The commerce and industry ministry’s latest data has showed that foreign direct investment (FDI) into India grew 15% to $26 billion during the first half of the current financial year (H1FY20) as compared to $22.66 billion during April-September of 2018-19, despite a slowdown in the global economy. FDI is important as the country requires major investments to overhaul its infrastructure sector to boost growth.
As per the data, sectors, which attracted maximum foreign inflows during April-September 2019-20, include services ($4.45 billion), computer software and hardware ($4 billion), telecommunications ($4.28 billion), automobile ($2.13 billion) and trading ($2.14 billion). Singapore continued to be the largest source of FDI in India during the H1FY20 with $8 billion investments. It was followed by Mauritius ($6.36 billion), the US ($2.15 billion), the Netherlands ($2.32 billion), and Japan ($1.78 billion).
Recently, the government had relaxed foreign investment norms in sectors such as brand retail trading, coal mining and contract manufacturing. Enthused by a record foreign investment inflow, India is optimistic of continuing to be one of the world's favourite FDI destinations in 2020 on the back of government's liberalised norms and a significant jump in the ease of doing business ranking.
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