Finance Ministry to consider 25 FDI proposals on January 20

10 Jan 2012 Evaluate

The Ministry of Finance will consider 25 proposals including that of Ashok Leyland Defence Systems for overseas investment at the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) meeting to be held on January 20. Proposals of Tata AutoComp GY Batteries and Singapore-based Amazon Asia-Pacific Resources are also on the agenda in the FIPB meeting headed by Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan, .

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is allowed via automatic route in most of the sectors and activities, but FIPB nod is required if the project exceeds Rs 1,200 crore. Further, applications for FDI in sensitive sectors, like telecom and defence also require a prior approval of the Board.

In the last meeting, the Board had cleared 18 proposals envisaging FDI of about Rs 2,126 crore.Whereas, in the January-October period this fiscal, foreign investment in the country surged by 36% to $23.68 billion.

Moreover, proposals of Italy-based Canali Holding, Timex Garments, Fluke South East Asia Pte, Deltronix India, Zipcash Card Services, JT International India, and Cigniti Technologies are on the list of items of the FIPB. Jeevan Telecasting Corporation is also seeking the Board's approval for initiation of foreign investment to carry out up-linking of news and current affairs channel.

This is FIPB’s 173rd meeting to be held on January 20 and will be attended by officials from various ministries, like Home Affairs, Information & Broadcasting and Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).

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