As we know that for smoothing running of any business we require the capital, and it play an important role among the factor of production. At the time of economic crisis, foreign capital plays an important role in the economic development, from that time of Government of India has been making continuous effort to attack foreign capital. The effort includes providing concession in taxes, announcing tax holidays and this is the reason that there has been steady rise in the inflow of foreign capital. There has been a remarkable progress in the Indian economy due to the inflow of foreign capital. The objective of this research paper is to study the trend and pattern of FDI inflows in year- wise, Route-wise FDI equity inflows in India and also study the major sources of FDI inflows country- wise in India and FDI inflows in major cities of India.
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