India's end-March external debt at $529.7 billion - RBI

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's end-March external debt stood at $529.7 billion, up from $513.4 billion as of end-December, the Reserve Bank of India said in a statement on Friday.

On a residual maturity basis, short-term debt constituted 42 percent of total external debt at the end of March, the statement said, slightly up from end-December's 42.4 percent.

(Reporting by Suvashree Dey Choudhury; Editing by Vyas Mohan)