Foreign investment in any form is prohibited in businesses engaged or proposes to engage in the following business:
i) The business of chit fund; or
ii) Nidhi Company; or
iii) Agricultural or plantation activities (excluding floriculture, horticulture, development of seeds, animal husbandry, pisciculture, cultivation of vegetables, mushrooms, etc., under controlled conditions, services related to the agro & allied sector and tea plantations); or
iv) Real Estate business, or construction of farm houses (Does not include the development of townships, construction of residential/commercial premises, roads or bridges); or
v) Trading in Transferable Development Rights (TDRs)