Which are the sectors where FDI is not allowed in India, both under the Automatic Route as well as under the Government Route?

 FDI is prohibited under the Government Route as well as the Automatic Route in the following sectors:

i) Atomic Energy

ii) Lottery Business

iii) Gambling and Betting

iv) Business of Chit Fund

v) Nidhi Company

vi) Agricultural (excluding Floriculture, Horticulture, Development of seeds, Animal Husbandry, Pisciculture and cultivation of vegetables, mushrooms, etc. under controlled conditions and services related to agro and allied sectors) and Plantations activities (other than Tea Plantations)

vii) Housing and Real Estate business (except development of townships, construction of residen­tial/commercial premises, roads or bridges)

viii) Trading in Transferable Development Rights (TDRs).

ix) Manufacture of cigars , cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes , of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes.