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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)inflows can help host countries development in different ways especially through export competitiveness, generating employment and strengthening the skills base, enhancing technological capabilities and particularly increasing financial resources for development. As a result, developing and underdeveloped countries now widely using FDI as an important source of investment for their sustained economic growth and development. And India and China are no exception from it. Although these two countries have strong similarities with each other in different respect to attract FDI inflows particularly with population and market size but their performance to attracting FDI inflows mismatch severely. While China is able to get huge FDI inflows for a long period, India's performance is not up to mark in this respect although it has improved significantly recently. In this paper an attempt has been made to identify the causes of disparity of India -China FDI performances over time and more importantly find out the factors responsible for India's unattractiveness as an investment location. India's recent policy also analyzed and showed its effects on FDI inflows positively. But India still needs to improve infrastructure facilities significantly, overcome administrative loopholes and slashes corporate tax rate to augment FDI inflows in future.