Name: Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Country: India

Year: 2021
Volume: Volume-8, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 25-27

Abstract
The impact of Covid-19 pandemic is also seen in the Indian stock markets similar in the lines of
global indexes. The country went into a complete lockdown for almost a period of 3 months which
has taken a toll on various economic activities. The significance downfall in the Nifty and Sensex reel
the investors from March, 2020 i.e. in the initial period of lockdown announced by the Govt. of India.
Similarly the bounce back to pre-covid levels has left many investors in ambiguity. It indicates that
the markets are not predicting what will happen. Many discussions and articles talks about what could
be a possible explanation to the path markets followed since the announcement of lockdown in India.
The overall economy of India showing declining trend in the entire lockdown period. Indian stock
markets significantly improved after the different pre-opening phases announced by the
government. So the present research paper focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on Indian Stock
Market. In this paper, the analysis is made in terms of market turnover and growth of share market.
Keywords: Market capitalization, Covid-19, Nifty, Sensex, Stock Markets