IEPFA, Investor Awareness and Protection Fund Authority recently concluded its first conference in Srinagar in collaboration with its field office.
The event was themed as Investor Awareness Protection and Financial Literacy.
This was first high profile event in which MoS Corporate Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh was the chief guest and Member Parliament, Dr Farooq Abdullah was guest of the honour.
Several senior Government officers participated and organised the event.
CEO IEPFA and Joint Secretary in the Government of India, Anita Shah Akella conceptualised the venue and successfully concluded the event in Srinagar. It was learnt that this event was her first large scale Program as CEO of IEPFA. Also the key incharge of the Ministry’s affairs in Kashmir, Haamid Bukhari managed the processes on the ground and his efforts were lauded by higher authorities of the ministry for successfully conducting this grand event.
This event achieved first of its kind success and has set new precedents in several ways; it witnessed a participation of more than 700 delegates cutting across the professions saturating the hall to full of its capacity. Business pressure groups like PHDCCI, KCCI, FICCI, members of professional institutions like ICAI & ICSI were present in addition to officials of CRPF, Indian Postal Payment banks & officers from the UT government of J&K.
Enthusiastic students from schools located in far away places participated in the event with full of their energy like Students of Ummar Public School, Malangam Bandipora inaugurated the event along with MoS Inderjit Singh Rao by flagging off the vans that carried the message of investor awareness & financial literacy.
Similarly the Self Help Groups, members of Panchayati Raj Institutions, craftsmen and women were part of the delegates to take back the message so as to enable them to spread the awareness in rural areas about safe and secure financial instruments to invest in.
This was the maidan event and such 75 more events would be conducted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs in Kashmir valley in coming days.
The event in the auditorium was followed by plays and nukad natak in the lawns of SKICC at the banks of Dal Lake.
