New Delhi: A hooping $19.78 Billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) received by India from countries visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in financial year 2015.

India has received around $19.78 billion foreign direct investment from 12 countries visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 2014-15 financial years. During this period India has invested $3.42 billion in countries including Bhutan, Brazil, Nepal, Fiji, the US, Myanmar, Australia, Mauritius, Japan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

According to the sources, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a reply to Rajya Sabha that, the total out flow for this financial year 2014-15 is $6.42 billion and inflow is $75.71 billion and it is increased by 27 percent to $30.93 billion for this 2014-15 financial years.

Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked the question about 47 missing files on special economic zones over an inquiry beside senior officials of Ministry. In a reply Nirmala said that, all the files excluding 5 are available in the department of commerce and those were available for the audit.

She added that, the five files which are 30-50 year old, related to setting up of central government SEZ, are not available. She also confirmed that, the department has no statistics regarding this if any inquiry initiated by CBI.

According to the 2012-13 report the Comptroller and Auditor General observed that 47 files related to Special economic zones (SEZs) were not made to audit.