Meghalaya has emerged among the states with the lowest participation in India’s securities market, with just 4.2% of households invested in financial products such as mutual funds, shares, or bonds—less than half the national average of 9.5%, according to the SEBI Investor Survey 2025.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), along with the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) and the Market Infrastructure Institutions (NSE, BSE, NSDL, and CDSL), commissioned the survey, one of the largest household studies of its kind.

Conducted by Kantar, it covered more than 90,000 households across 400 cities and 1,000 villages, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to capture insights from investors, non-investors, lapsers, intenders, and intermediaries.

In the Northeast,

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