Lok Sabha Question No. 3427 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-15
Subject: Investment Proposals
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS LOK SABHA LINSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.3427 To BE ANSwERED  oN 15rH ruLY (MoNDAY),2019 24 ASI{ADHA,  l94l (Saka)

## Investment Proposals

## 3427. SHRI RAM MOHAN NAIDU KINJARAPU

Will the Minister of Finance be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  investment  proposals  for March,2}lg  quarter were lower than that of December, 2018 quarter and even corresponding  quarter of2017;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether it is true that during the last two years, investment  proposals  on trailing four-quarter average  basis has fallen from 7 trillion rupees to2.5 trillion rupees;  and
- (d) if so, the details thereof  along with the reasons therefor?

## AI\SWER

## Ministerofstate(Finance)(ShriAnuragSinghThakur)

- (a) to (d): Foreign  Direct Investnent  is either received  under automatic route or proposals are received  by the respective  Ministries/Deparfinents  of the Govemment of lndia depending  on the sector to which the entity belongs. As regards domestic  investrnent,  Ministry  of Statistics  and programme  Implementation maintains the details of Gross Capital Formation. A statement indicating  quarter-wise  details of foreign  direct invesfinents  inflow in India from the quarter ending December  2017 to quarter  ending March 2019 and the Gross Capital  Formation  for the years 2A15-16 to 20t7'18 is at Annexure-I.

The quantum  of Investment  depends  on various factors, domestic as well as global. However, there is no uniform  pattem  of investrnents.  The overall investment  as measured by Gross Capital Formation has been growing steadily-

## f,'oreign Direct Investment inflows:

|                  | Amount in Rs Million                                               | Amount in Rs Million   | Amount in Rs Million   | Amount in Rs Million         |
|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------|
| Period           | Number of FDI Proposal received under approval route on FIF Portal | FDI inflows            | FDI inflows            | FDI inflows                  |
|                  | Government                                                         | Approval route         | Automatic route        | Acquisition through transfer |
| Oct-Dec 2017     | 32                                                                 | 6,549.40               | 456,844.00             | 220,892.40                   |
| Jan-March 2018   | 36                                                                 | 94,179.70              | 445,0t7.80             | 574,317.60                   |
| April-June 2018  | 24                                                                 | 103,360.50             | 669,517.10             | 851,795.20                   |
| July - Sept 2018 | 30                                                                 | 15,065.30              | 580,982.60             | 699,374.30                   |
| Oct-Dec 2018     | 27                                                                 | 20,398.50              | 689,109.10             | 791,464.80                   |
| Jan - March 2019 | 27                                                                 | 27,701.10              | 598,924.20             | 139,406.80                   |

## Gross Capital Formation (GCF)*

(in Rs. crores)

|                        | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18   |
|------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| **GCF (current prices) | 42,19,569 | 44,74,728 | 50,70,703 |
| **GCF (2011-12 prices) | 37,31,740 | 39,07,865 | 42,86,989 |

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