{"id":17553,"date":"2026-09-09T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=17553"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:11:06","slug":"indias-revised-model-bit-reaches-final-stages-ahead-of-cabinet-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/09\/09\/indias-revised-model-bit-reaches-final-stages-ahead-of-cabinet-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Revised Model BIT Reaches Final Stages Ahead of Cabinet Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 7, 2026, Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Anuradha Thakur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/economy\/news\/cabinet-may-soon-consider-revamped-model-investment-treaty-dea-secy-126080701874_1.html\">said<\/a> that the overhaul of India&#8217;s 2016 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty is in its final stages and will soon be placed before the Union Cabinet. First announced in the 2025-26 Union Budget, the revision aims to make India&#8217;s treaty regime more investor-friendly while retaining sovereign safeguards, and is expected to unlock stalled <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips63'>BIT<\/span> negotiations with partners including the United Kingdom and the European Union. No draft text has been made <a href=\"https:\/\/riskandcompliance.freshfields.com\/post\/102mmwp\/indias-investment-treaty-landscape-in-2026\">public<\/a>, although recent treaties such as the India-UAE BIT signal the likely direction, including a shortened local remedies requirement. The 2016 Model anchored India&#8217;s retrenchment after it terminated some 75 BITs; its recalibration would mark the most significant repositioning by a major developing economy in a decade, and governments across the Global South will read it as a test of whether investor-friendliness and regulatory autonomy can be reconciled in treaty text. For earlier coverage, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2026\/01\/19\/india-moves-to-revise-its-model-bilateral-investment-treaty\/\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips60'>ITN<\/span>&#8217;s report<\/a> on the announced revision.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips60','Investment Treaty News'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 7, 2026, Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Anuradha Thakur said that the overhaul of India&#8217;s 2016 Model Bilateral Investment Treaty is in its final stages and will soon be placed before the Union Cabinet.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":17554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[1900],"class_list":["post-17553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-current-issue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17553\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}