Direction of FDI in India

Engineering, Services, Electronics and Electrical equipment and Computers were the main sectors receiving FDI in 2000-01.Domestic appliances, finance, food & diary products which were important sectors attracting FDI in the early nineties, have now seen a downtrend in the latter half of the nineties. Services and computer have seen an increasing trend in the latter half of the nineties. The inflow of FDI into computers increased from 6 per cent in 1999-00 to 16 percent in 2000-01. On the whole there have been significant changes in the pattern and composition of FDI inflows with few clear trends over the decade as whole.The FDI is expected to increase over the years with more growth and liberalization of the Indian Economy