Foreign direct investments into India rose 15 percent, to 14.5 billion dollars during April-September period of this fiscal, as compared to 12.6 billion dollars in the same period last year. However, according to the latest data of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, foreign investments declined by about 16 percent, to 2.5 billion dollars in September this year. The inflows had declined by about 10 percent, to 1.3 billion dollars in August. But, healthy inflows in May and July helped in registering a positive growth during the first half of the current fiscal. In 2013-14 fiscal, FDI inflows were 24.3 billion dollars.