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Pricing of Convertible instruments. Issue of Shares permitted against specified non-cash considerations under Approval Route. Approval / conditionalities surrounding previous joint venture/collaborations done away with. Guidelines relating to Down-Stream investments. Sector Specific policy for FDI- Agriculture. The revised FDI policy does carry the process of liberalization further and would assist in augmenting FDI into the Country. However, the revised FDI policy has kept at bay significantly expected changes such as permitting FDI in Limited Liability Partnership, Multi-Brand Retail Trading and several other subjects on which draft discussion papers were released earlier for public comments. It is important that these areas are also taken up the Government for liberalisation towards making India one of the most favourable FDI destinations in the world.
“ICICI is an Indian bank, but it is over 50 per cent (equity) foreign owned, it is owned by foreigners in that sense…for downstream investment it is a foreign company…,” Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Secretary R P Singh told reporters here.The government today said that ICICI Bank and other lenders whose more than 50 per cent equity is owned by overseas entities will be treated as a foreign company for the purpose of computing FDI.
India Thursday announced an updated foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that simplifies joint venture norms and opens up new areas for overseas funds. The updated policy allows overseas firms in existing joint ventures to operate separately in the same business segment. Earlier, they needed prior approval from their Indian partners. ” FDI policy is part of ongoing efforts of procedure simplification and foreign direct investment rationalisation, which will go a long way in inspiring investor confidence,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said in a statement.
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today announced in his Budget Speech that discussions are underway to further liberalize the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy. All prior regulations and guidelines have earlier been consolidated into one comprehensive document in order to make FDI policy more user friendly. This is reviewed every six months, said the Finance Minister. The last review was released in September 2010.
The advance estimates (AE) of the Economic Survey 2010-11 put the growth rate of the services sector at 9.6 per cent. This is despite global deceleration in the sector. The sector had registered 10.1 per cent growth in 2009-10.
To attract foreign manufacturers to invest in India, a group of ministers is considering a proposal to raise Foreign Direct Investment limit in the defence sector to 49 per cent from the current 26 per cent.The Defence Ministry today said the proposal mooted by the Commerce Ministry would also help the domestic industry to grow.
The Reserve Bank today said efforts should be made to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the country, as they are more stable than portfolio investments. These remarks come a day after the central bank said that environment-sensitive pol
The British government is hopeful that the three-year old dispute of Vodafone’s joint venture in India involving a tax claim of over Rs.11,000 crore ($2.5 billion) will be settled amicably, a British official said Wednesday. ‘Vodafone is one of th
Based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) in its meeting held on December 31, 2011, Government has approved 19 Proposals of Foreign Direct Investment amounting to `Rs. 4340.77 crore approximately.
Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), which is mandated to consider and recommend proposals relating to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) under the government route in terms of extant FDI policy held 14 meetings during the calendar year.
