India's foreign direct investment inflows more than doubled to $4.67 billion in September, according to an official of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
In September 2011, the country had attracted FDI worth $1.76 billion.
The September 2012 figure is the highest for any month in this fiscal so far.
Foreign inflows, in August 2012, had declined by 20 per cent to $2.26 billion after registering an increase in July at $1.47 billion.
In April, May and June, the inflows ranged between $1.24 billion and $1.85 billion.
For the April-September 2012 period, FDI inflows, however, declined by about 33 per cent to $12.84 billion from $19.13 billion in the year-ago period as inflows were small in the initial months, the official told PTI.
Sectors which received large FDI inflows in September include services ($3 billion), metallurgical ($685 million), construction ($644 million) and automobile ($635 million).
For the April-September 2012 period, India received maximum FDI from Mauritius ($6.25 billion), Japan ($1.32 billion), Singapore ($1.12 billion) the Netherlands ($968 million) and the UK ($592 million).
The inflows had aggregated to $36.50 billion in 2011-12 against $19.42 billion in 2010-11 and $25.83 billion in 2009-10.
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