Abstract:  Covid-19 is a global pandemic, started from China and spread all over of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) declares Covid-19 epidemic as global pandemic on 11 of March 2020.Covid-19 outbreak affect the all spare of life all over the world. The pandemic effect economic as well as social life of the human beings. The stock market is popularly called as barometer of an economy and the economy like India also affected by the Covid-19.The sole purpose of this paper is to study the impact of Covid-19 on Indian stock market specifically Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is one of the best and systematic stock exchanges of the world. It is the most modern stock exchange of India. So, BSE is selected for the purpose of the study. The Covid-19 lockdown lead to sentiment in the stock markets across the word is gloomy. It has been reflected in the frequent crashes in the share markets in all parts of the world. Financial markets in India are witnessed sharp volatility in stock market indices due to fall in line with the global benchmark indices as the domestic market usually tracks the major global indices and the high volatility in likely to continue. In India BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) is considered as oldest stock exchange and Sensex is its Major index. In this study attempt is made to identify the impact of covid-19 lockdown on Sensex and its selected sub-indices. Time period of this study is selected as before lockdown two months and after lockdown two month has been selected. For identification of impact paired t-test has been used as statistical tool. The major finding of the study indicated as significant negative impact of covid-19 lockdown is recorded on Sensex and its sub-indices. The Study is based on secondary data purely. The study used simple statistical tools like percentage and average to check the performance of selected indices during and before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Covid-19, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE),Sensex.