A. List of 48 High Priority Industries for Automatic Approval for Foreign Equity upto 51%

1. Metallurgical Industries
2. Boilers and steam generating plants
3. Prime movers (other than electrical generators)
4. Electrical equipment
5. Transportation
6. Industrial machinery
7. Machine tools
8. Agricultural machinery
9. Earth moving machinery
10. Industrial instruments
11. Scientific and electro medical instruments and laboratory equipment
12. Nitrogenous & phosphatic fertilizers
13. Chemicals (other than fertilizers)
14. Drugs and pharmaceuticals
15. Paper
16. Rubber products
17. Plate glass
18. Ceramics
19. Cement products
20. High technology reproduction and multiplication equipment
21. Carbon and carbon products
22. Pretensioned high-pressure RCC pipes
23. Rubber machinery
24. Printing machinery
25. Welding electrodes other than those for welding mild steel
26. Industrial synthetic diamonds
27. Photosynthesis improvers, nitrogen fixers, pheromones and bio-insecticides
28. Extraction and upgrading of minor oils
29. Pre-fabricated building material
30. Soya products
31. High yield seeds and plantlets
32. All food processing industries other than milk food, malted foods and flour, but excluding the items reserved for small-scale sector.
33. All items of packaging for food processing industries excluding the items reserved for small-scale sector
34. Hotels and tourism related industry
35. Software industry
36. Starch and its derivatives
37. Cotton textiles
38. Wool silk and man-made fiber textiles
39. Textile fabrics (water-proof)
40. Basic chemicals and chemical products (except products of petroleum and coal)
41. Rubber, plastic, petroleum and coal products
42. Metal products and parts except machinery and equipment
43. Machinery and equipment other than transport equipment
44. Land transport (support services)
45. Water transport (support services)
46. Services incidental to transport not elsewhere classified
47. Renting and leasing (not elsewhere classified) of transport equipment, office accounting and computing machinery and equipment, other industrial machinery and equipment and refrigerated transport.
48. Business services not elsewhere classified like technical testing and analysis, market research and development, health and medical services and other services.

1. Mining of Iron ore
2. Mining of metal ores other than iron ore (except Uranium group ores)
3. Mining of non-metallic minerals not elsewhere classified.

1. Mining services
2. Basic metals and alloys industries
3. Other manufacturing industries, viz., items based on solar energy, navigational, metrological, geophysical and related instruments and apparatus, etc.
4. Electric generation and transmission
5. Non-conventional energy generation and distribution.
6. Construction and maintenance of infrastructure
7. Pipeline transport
8. Water transport
9. Storage and warehousing services of agricultural products with refrigeration.

1. Distillation and brewing of alcoholic drinks.
2. Sugar.
3. Cigars and cigarettes of tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes.
4. Electronic aerospace and defence equipment: all types.
5. Industrial explosive including detonating fuses, safety fuses, gunpowder, nitrocellulose and matches.
6. Hazardous chemicals.
7. Drugs and pharmaceuticals (except for all bulk drugs and their formulations subject to few)