NSE,‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ J&K Government Sign MoU To Boost SME Fundraising Through NSE Emerge

November 28, 2025: National Stock Exchange of India and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir have entered into a strategic collaboration by signing an agreement. The project aims at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the Union Territory to raise capital through a public issue on the NSE Emerge platform which is the exchange’s SME platform.

Strategic Push To Empower MSMEs

The agreement is based on the concept of increasing the awareness and readiness levels of MSMEs so that they can use public markets as a source of growth capital. It is mentioned in the document that the MoU was exchanged in Jammu and the date of the exchange was November 24, 2025. Senior government officials and NSE leadership were present during the moment of the MoU exchange.

The partnership of J&K and NSE gets considerably rejuvenated with the help of the new breath that through their actions and hands, they will collectively produce quite a number of materials that timely, reliably and insightfully reflect the partnership. Organising seminars, roadshows, workshops, MSME camps, and knowledge sessions will be among the ways they will guide businesses about the listing process and its advantages in the Union Territory.

Government’s Commitment To MSME Growth

Vikramjit Singh, Secretary, Industries and Commerce, was pointing out that the administration is like a tireless worker who never stops working for the eco-system that supports local enterprises. They have also recognized that the collaboration is like a global passport for MSMEs which opens up the world of investment to them and thus will allow them to take off at an accelerated rate by using public capital markets.

They are basically putting the spotlight on the following point: What the NSE Emerge platform tries to do is to offer SMEs more visibility, credibility, and better access to capital.

NSE’s Outreach Plans

According to Sriram Krishnan, Chief Business Development Officer at NSE, the stock market has a plan to work closely with the government of Jammu and Kashmir and as a result of this cooperation, there will be a better understanding of IPO and listing awareness among MSMEs which will lead to their easy acceptance. Moreover, he said that a company could raise money very fast through the NSE Emerge platform and at the same time; its position in the market will be strengthened by a formal listing.

NSE Emerge: Growing Base of Listed Companies

On the day of this press release, there are 690 companies from different fields listed on the NSE Emerge platform with a combined capital raise of more than Rs 20,759 crores and a total market capitalisation that is close to Rs 2 lakh crores. Such figures emphasize the increasing role of public listings for SMEs in the Indian capital markets.

NSE is the leading stock exchange with the highest turnover in India. Besides, it is the first to implement a fully screen-based trading system in 1994. NSE provides a fully integrated market infrastructure ecosystem in different areas: from listing, trading, clearing, settlement, indices, data services, technology solutions to financial education. The exchange was also the largest derivatives market globally by trading volume in 2024, and second globally in terms of equity trades based on electronic order book ‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌data.

REF: https://nsearchives.nseindia.com//web/pressrelease/2025-11/PR_cc_27112025_20251127165250.pdf

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