LIST OF HIGH PRIORITY INDUSTRIES

A. LIST OF 48 HIGH PRIORITY INDUSTRIES FOR AUTOMATIC

APPROVAL FOR FOREIGN EQUITY UPTO 51%

Metallurgical Industries

Boilers and steam generating plants

Prime movers (other than electrical generators)

Electrical equipment

Transportation

Industrial machinery

Machine tools

Agricultural machinery

Earth moving machinery

Industrial instruments

Scientific and electro medical instruments and laboratory equipment

Nitrogenous & phosphatic fertilizers

Chemicals (other than fertilizers)

Drugs and pharmaceuticals

Paper

Rubber products

Plate glass

Ceramics

Cement products

High technology reproduction and multiplication equipment

Carbon and carbon products

Pretensioned high-pressure RCC pipes

Rubber machinery

Printing machinery

Welding electrodes other than those for welding mild steel

Industrial synthetic diamonds

Photosynthesis improvers, nitrogen fixers, pheromones and bio-insecticides

Extraction and upgrading of minor oils

Pre-fabricated building material

Soya products

High yield seeds and plantlets

All food processing industries other than milk food, malted foods and flour, but excluding the
items reserved for small-scale sector.

All items of packaging for food processing industries excluding the items reserved for small-
scale sector

Hotels and tourism related industry

Software industry

Starch and its derivatives

Cotton textiles

Wool silk and man-made fiber textiles

Textile fabrics (water-proof)

Basic chemicals and chemical products (except products of petroleum and coal)

Rubber, plastic, petroleum and coal products

Metal products and parts except machinery and equipment

Machinery and equipment other than transport equipment

Land transport (support services)

Water transport (support services)

Services incidental to transport not elsewhere classified

Renting and leasing (not elsewhere classified) of transport equipment, office accounting and
computing machinery and equipment, other industrial machinery and equipment and refrigerated
transport.

Business services not elsewhere classified like technical testing and analysis, market research
and development, health and medical services and other services.

B. LIST OF 3 INDUSTRIES FOR AUTOMATIC APPROVAL FOR

FOREIGN EQUITY UPTO 50%

Mining of Iron ore

Mining of metal ores other than iron ore (except Uranium group ores)

Mining of non-metallic minerals not elsewhere classified.

C. LIST OF 9 INDUSTRIES FOR AUTOMATIC APPROVAL FOR

FOREIGN EQUITY UPTO 74%

Mining services

Basic metals and alloys industries

Other manufacturing industries, viz., items based on solar energy, navigational, metrological,
geophysical and related instruments and apparatus, etc.

Electric generation and transmission

Non-conventional energy generation and distribution.

Construction and maintenance of infrastructure

Pipeline transport

Water transport

Storage and warehousing services of agricultural products with refrigeration.

D. LIST OF 7 INDUSTRIES FOR WHICH INDUSTRIAL LICENSE IS
COMPULSORY

Distillation and brewing of alcoholic drinks.

Sugar.

Cigars and cigarettes of tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes.

Electronic aerospace and defence equipment: all types.

Industrial explosive including detonating fuses, safety fuses, gunpowder, nitrocellulose and
matches.

Hazardous chemicals.