The Centre will stick to its borrowing programme for FY22 and will not tap the market for more funds to meet the GST compensation shortfall for states.
The Finance Ministry has permitted 11 states to borrow an additional amount of Rs 15,721 crore after these states achieved the capital expenditure target set for the June quarter.
States are increasingly borrowing higher by making ambitious GSDP projections and hence, there is a need for a new formula to define the loan caps, economists at largest lender SBI said on Tuesday.
The yields are trading high as banks, the main investors into state debt, are concerned over the rising government debt of the Centre and the states
The weighted average cost of borrowing for the states has fallen by 20 bps over the past week to 6.75 per cent at the latest auctions.
This is is Rs 25,393 crore or around 3 per cent less than the indicated debt for the fiscal
The maximum addition in states'' borrowings has taken place this fiscal due to the pandemic that has eaten away their revenue by 21.2 per cent, it said
The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said it has permitted Rajasthan to borrow an additional Rs 2,731 crore after the state undertook reform in 'one-nation one ration card' system.
States will receive Rs 10.33 trillion in grants
The amount raised through these bonds would not be high since domestic borrowing will exert pressure on yields.
Wants borrowing limit of states to be raised to 5%, extension of period under tax loss carry forward, among other things
The permission for mobilising additional financial resources of Rs 2,508 crore through Open Market Borrowings was issued by Department of Expenditure
Aggregate debt raised from the market by states has risen in nine months of this year by a massive 43.5% over last year. It is the biggest jump in state borrowings ever
These states are Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana
This leaves Jharkhand as the odd one out
Revenue deficit touched a staggering Rs 45,472.77 crore, according to the state finance accounts released by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
RBI report lauds Odisha, Haryana for dipping into own 'rainy funds' instead of borrowing more; views Gujarat, UP and Punjab as over-leveraged
Finance Ministry on Thursday said the central government will borrow Rs 1.1 trillion to make up for the shortfall in GST of states
Tamil Nadu opts for special window, gets permission to borrow Rs 9,600 crore, Kerala reacts strongly to the Centre's move to 'divide" states
The decision comes days after the GST Council failed to reach a consensus on the stalemate over the Centre's proposal of states borrowing against future GST collections to make up for the shortfall.