FDI inflow News

Under the PLI scheme for Bulk Drugs, a total of 48 projects have been selected under the scheme, of which 34 projects have been commissioned for 25 bulk drugs as of December 2024. 

The FDI inflow in 2020-21 was USD 81.72 billion compared to USD 74.9 billion in the preceding financial year. She said the government did not resort to taxes for resource mobilisation and no tax was increased to fund the economic recovery. Sitharaman also highlighted that the war between Russia and Ukraine is affecting all countries like the pandemic had.

In calendar year 2021, the FDI inflow decreased by 15 per cent as compared to calendar year 2020. To promote FDI, the Government has put in place an investor-friendly policy.

The foreign direct investments (FDI) into India have nearly doubled over the past decade to USD 42 billion, which was 1.9 per cent of GDP in 2016-17.

India receives maximum FDI from Singapore, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Japan.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India during April-June this year increased by 40 percent at Rs 60,299 crore as against Rs.43,171 crore in the same period of 2014, according to official data.

During the April-December period of current fiscal, FDI rose by 27 per cent to USD 21.04 billion as against USD 16.56 billion in the same period last fiscal, the data by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion showed.

Net FDI inflows into India totalled USD 14.1 billion in the first five months of 2014-15.