Foreign Direct Investment

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Agriculture & Animal Husbandry only in specified areas

100%

Automatic

2

Tea Plantation

100%

Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% and up to 100%

Sr No

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Mining of metal
and non-metal ores

100%

Automatic

2

Coal & Lignite mining for captive
consumption by power projects, iron
& steel and cement units

100%

Automatic

3

Setting up coal processing plants
like washeries subject to the
condition

100%

Automatic

4

Mining and mineral separation of titanium bearing minerals and ores, its
value addition and integrated activities

100%

Government

5

Petroleum & Natural Gas Exploration activities of oil and natural gas fields, infrastructure related to marketing of petroleum products and natural gas, marketing of natural gas and petroleum products, petroleum product  pipelines, natural gas/pipelines, LNG Regasification infrastructure, market
study and formulation and Petroleum refining in the private sector.

100%

Automatic

6

Petroleum refining by the Public  Sector Undertakings (PSU), without  any disinvestment or dilution of  domestic equity in the existing PSUs

49%

Automatic

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Manufacture of items reserved for production in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)

As per secrtorial cap

-

2

Defence Industry subject to Industrial license under the Industries
(Development & Regulation) Act 1951

26%

Upto 26% Government, Above 26% - Cabinet Committee on Security approval

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Broadcasting Carriage Services Teleports setting up of uplinking HUBs/ Teleports, DTH

74%

Automatic upto 74%

2

Broadcasting Carriage Services Cable Networks (Multi System operators (MSOs) operating at
National or State or District level and undertaking upgradation of networks towards digitalization and
addressability)

49%

Government route beyond 49% and up to
74%

3

Cable Networks (Other MSOs not undertaking upgradation of networks
towards digitalization and addressability and Local Cable Operators (LCOs)

49%

Automatic

4

Terrestrial Broadcasting FM (FM Radio)

26%

Government

5

Up-linking of ‘News & Current Affairs’ TV Channels

26%

Government

6

Up-linking of Non-‘News & Current Affairs’ TV Channels/
Down-linking of TV Channels

100%

Government

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Publishing of Newspaper and periodicals dealing with news and current affairs

26%

Government

2

Publication of Indian editions of foreign magazines dealing with news and current affairs

26%

Government

3

Publishing/printing of Scientific and TechnicalMagazines/specialty journals/ periodicals

100%

Government

4

Publication of facsimile edition of foreign newspapers

100%

Government

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Airports - Greenfeild projects

100%

Automatic

2

Airports - Existing projects

100%

Automatic up
to 74% , Government
route beyond 74%

3

Air Transport Services - Scheduled Air Transport Service/
Domestic Scheduled Passenger Airline

49% FDI
(100% for NRIs)

Automatic

4

Non-Scheduled Air Transport Service

74% FDI
(100% for NRIs)

Automatic up to 49%
Government route
beyond 49% and up to
74%

5

Helicopter services/seaplane services requiring
DGCA approval

100%

Automatic

6

Ground Handling Services subject to sectoral regulations and security clearance

74% FDI
(100% for NRIs)

Automatic up
to 49% ,
Government
route beyond 49% and up to 74%

7

Maintenance and Repair organizations; flying training institutes; and technical training institutions

100%

Automatic

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Construction Development: Townships, Housing, Built-up infrastructure

100%

Automatic

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Industrial Parks – new and existing

100%

Automatic

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Telecom services (including Telecom infrastructure providers Cat - I)

100%

Automatic up to 49%

Government route
beyond 49% and up to
74%

2

(a) ISP with gateways
(b) ISP‟s not providing gateways i.e. without gate-ways (both for satellite and marine cables)
Note: The new guidelines of August 24, 2007 Department of Telecommunications provide for
new ISP licenses with FDI up to 74%
(c) Radio paging
(d) End-to-End bandwidth

74%

Automatic up
to 49%

Government
route beyond
49% and up to
74%

3

(a)  Infrastructure provider providing dark fibre, right of way, duct space, tower (IP Category I)
(b) Electronic Mail
(c)  Voice Mail

Note: Investment in all the above activities is subject to the conditions that such companies will divest 26% of their equity in favour of Indian  public in 5 years, if these companies are listed in other parts of the world

100%

Automatic up
to 49%

Government
route beyond
49%

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Cash & Carry Wholesale Trading/ Wholesale Trading (including sourcing from MSEs)

100%

Automatic

2

E-commerce activities

100%

Automatic

3

Single Brand product retail trading

100%

Automatic up to 49%

Government route
beyond 49% and up to
74%

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Satellites – Establishment and operation

74%

Government

2

Private Security Agencies

49%

Government

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Asset Reconstruction Companies

Upto 100% (FII+FDI)

Automatic up to 49%

Government route
beyond 49% and up to
74%

2

Banking Private Sector

74% including
investment by FIIs

Automatic up
to 49%

Government
route beyond
49% and up to
74%

3

Banking- Public Sector

20% (FDI and
Portfolio
Investment)

Government

4

Commodity Exchanges

100%

Automatic

5

Credit Information Companies (CIC)

74% (FDI + FII)

Automatic

6

Infrastructure Company in the Securities Market

100%

Automatic

7

Insurance

26%

Automatic

8

Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC)

100%

Automatic

Sector / Activity

% of FDI

Entry Route

1

Pharmaceuticals – Greenfeild

100%

Automatic

2

Pharmaceuticals – Brownfeild

100%

Government

3

Power Exchanges

100%

Automatic