Who Can Participate?
- Open to all college students, young professionals, creators, and passionate individuals
A well-informed investor is a well-protected investor. As part of its mandate to protect investors and promote financial literacy, SEBI introduces the SEBI Arth Yatra Contest 2025 — a unique platform for citizens to creatively present key messages about investing wisely, understanding rights, and avoiding scams. The contest invites you to create and share short videos (30–60 seconds) or static posts based on one or more of these themes:
1. Invest Responsibly, Prosper Wisely – Smart, disciplined, long-term investing.
2. Initiatives to Empower Investors – Highlighting SEBI’s initiatives for safer, simpler investing.
3. Bust the Scam – Alerting investors to fraudulent practices and how to avoid them.
Three themes. One mission — to inspire, empower, and protect investors.
Submit your Entry!Once you have uploaded your short video (30–60 seconds) or static post on your public social media profile (X, Instagram, or YouTube), make sure to:
1. Tag SEBI (@sebi_india on X, @sebi_india_official on Instagram and @SEBI_India_Official on YouTube) and NISM official handles (@NISM_Official on X, @nism_official on Instagram and @NISMAcademy on Youtube).
2. Use the hashtag #SEBIArthYatraContest2025.
3. Add the mandatory disclaimer:
"This is an entry for the contest and views are personal. This has not been approved or verified by SEBI."
Then, fill out the submission form with your details and the link to your post.
For more details contact SEBI Toll Helpline : 1800 266 7575
*The toll free helpline service is available on all days from 9:00 A.M to 6:00 P.M(excluding declared holidays)
It is a nationwide creative expression contest launched by SEBI in collaboration with NISM to encourage citizens to create short videos (30–60 seconds) or static posts on investor awareness themes.
The contest is part of SEBI’s mandate to promote investor education and awareness. It aims to encourage creativity in communicating responsible investing, investor-friendly initiatives, and scam awareness.
Any Indian citizen can participate. There are no age restrictions and no entry fees.
Participants may submit entries in one or both categories.
To know more about these themes, refer to the concept paper.
Yes. Participants may submit one or more entries across one or multiple themes.
Yes. A participant can submit more than one entry (short video or static post) across different platforms.
Only X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube are permitted.
Entries may be created in multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, English, Odia, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Malayalam, Punjabi and Assamese.
Yes. Your social media profile must be public so likes, views, and engagement can be verified.
For each segment (video/post) and each language category:
Since prizes are awarded separately for each language and each category, there will be multiple winners across India.
No. First, upload your entry on social media with the required tags/hashtags/disclaimer. Then, fill the Submission Form on the SEBI Investor Website.
Yes, but to qualify for prizes, your video must get 10,000+ views or your static post must get 5,000+ likes.
Your entry will still be part of the contest but will not be considered for prizes.
By submitting an entry, participants hereby grant SEBI full rights, including ownership, to use, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, and display the content in any format or medium, as deemed fit by SEBI. No consent, credit, or compensation shall be required in such case.
Yes. SEBI may disqualify entries for plagiarism, rule violations, offensive/misleading content, or failure to meet contest guidelines.
Results will be declared on the SEBI Investor Website and SEBI/NISM social media handles.
Winners must submit identity proof (e.g., masked Aadhaar or driving license) to claim their prize./p>
Visit the SEBI Investor Website – https://investor.sebi.gov.in/events.html for updates, guidelines, and submission forms.