April 26, 2013
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Capital investment facilitation: policy, fiscal and external financing measures deployed to attract domestic and foreign capital inflows.
Measures to increase domestic and foreign investment include creating a Cabinet Committee on Investment to fast track large projects; liberalising FDI in selected sectors; strengthening financial and banking sectors; and fiscal initiatives such as Infrastructure Debt Funds, credit enhancement, Rural Infrastructure Development Fund expansion and investment allowances. Monetary and external capital facilitation measures include policy rate adjustments, relaxed all in cost ceilings for certain external commercial borrowings, higher ceilings for foreign currency non resident deposits and deregulation of interest on rupee NRI deposits to encourage capital inflows.