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.
• Mechanized 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 specialized 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 auxiliaries
• Drugs and Pharmaceuticals: According to Drug Policy
• Paper and pulp including paper products, Industrial laminates.
• Automobile tyres and tubes.
• Automobile tyres and tubes.
• Rubberized heavy duty industrial beltings of all types
• Rubberized 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 specialized 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