<h1>Beneficial ownership threshold from land-border countries eased, permitting limited non-controlling stakes under the automatic route with reporting.</h1> The amendment permits non controlling investors from land border countries to invest under the automatic route where their beneficial ownership at the investor entity level does not exceed a defined threshold, while retaining sectoral caps, entry routes and attendant conditions. Such investments must be reported to the DPIIT. An expedited 60 day processing track is established for specified manufacturing sectors, conditional on majority shareholding and control of the investee remaining with resident Indian citizens or resident Indian entities owned and controlled by resident Indian citizens.