{"id":3320,"date":"2021-12-24T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myicfo.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2021-12-26T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T08:31:48","slug":"foreign-direct-investment-fdi-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myicfo.com\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3320\" class=\"elementor elementor-3320\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f491dbf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f491dbf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-14dca431\" data-id=\"14dca431\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e93fa07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e93fa07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>FDI&nbsp;or Foreign Direct Investments is an investment in the form of controlled ownership in a business in another country. There are two routes by which India gets&nbsp;FDI. 1. Automatic route: By this route,&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;is allowed without prior approval by Government or RBI but subject to applicable laws\/regulations 2. Government route: Prior approval by the government is needed via this route. Some sectors have caps on&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details on&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;are available in the&nbsp;DPIIT&nbsp;(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) website (see Links) which is operated by the Commerce Department of the Government of India. To promote &#8216;Make in India&#8217; the government has recently made the&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;policy more investor-friendly, under which&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;up to 100% is permitted under the automatic route in most sectors\/activities. Specific projects, across sectors and states in India, mainly in the nature of infrastructure have been identified for investment opportunities by&nbsp;NRI&nbsp;and foreign entities. Details such as the project status, cost estimate, mode of funding desired and the contact person have been specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;policy recognizes various types of investors: Non Resident Indian (NRIs)), Person of Indian Origin (PIO), Foreign Venture Capital Investor (FVCI), Foreign Institutional Investor (FII), Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI),Qualified&nbsp;Financial Investor (QFI)&nbsp;,&nbsp;Overseas Corporate Bodies (OCB), Pension\/Provident Fund, Financial Institutions, Foreign Trust, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Private Equity Funds, Partnership \/ Proprietorship Firm, Others. Each investment option provides features, benefits, and regulatory requirements. In India, the regulatory bodies are mainly the&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;policy, RBI,&nbsp;SEBI,&nbsp;FEMA&nbsp;and other relevant bodies based on investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India recently made a change to the foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations aimed at preventing the opportunistic takeover of Indian firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier, only investments from Pakistan and Bangladesh required the Indian government\u2019s approval for security reasons. An order issued by the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) on April 17, without naming China, said the scope of this policy had been widened to cover all neighboring countries that share a border with India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refer government site for FDI policy details and updates &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dipp.gov.in\/policies-rules-and-acts\/policies\/foreign-direct-investment-policy\">https:\/\/dipp.gov.in\/policies-rules-and-acts\/policies\/foreign-direct-investment-policy<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDI&nbsp;or Foreign Direct Investments is an investment in the form of controlled ownership in a business in another country. There are two routes by which India gets&nbsp;FDI. 1. Automatic route: By this route,&nbsp;FDI&nbsp;is allowed without prior approval by Government or RBI but subject to applicable laws\/regulations 2. 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