The government will introduce a bill to increase the foreign direct investment (FDI) limit in the insurance sector to 100 percent in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The winter session of Parliament will start from December 1 and continue till December 19.
There will be a total of 15 working days in this session. According to the Lok Sabha bulletin, the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill 2025 is included in the list of 10 bills to be introduced in the upcoming session of Parliament. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in this year’s budget speech, had proposed increasing the current 74 per cent limit on foreign investment in the insurance sector to 100 per cent.
The proposal is part of the new generation financial sector reforms. So far, Rs 82,000 crore has been attracted through foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector.
