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Foreign Direct Investment acts as a great force in triggering the development of an economy. Sometimes domestically available capital is inadequate for the purpose of overall development of the country. The inadequacy of capital is fulfilled by foreign direct investment by bridging the gap between domestic savings and investment. Developing countries like India is positively looking forward for FDI inflows. India has start attracting much larger foreign investments af-ter the Economic Reforms, 1991. In 2016, Indian Government had simplified the FDI regime and brought majority of sectors under automatic route. The present work is an attempt to study various sectors opened for FDI under automatic and government route. The present study also focused on the trends of FDI Inflows, FDI Equity Inflows, country wise FDI inflows, year wise FDI inflows and sector wise FDI inflows to India. The study is based on Secondary data which have been collected through reports of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Government of India, Reserve Bank of India. The study concludes that Mauritius emerged as the most dominant source of FDI and Service Sector emerges as the top host of FDI inflows in India.