Several multinational companies have evinced their interest to shift their base into India across different States in sectors such as Electronics, Retail, e-Commerce, Automotive, Food Processing, Textiles etc.  However, due to sensitivity of information maintained by the companies, the reasons for relocation of operations are not explicitly spelt out.  It has been seen that FDI inflows usually helps in augmenting domestic capital and promote employment opportunities across sectors.  The FDI inflow from USA and other countries in the year 2019-20 had been USD 74.39 billion and for (April – July), 2020-21 (P) has been USD 16.26 billion.

With a view to support and facilitate investments into India, the Government is working hard to institutionalize more investor friendly reforms.  The Government has constituted an Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) to provide support and facilitation to investors for investing in India and to boost growth in key sectors of the economy.  EGoS shall identify potential investors/organizations, make recommendations to the Ministry/Department to promote investment, facilitate handholding of investors, examine and suggest ways to attract more investment in greenfield projects.  Project Development Cells (PDCs) are being set up in Ministries/Departments to fast track investments with coordination between Central Government Ministries and State Governments and thereby grow the pipeline of investment projects in India.  The entire focus of the Government is to create an investment-friendly and business conducive ecosystem to drive investment growth in India.  Several steps like Production Investment Schemes, GIS mapping of available land banks, issuance of Quality Control Orders to cut down cheap imports and many such measures have been put into place to attract further investment into the country.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

Investor facilitation reforms to attract multinational relocations, fast track projects and expand the domestic investment pipeline. The Government is institutionalising investor friendly reforms to attract and facilitate relocation of multinational company operations into India by creating high level facilitation arrangements to identify potential investors, recommend actions to Ministries, provide handholding, attract greenfield projects and establish Project Development Cells to fast track investments through central-state coordination and grow the pipeline of projects.