From the archive record
Office building of the one week old National Stock Exchange in Bombay, 1992. A much younger Dr Ramachandra H Patil talks to an interviewer after a week of the opening of NSE on the founding of the National Stock Exchange or NSE. He is known as as a driving force in the changing face of stock exchange and capital markets in India. In the interview he talks about the NSE and using technology to bring stocks to the offices of stock brokers, technology fro more efficient capital exchange. Note the old CRT monitor on Mr. Patil's desk, with his computer. RH Patil: For quite some time the government wanted to form a capital market and bring them in line with the international capital markets. So that needed modernisation of the stock exchanges. Government was doing it through its own instructions