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COVER STORY | Economy

FDI appeal increased due to the ease of doing business
To increase investment in India, the central government allowed foreign direct investment, i.e., FDI, in
many such sectors after 2014, which were previously away from it, but had immense possibilities. With
the campaign of Make in India, Make for the World, the relaxation of rules for up to 100 percent FDI in
most of the sectors overhauled the manufacturing sector of India.

The top three FDI inflow in India FDI growth in the last 11 years
countries
investing in India Increase 36.05
Billion dollars Billion dollars 14% 81.04 Billion dollars

30% 17% 11% 143% Increase Billion dollars 71.28
(Provisional)
Singapore Mauritius US 308.38 748.78 Billion dollars

112 countries are now 2003-14 2014-25
n n In the last 25 years, FDI
making FDI in India, in worth 1072 billion dollars FY 2013-14
2013-14, only 89 countries came to India, of which 70% FY 2023-24
were included in this list. came in the last 11 years. FY 2024-25

India’s growing foreign exchange reserves Foreign Exchange n The Reserve Bank of India
Reserves more than had 854.73 metric tonnes of
doubled in 11 years gold at the end of September

2024, of which 510.46 metric
tonnes are held domestically.
477.81 576.98 607.30 578.45 646.41 691.48 (in billion dollars) n The European Free Trade

Association (EFTA) countries
March 2020 March 2021 March 2022 March 2023 March 2024 30 May 2025 312.38 691.48 have committed to $100
billion of foreign direct
investment over the next 15

translate into an investment
n With $691 billion, India has the fourth-largest 30 May 2014 30 May 2025 years. This is expected to
foreign exchange reserves in the world. of $500 billion.

of about 12.5 percent, which is the highest rate has always been dependent on imports for the
in the world. In 2025, it reached a historical level semiconductor chips used in every electronic
of about Rs 83 lakh crore. With a contribution of product in the world. But now, for the first time
about 17 percent to the GDP, this sector is also through the Semiconductor Mission, the central
helpful in job creation. government has focused on its manufacturing
Along with job creation, the central in India itself. Under the dynamic leadership of
government also focused on those sectors of Prime Minister Modi, India has also emerged as
manufacturing that were never even thought a preferred investment destination. GST, IBC,
of before. Semiconductor manufacturing is the continuous improvement in FDI regime, ease of
most recent and correct example of this. India doing business, reduction in compliances, and

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