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Posted on 08 March 2011
Hi Hetal,
FDI up to 100 per cent is allowed under the automatic route in all activities/sectors except where the provisions of the consolidated FDI Policy, paragraph on 'Entry Routes for Investment' issued by the Government of India from time to time, are attracted.
FDI is prohibited under the Government Route as well as the Automatic Route in the following sectors:
i) Retail Trading (except single brand product retailing)
ii) Atomic Energy
iii) Lottery Business
iv) Gambling and Betting
v) Business of Chit Fund
vi) Nidhi Company
vii) Agricultural (excluding Floriculture, Horticulture, Development of seeds, Animal Husbandry, Pisciculture and cultivation of vegetables, mushrooms, etc. under controlled conditions and services related to agro and allied sectors) and Plantations activities (other than Tea Plantations)
viii) Housing and Real Estate business (except development of townships, construction of residential/commercial premises, roads or bridges to the extent specified in Notification No. FEMA 136/2005-RB dated July 19, 2005).
ix) Trading in Transferable Development Rights (TDRs).
x ) Manufacture of cigars , cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes , of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.
Regards
Jaideep Pandya