Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Prohibition on investment in India


Investment in the form of FDIis prohibited in the following sectors.

a.    Retail Trading (except single brand product retailing)
b.   Atomic Energy
c.    Lottery Business including Government / private lottery, online lotteries, etc.
d.   Gambling and Betting including casinos, etc
e.    Business of chit fund
f.     Nidhi company
g.    (c) Agricultural or plantation activities, or
h.   (d) Real estate business, or construction of farm houses, or
i.     Trading in Transferable Development Rights(TDRs)
j.     Agriculture (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 (other than Tea Plantations)
k.   Manufacturing of Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.

“Real estate business” does not include development of townships, construction of residential / commercial premises, roads or bridges, educational institutions, recreational facilities, city and regional level infrastructure, townships.

Partnership firms /proprietorship concerns having investments as per FEMA regulations are not allowed to engage in print media sector.


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