India's FDI regime is most liberal in the world: NITI Aayog CEO

10 Aug 2020 Evaluate

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said India's foreign direct investment (FDI) regime is the most liberal in the world, and even during the Covid-19 pandemic, the country has attracted over $22 billion worth of direct investments. He further said that almost 90 per cent plus of the $22 billion FDI in India during the pandemic came through the automatic route. 

He pointed out that India has jumped up about 79 positions in the World Bank's ease of doing business. He mentioned ‘our hope is that this year we will get into top 50.’

Besides, he said that if India wants to transform then it needs a programme like aspirational district programme. Aspirational districts programme, launched in January 2018, aims to transform 112 districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas and have emerged as pockets of under-development.

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