Foreign institutional investors and Indian stock market reforms

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) play an important role in Indian stock market. Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) gave a lot of stock market reforms after the year 2000. These reforms affected the FIIs to a large extent. I include the stock market reforms which were directly related to FIIs. These reforms were, the increased limit of investment up to 100% in tourism, highways etc., get permission to invest in debt and government securities up to a certain limit, internet trading, get permission for short selling according to the rule of SEBI, ban on carried forward transactions etc. The author show the effect of these stock market reforms on FIIs with the help of increased trend of investment in foreign institutional investment, increased no. of SEBI registered FIIs etc. Finally these reforms have positive effect on FIIs.