Sebi chief Ajay Tyagi scores big in first 100 days

Under his leadership, Sebi has passed several orders that have been pending for more than a decade

From new fundraising instruments like municipal bonds and infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) to passing orders in long-pending matters like the Reliance Industries ‘unlawful gain’s case, Ajay Tyagi, chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has made some right moves in his first 100 days in office.

He took charge from predecessor U K Sinha on March 1. The senior bureaucrat couldn’t have entered the stock market fray at a more opportune time, with shares climbing to record highs, investor flows into mutual funds at new levels and buoyancy in the Initial Public Offer market.

In less than a month,