FinMin to prepare draft Cabinet note on raising FDI cap in insuarnce

24 Aug 2012 Evaluate

The finance ministry is planning to prepare a draft Cabinet note for the second time, on raising the limit on foreign direct investment (FDI) in private insurance companies from the present 26% to 49%. A draft note will be circulated to the concerned ministries, and a final note will be prepared only after their feedback.

Earlier on May 10, even the revised version of the insurance Bill, which proposed maintaining FDI limit at the current 26% and changing certain minor provisions, was deferred at the Cabinet meeting. After which the finance ministry under Pranab Mukherjee wrote to the Cabinet secretariat to take up the matter again with an altered clause that FDI cap would be raised to 49%. However, with P Chidambaram taking charge of the finance ministry, the draft Cabinet note will now be prepared again.

The proposal for raising the FDI cap had been taken by Chidambaram in his first Budget in the UPA-I in 2004. However, the Bill could not be tabled in Parliament since the Left parties, which supported the ruling coalition at that time, were opposed to it.

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