In consultation with Reserve Bank of India, the government has trimmed down its annual market borrowing by Rs 8000 crore and decided to borrow Rs 2.40 lakh crore in the next six months starting October 1, against the budget estimate of Rs 2.48 lakh crore. Together with Rs 3.52 lakh crore during the first six months (April-September), the total borrowings for this fiscal stands at Rs 5.92 lakh crore, against the Budget estimate of Rs 6 lakh crore.
Further, these market borrowings will be made through long-term dated securities, which would have a maturity period of more than 1 year and go up to 30 years. This instrument would carry a fixed or floating interest rate, payable at fixed time periods (usually half-yearly), and will be tradable in the market. Apart from banks and foreign institutions, retail individuals too could invest in such instruments.
Earlier too, the government in the first half of the fiscal, borrowed Rs 3.52 lakh crore, which was 16,000 crore less than planned on account of comfortable cash position and so estimated the second half borrowing to be at Rs 2.48 lakh crore. However, with positive indications on the revenue front, especially non-tax revenues, as also expectations of lower expenditure on subsidies, the government trimmed down its borrowing for second half of the fiscal.
Also, in good news, Finance Secretary underscored that regardless of the cut in the market borrowing, the government was sticking to its fiscal target of 4.1% of the GDP for FY2014-15. Thus, with lower borrowings, this could go well below 4%, which is a good sign for sovereign ratings.
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