Awards & Recognition

Awards & Recognition

As part of a financial awareness programme organised by the Bombay Stock Exchange, I conducted two-week programmes for two months for individuals.

Some of the notables are:

• I trained 450 engineering students on financial markets, and 282 of them appeared for the BCFM exam conducted by BSE and 232 cleared it. This is considered to be a good yardstick by the BSE.
• Using games designed by a German NGO, I trained 8th and 9th standard students in three schools in and around Madurai on the importance of finance. Besides that, I conducted a financial quiz for 600 students from 13 schools and picked 60 from them and eventually chose four for a cash prize.
• I used games to train women of Self-Help Groups for three days in personal finance, with a test of their knowledge and skill before and after the programme.
• Many of them said they wished they had known this information before as it would have radically changed their lives for the better.
• For the success of the programme, BSE felicitated me with a shield. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was unable to be present there at the last minute and deputed his son, Karthi Chidambaram to hand over the award to me.

After seeing the success of the programme, BSE has now decided to roll out financial literacy programmes through games across India.

The persons in dais are BSE CEO,BSE training CEO and BSE training GM and Mr Karthi Chidambaram.