50 FDI proposals on FIPB’s agenda this week

15 Oct 2012 Evaluate

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) is mulling to clear about 50 FDI proposals including those of Larsen & Toubro and Mahindra Group at its meeting on October 19, 2012. In the last meeting, the FIPB had approved 14 proposals of FDI total to Rs 113.35 crore. The FIPB’s green signal to various FDI proposals is the renewed efforts by the government to attract private investments.

According to the scheme, out of the total 49 proposals, 16 are fresh and 19 are those on which decisions were deferred in the previous meetings of the Board. The 6 proposals include those of Mahindra and Mahindra and Larsen & Toubro which relate to defence production and 3 to the telecommunications sector. As India permits FDI in most of the segments through automatic route, the FIPB clears those proposals which are related to sensitive sectors like defence and telecom.

In recent times, the government liberalized its FDI policy in the multi-brand retail and aviation sector. In addition to that the government would be seeking Parliament’s approval to raise foreign investment upper limit in the insurance sector to 49% from 26%.

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