Overseas investment approvals


The overseas investment approvals have been steadily increasing since 1996 both in terms of number of approvals and value.  The value of approved/reported Indian investments abroad has gone increased by more than 5 time to US$ 2854.84 million between April 1996 to March 2006.  

In the year 2006-07, 1817 approvals were granted to Indian companies for overseas investments worth US$ 15060 million, a substantial increase in terms of number of approvals and value of investments approved as compared to  last 5 years.

Trends of approvals and outflows of investment abroad during the last eleven years is at Annexure 1.