Line chart showing decline in share of top ten districts in terms of individual investors trading in the cash segment of the stock market. It fell from an average of 43.1 per cent in the last three months of 2019 to a low of 37.1 per cent in March 2021. Their share has since risen higher than pre-pandemic levels to 44.9 per cent.
Data for October 2020 was unavailable. The first Covid-19 case in India was in January 2020. The preceding three months' average share of top ten districts has been given here (labelled 'Dec-19') for a pre-pandemic comparison.