"Foreign Institutional Investors/Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors can under the portfolio investment scheme (PIS) now invest up to 30 per cent of the paid up capital of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd," RBI said in a notification.
The earlier limit was up to 24 per cent.
The raise in foreign investment limit follows company's passage of a resolution by the Board of Directors and its shareholders' a special resolution agreeing for enhancing the limit for the purchase of its equity shares by the foreign investors.
RBI monitors the ceilings on FII/NRI/PIO investments in Indian companies on a daily basis and has fixed the cut-off points two percentage points lower than the actual ceiling.
Aditya Birla Nuvo shares closed at Rs 1,383 per share on the BSE today, down 0.45 per cent from the previous close.