{"id":331449,"date":"2025-04-01T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=331449"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:02:56","slug":"fully-accessible-route-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fully-accessible-route-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Accessible Route (FAR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; Despite selling heavily in the Indian stock market, foreign investors have invested over Rs 51,730 crore ($6 billion) in Indian bonds through the Fully Accessible Route (FAR) since January. <strong>Fully Accessible Route (FAR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-331499 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?resize=617%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fully Accessible Route (FAR)\" width=\"617\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Fully Accessible Route (FAR)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>FAR Bonds<\/strong> refer to Indian government securities designated under the Fully Accessible Route, which allows foreign investors unrestricted access to invest in these bonds without any investment caps.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Introduced in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The RBI introduced this route in March 2020 to increase foreign participation in India\u2019s bond market.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To enable non-residents to invest in specified Government of India dated securities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Eligible investors:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs), Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), and other entities permitted by the RBI can invest in government securities under the FAR route.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Investment limits:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Eligible investors can invest in specified Government securities without being subject to any investment ceilings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They play important role in India\u2019s integration with global financial markets.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2024, JP Morgan added 29 Indian government securities under the FAR programme to its widely followed Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News&#8211; Despite selling heavily in the Indian stock market, foreign investors have invested over Rs 51,730 crore ($6 billion) in Indian bonds through the Fully Accessible Route (FAR) since January. Fully Accessible Route (FAR) About Fully Accessible Route (FAR) FAR Bonds refer to Indian government securities designated under the Fully Accessible Route, which allows foreign&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/fully-accessible-route-far\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fully Accessible Route (FAR)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":331499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-331449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Fully-Accessible-Route-FAR.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}