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The government is likely to subject all investments in sectors closed to foreign investments to greater scrutiny through a new oversight body to ensure that foreign capital does not slip into these sectors undetected. There have been allegations that under the new foreign direct investment policy overseas investments could be routed into the sectors closed to such investments. The prohibited sectors include multi-brand retail, gambling, betting, lottery, atomic energy and plantation.
The government notified the ban on FDI in cigarette manufacturing. The decision was taken by the Union Cabinet on April 8. “Manufacturing of cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes” have been put under the list of sectors where FDI is prohibited.
The Government has said that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is the Regulator for Chartered Accountancy profession in India and it is collecting information whether top multi-national firms have flouted norms to provide services in the country. Giving this information in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, the Minsiter for Corporate Affairs, Shri Salman Khurshid told the House that as far as the functioning of multinational accounting firms is concerned the Ministry has collected the following information from the relevant Central Govt. Departments:
Attention of the Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident Outside India) Regulations, 2000, notified vide Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time.
India today said it would next month initiate discussion on liberalising Foreign Direct Investment in sectors ranging from defence to agriculture and even retail — a source of political woes for the government in the past. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the nodal agency for framing FDI policies, will come out with six discussion papers in mid-May on overseas investment norms.
The government plans to plug loopholes in investment of foreign equity from a single source into one company through multiple routes. Currently, different agencies monitor the foreign investment flow, leading to policy overlaps and violations.
The government plans to tighten investment norms for non-resident Indians (NRI) in companies to ensure that they do not violate foreign direct investment (FDI) sectoral caps or enter areas where such investment is banned. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also mooted a proposal to withdraw the special status given to NRIs for investing in sectors such as aviation, housing and real estate.
Under the current regulations, an application from a foreign entity to establish BO / LO in India is considered on the basis of the following Basic criteria: If principal business of the foreign entity falls under sectors where 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) is permissible under the automatic route.
The Committee of Secretaries (CoS) set up to formulate changes in the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in sensitive sectors that are now under the automatic approval route has added a rider subjecting them to post-investment surveillance.
The government is planning to tighten norms governing FDI through partly-paid shares, convertible warrants and units issued by venture capital funds (VCFs), as it looks to prevent misuse of these popular instruments. The finance ministry and the department of industrial policy & promotion (DIPP) have decided that the conditions such as sectoral ceilings, minimum-capitalisation and lock-in period governing foreign investment through equity should be applicable to these instruments. The two sides held consultations following an increase in the quantum of FDI flowing through these windows.
