Total committed investment in India now is over $5.
Money will be earmarked for the social sector - especially rural districts that house three-fifths of voters
Critics say the crackdown is to muzzle dissent and Rijiju's actions could lead to less foreign aid for projects that fight child marriage, provide clean water in slums and feed pregnant women.
Western businesses and diplomats in Delhi privately say Modi's reputation as a man of action has been hurt by setbacks on economic reform.
The government has given up plans to reconvene a parliament session to secure approval for a common goods and services tax.
Addressing a business conference, Jaitley said it was important to stay on the path of reform and build momentum to achieve higher economic growth.
GST is the biggest revenue shake-up since independence
The proposed changes making it easier for government and businesses to buy farm land are now likely to be implemented by states, not by the central government
The size of bilateral trade is only $6 billion a year.
The Budget loosened the reins on public spending to drive growth.
Modi's government sees itself in a sweet spot with spare cash.
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Eminent free market economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed to run Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new Policy Commission, set up to modernise economic strategy after decades of Soviet-style central planning.
Arvind Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was informally recommended to the post by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
How far investors will be convinced by Modi's promise to replace red tape with a "red carpet" remains to be seen.
The Obama administration sees India not only as a land of huge potential for expanded business and trade but also as a strategic partner in the face of an increasingly assertive China, whose leader visited Modi in India last week.
India will find it difficult to support new global customs rules without "an assurance and visible outcomes" that a permanent solution is being negotiated over its concerns about public food stockholdings, the trade minister said on Friday.
George Osborne and British foreign secretary William Hague are on a two-day visit to India to bolster trade and investment ties with Asia's third-largest economy.
The rupee sank below 60 rupees to the dollar and government bonds had their biggest single-day fall in a month on Monday as higher-than-expected May inflation compounded worries about the impact of violence in Iraq on the price of oil, which India imports.
India's economy is likely to grow at the slowest rate in a decade this year.
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