Foreign Direct Investment inflows (FDI) has shown a continuous increase from US$ 45.15 billion in 2014-15 to US$ 81.97 billion in 2020-21. During the last five financial years, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows worth US$ 339.55 billion have been reported into India. The financial year wise details are as under:

S. No.	Financial Year	Amount of FDI inflows (in US$ billions)
1.	2016-17	60.22
2.	2017-18	60.97
3.	2018-19	62.00
4.	2019-20	74.39
5.	2020-21	81.97

To promote Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), the Government has put in place an investor-friendly policy, wherein most sectors are open for 100% FDI under the Automatic route. Further, the policy on FDI is reviewed on an ongoing basis, to ensure that India remains attractive & investor friendly destination. Changes are made in the policy after having consultations with stakeholders including apex industry chambers, Associations, representatives of industries/groups and other organizations. Government has recently undertaken a number of reforms across sectors. In the last one year alone, reforms in the FDI policy have been undertaken in sectors such as Insurance, Defence, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Telecom, etc.

Foreign Direct Investment inflows serve to augment domestic investments, promote industrial development and employment generation across sectors and ancillary industries. Further, such investments bring international best practices and latest technologies which facilitate in skill development, export promotion and improvement of overall competitiveness of economy leading to overall economic growth and development in the country.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Shri Som Parkash, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

Foreign direct investment policy: expanded automatic route and sectoral reforms enhance investment climate and technology transfer. The Government maintains an investor-friendly FDI regime allowing most sectors 100% FDI under the Automatic route, with the policy under continuous review and amended after stakeholder consultations. Recent sectoral reforms in insurance, defence, petroleum and natural gas, and telecom aim to liberalise access and promote inflows, which are expected to augment domestic investment, foster technology transfer, generate employment, and improve competitiveness and export promotion.