Invest In India

Sector Wise Restrictions

The Government of India is focused on making India a Global hub for manufacturing activities. The following are some of the sectors where India has a lot of potential

S. No. Sector Sectoral Cap Entry Route
1 Agriculture & Animal Husbandry 100% Automatic
2 Plantation Sector 100% Automatic
3 Mining and Petroleum & Natural Gas
  • Mining and Exploration of metal and non-metal ores
  • Coal & Lignite
  • Mining and mineral separation of titanium bearing minerals and ores, its value addition and integrated activities
  • 100%
  • 100%
  • 100%
  • Automatic
  • Automatic
  • Government
4 Petroleum & Natural Gas
  • Exploration activities of oil and natural gas fields, infrastructure related to marketing of petroleum products and natural gas, marketing of natural gas and petroleum products.
  • Petroleum refining by the Public Sector Undertakings (PSU), without any disinvestment or dilution of domestic equity in the existing PSUs
  • 100%



  • 49%
  • Automatic



  • Government
5 Defence 100% Automatic upto 49%* Now Revised to 74%
6 Broadcasting Carriage Services 100% Automatic
7 Broadcasting Content Services 49% Government
8 Print Media 26% Government
9 Civil Aviation 100% Automatic
10 Air Transport Services 100% Automatic subject to Govt. approval in some specific field
11 Construction Development: Townships, Housing, Built-up Infrastructure 100% Automatic
12 Private Security Agencies 74% Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% and up to 74%
13 Telecom Services 100% Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49%
14 Trading Cash & Carry Wholesale Trading/Wholesale Trading (including sourcing from MSEs) 100% Automatic
15 E-commerce activities 100% Automatic
16 Single Brand product retail trading 100% Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49%
17 Multi Brand Retail Trading 51% Government
18 Duty Free Shops 100% Automatic
19 Railway Infrastructure Construction, operation and maintenance 100% Automatic
20 Asset Reconstruction Companies 100% Automatic
21 Banking- Private Sector 74% Automatic up to 49% Government route beyond 49% and up to 74%.
22 1 Banking- Public Sector subject to Banking Companies (Acquisition & Transfer of Undertakings) Acts 1970/80. This ceiling (20%) is also applicable to the State Bank of India and its associate Banks 20% Government
23 Credit Information Companies 100% Automatic
24 Infrastructure companies in Securities Markets, namely, stock exchanges, commodity exchanges, depositories and clearing corporations, in compliance with SEBI Regulations 49% Automatic
25 (i) Insurance Company (ii) Insurance Brokers 49% Automatic
26 Pension Sector 100% Automatic
27 Power Exchanges registered under the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Power Market) Regulations, 2010. 49% Automatic
28 White Label ATM Operations 100% Automatic
29 Financial Services activities regulated by financial sector regulators, viz., RBI, SEBI, IRDA, PFRDA, NHB or any other financial sector regulator as may be notified by the Government of India 100% Automatic
30 Pharmaceuticals
  • Greenfield
  • Brownfield
  • 100%
  • 100%
  • Automatic
  • Automatic up to 74% Government route beyond 74%

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