Government of India Reforms 100% FDI
The Indian government launched a second wave of
FDI reform allowing 100% inflows in civil aviation, e-commerce and food
processing sectors. New window of opportunity has been opened for multiple
sectors like pharmaceuticals, retail, aviation, defense, food, private
security. Now, these sector's will be completely open for foreign ownership.
This step will attract investments from global corporation. Now,
most of the sectors will be under direct approval route, except few listed. PM
Modi Tweeted on 20th June 2016 that "India is most
open market in the world for FDI".
PM also tweeted, "This is 2nd major reform after the last
radical changes announced in Nov 2015"
At present in India as per FDI regime permits foreign companies to
have only 49% of equity share. But, after this step Foreign Investment will go
beyond 49%.
The FDI inflow in India has increased by astounding amount of
$55.46 Billion in year 2015-16 as compared to year 2013-14 it was around $36.04
Billion.
Reforms in Startups
With 100% FDI, startups can seek for more keen investors, this
step will boost small scale business and startups. Hence, we will see rise in
entrepreneurs in the near future, and more jobs will be created. Rate of
increase in employment will rise which will indeed improve Indian economy.
Reforms in Aviation
Indian aviation market is growing with growth rate of 21%, which
is the fastest growth rate in the world. With current growth rate, India has
potential of becoming one of the largest aviation market in the world.
The National Civil Aviation Policy will promote regional
connectivity, thus it will help in economy growth of tear 2-3 cities of India,
New regime in FDI will cause major improvements in the Indian economy.
Reforms in Defense
India's estimated budget for defense for year 2016-17 is about Rs
3.4 trillion, with this budget India can buy state of the art equipment for
defense. India is the biggest importers of arms and ammunition in
the world. India imports more than 60% of its defense equipment form
developed European countries. With this step India will start manufacturing Defense equipment in
India. Arms manufactures will directly invest in India.
Reforms in Pharmaceutical
For the development of pharmaceutical sectors,
Government of India (BJP) has increased FDI limit to 74% under FDI automatic route in
pharmaceutical ventures.
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