Sector Wise Restrictions
The Government of India is focused on making India a Global hub for manufacturing activities. The following are some of the sectors where India has a lot of potential
| S. No. | Sector | Sectoral Cap | Entry Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agriculture & Animal Husbandry | 100% | Automatic |
| 2 | Plantation Sector | 100% | Automatic |
| 3 | Mining and Petroleum & Natural Gas Mining and Exploration of metal and non-metal ores Coal & Lignite Mining and mineral separation of titanium bearing minerals and ores, its value addition and integrated activities | 100% 100% 100% | Automatic Automatic Government |
| 4 | Petroleum & Natural Gas Exploration activities of oil and natural gas fields, infrastructure related to marketing of petroleum products and natural gas, marketing of natural gas and petroleum products. Petroleum refining by the Public Sector Undertakings (PSU), without any disinvestment or dilution of domestic equity in the existing PSUs | 100% 49% | Automatic Government |
| 5 | Defence | 100% | Automatic upto 49%* Now Revised to 74% |
| 6 | Broadcasting Carriage Services | 100% | Automatic |
| 7 | Broadcasting Content Services | 49% | Government |
| 8 | Print Media | 26% | Government |
| 9 | Civil Aviation | 100% | Automatic |
| 10 | Air Transport Services | 100% | Automatic subject to Govt. approval in some specific field |
| 11 | Construction Development: Townships, Housing, Built-up Infrastructure | 100% | Automatic |
| 12 | Private Security Agencies | 74% | Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% and up to 74% |
| 13 | Telecom Services | 100% | Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% |
| 14 | Trading Cash & Carry Wholesale Trading/Wholesale Trading (including sourcing from MSEs) | 100% | Automatic |
| 15 | E-commerce activities | 100% | Automatic |
| 16 | Single Brand product retail trading | 100% | Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% |
| 17 | Multi Brand Retail Trading | 51% | Government |
| 18 | Duty Free Shops | 100% | Automatic |
| 19 | Railway Infrastructure Construction, operation and maintenance | 100% | Automatic |
| 20 | Asset Reconstruction Companies | 100% | Automatic |
| 21 | Banking- Private Sector | 74% | Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% and up to 74%. |
| 22 | 1 Banking- Public Sector subject to Banking Companies (Acquisition & Transfer of Undertakings) Acts 1970/80. This ceiling (20%) is also applicable to the State Bank of India and its associate Banks | 20% | Government |
| 23 | Credit Information Companies | 100% | Automatic |
| 24 | Infrastructure companies in Securities Markets, namely, stock exchanges, commodity exchanges, depositories and clearing corporations, in compliance with SEBI Regulations | 49% | Automatic |
| 25 | (i) Insurance Company (ii) Insurance Brokers | 49% | Automatic |
| 26 | Pension Sector | 100% | Automatic |
| 27 | Power Exchanges registered under the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Power Market) Regulations, 2010. | 49% | Automatic |
| 28 | White Label ATM Operations | 100% | Automatic |
| 29 | Financial Services activities regulated by financial sector regulators, viz., RBI, SEBI, IRDA, PFRDA, NHB or any other financial sector regulator as may be notified by the Government of India | 100% | Automatic |
| 30 | Pharmaceuticals Greenfield Brownfield | 100% 100% | Automatic Automatic up to 74% Government route beyond 74% |