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The Union Cabinet connected Friday (December 12, 2025) approved a measure to rise overseas nonstop concern successful the security assemblage to 100%, according to sources.
The Bill whitethorn beryllium introduced successful the ongoing Winter league of Parliament, which is slated to reason connected December 19.
According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill 2025, which seeks to deepen penetration, accelerate maturation and improvement of the security assemblage and heighten easiness of doing business, is portion of the 13 legislations listed for the upcoming league of Parliament.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, successful this year's Budget speech, projected to rise the overseas concern bounds to 100% from the existing 74% successful the security assemblage arsenic portion of new-generation fiscal assemblage reforms.
So far, the security assemblage has attracted ₹82,000 crore done overseas nonstop concern (FDI).
The concern ministry has projected amending assorted provisions of the Insurance Act, 1938, including raising FDI successful the security assemblage to 100%, reducing paid-up capital, and introducing a composite licence.
As portion of a broad legislative exercise, the Life Insurance Corporation Act 1956 and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act 1999 volition beryllium amended, alongside the Insurance Act 1938.
The amendments to the LIC Act suggest empowering its committee to instrumentality operational decisions, specified arsenic subdivision enlargement and recruitment.
The projected amendment chiefly focuses connected promoting policyholders' interests, enhancing their fiscal security, and facilitating the introduction of further players into the security market, thereby driving economical maturation and employment generation.
Such changes volition assistance heighten the ratio of the security industry, alteration easiness of doing business, and heighten security penetration to execute the extremity of 'Insurance for All by 2047'.
The Insurance Act of 1938 serves arsenic the main Act to supply the legislative model for security successful India. It provides the model for the functioning of security businesses and regulates the relationships among insurers, their policyholders, shareholders, and the regulator, Irdai.
