Today, the in-hand salary you receive is not the only mode of payment corporations use. They use various ways to incentivise your work and stay ahead of the competition. One of these modes includes a long-term incentive known as the Employee Stock Option Plan.

The Nifty 50 is a benchmark Indian stock market index that represents the weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). It is one of the two national indices tracked by investors in India, the other being Sensex.

To correctly understand how share market works in India, it is important to know about the participants in the share market. The Stock Exchange Board of India (SEBI), stock exchanges, publicly listed companies, traders, investors, brokers—they are all participants in the share market.