With an aim to improve the ease of doing business and boost foreign investments, the government has aligned the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy with the upgraded National Industrial Classification (NIC) Code which will classify business activities and help the industry in seeking policy approvals for specific activities.
The World Bank has placed India at 142 rank among 189 countries in its latest 'Ease of Doing Business' report, a drop by two places from the last year's ranking. The report assigned 53.97 points to India as compared to 52.78 points in the previous report. World Bank highlighted that drop in India's ranking from last year's 140 is mainly because other nations have performed much better.
Meanwhile, foreign direct investment (FDI) in India during the April-October FY15 grew by 25% to $17.35 billion from $13.82 billion recorded in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. During FY14, FDI increased by 8% to $24.29 billion from $22.42 billion recorded in the FY13. FDI is considered crucial for India, which requires around $1 trillion in the 12th five year plan (2012-2017) to overhaul its infrastructure sector such as ports, airports and highways to boost growth. However, to attract maximum FDI into the country, the government has been liberalizing the foreign investment policy. Recently, the government has eased the FDI norms in insurance sector. The government is of the view that hiking of the foreign investment cap in the insurance sector to 49 per cent will result in capital inflow of $6-8 billion. Besides, the government’s 'Make in India' programme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is another big-ticket reform that the government expects the foreign investors to bring FDI worth billions of dollars into the country.
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