Mumbai, Jan. 30 -- Ashish Kumar Chauhan, Managing Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), on Friday highlighted the role of NSE in India's growth journey, and called upon overseas businesses to come and invest in the country as "India's time has come."

While addressing the business community in Mumbai, Chauhan said, "With over 12.5 crore investors, NSE's investor base would rank among the world's top 10 countries by population if it were a nation. NSE now enables even smaller enterprises to raise capital, giving entrepreneurs access to markets that were previously out of reach."

"One-third of India's economic value is reflected in the NSE," Chauhan said, urging business leaders and entrepreneurs to tap into capit...