Industries Eligible for Automatic Approval of Foreign Technology Agreements and for 51% Foreign Equity.

Annexure III to the New Industrial Policy, 1991.

• Metallurgical industries
  • Ferrous alloys.
  • Castings and forgings.
  • Non-ferrous metals and their alloys
  • Sponge iron and pelletisation
  • Large diameter steel welded pipes of over 300 mm diameter and stainless steel pipes.
  • Pig iron.
• Boilers and steam generating plants.
• Prime movers (other than electrical generators).
  • Industrial turbines.
  • Internal combustion engines.
  • Alternate energy systems like solar, wind, etc. and equipment thereof.
  • Gas/hydro/steam turbines upto 60 MW.
• Electrical equipment
  • Equipment for transmission and distribution of electricity including power and distribution transformers, power relays, HT-switch gear, synchronous condensers.
  • Electrical motors.
  • Electrical furnaces, industrial furnaces and induction heating equipment.
  • X-ray equipment.
  • Electronic equipment and components, including subscribers and telecommunication equipment.
  • Component wires for manufacture of lead-in-wires.
  • Hydro/steam/gas generators/generating sets upto 60 MW.
  • Generating sets and pumping sets based on internal combustion engines.
  • Jelly-filled telecommunication cables.
  • Optic fibre.
  • Energy-efficient lamps.
  • Midget carbon electrodes.
• Transportation.
  • Mechanised sailing vessels upto 10,000 DWT including fishing trawlers.
  • Ship ancillaries.
  • Commercial vehicles, public transport vehicles including automotive commercial three-wheeler jeep type vehicles, industrial locomotives.
  • Automotive two-wheelers and three-wheelers.
  • Automotive components/spares and ancillaries.
  • Shock absorbers for railway equipment.
  • Brake system for railway stock and locomotives.
• Industrial machinery.
• Machine tools and industrial robots and their controls and accessories.
  • Jigs, fixtures, tools and dies of specialised types and cross land tooling.
  • Engineering production aids such as cutting and forming tools, patterns and dies and mining tools.
• Agricultural machinery.
  • Tractors
  • Self-propelled harvester combines.
  • Rice transplanters.
• Earthmoving machinery
• Industrial instruments.

  Indicating, recording and regulating devices for pressure, temperature, rate of flow, weight levels and the like.

• Scientific and electromedical instruments and laboratory equipment
• Nitrogenous & Phosphatic fertilizers falling under
  • Inorganic fertilizer under "18-Fertilizers" in the First Schedule to Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951.
  • Mineral or chemical fertilizers, nitrogenous and phosphatic.
• Chemicals (other than fertilizers)
  • Heavy organic chemicals including petrochemicals.
  • Heavy inorganic chemicals.
  • Organic fine chemicals.
  • Synthetic resins and plastics.
  • Man-made fibres.
  • Synthetic rubber.
  • Industrial explosives.
  • Technical grade insecticides, fungicides, weedicides, and the like.
  • Synthetic detergents.
  • Miscellaneous chemicals (for industrial use only)
    • Catalysts and catalyst supports.
    • Photographic chemicals
    • Rubber chemicals
    • Isocyanates, urethanes, etc.
    • Speciality chemicals for enhanced oil recovery
    • Heating fluids
    • Coal-tar distillation and products therefrom
    • Tonnage plants for the manufacture of industrial gases
    • High altitude breathing oxygen/medical oxygen
    • Nitrous oxide
    • Refrigerant gases like liquid nitrogen, carbon dioxide etc. in large volumes
    • Argon and other rare gases
    • Alkali/acid-resisting cement, compounds
    • Leather chemicals and auxillaries
• Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: According to Drug Policy
• Paper and pulp including paper products, Industrial laminates.
• Automobile tyres and tubes.
  • Automobile tyres and tubes.
  • Rubberised heavy duty industrial beltings of all types
  • Rubberised conveyor beltings
  • Rubber reinforced and lined fire fighting hose pipes
  • High pressure braided hoses
  • Engineering and industrial plastic products
• Plate glass
  • Glass shells for television tubes
  • Float glass and plate glass
  • H.T. insulators
  • Glass fibres for all types
• Industrial Ceramics
• Cement Products
  • Portland cement
  • Gypsum boards, wall boards and the like
• High technology reproduction and multiplication equipment
• Carbon and carbon products
  • Graphite electrodes and anodes
  • Impervious graphite blocks and sheets
• Pretensioned high pressure RCC pipes
• Rubber machinery
• Printing machinery
  • Web-fed high speed offset rotary printing machine with output of 30,000 or more impressions per hour
  • Photo composing/typesetting machines
  • Multi-colour sheet-fed offset printing machines of sizes 18" x 25" and above
  • High speed rotogravure printing machines with output of 30,000 or more impressions per hour.
• Welding electrodes other than those for welding mild steel
• Industrial synthetic diamonds
• Photosynthesis improvers
  • Genetically modified free living symbiotics nitrogen fixer
  • Pheromones
  • Bio-insecticides
• Extraction and upgrading of minor oils
• Prefabricated building materials
• Soya products
  • Soya texture proteins
  • Soya protein isolates
  • Soya protein concentrates
  • Other specialised products of soyabean
  • Winterised and deodorised refined soyabean oil
• Certified high yielding hybrid seeds and synthetic seeds and

  Certified high yielding plantlets developed through plant tissue culture.

• All food processing industries other than milk food, malted foods and flour, but excluding the items reserved for the small scale sector.
• All items of packaging for food processing industries excluding the items reserved for the small scale sector.
• Hotels and tourism related industry
• Software
• Shipping, shipbuilding and ship repair

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Bombay
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Last updated: May 1995.