The public debt of the central government rose 3 percent in the July-September quarter compared to the previous quarter. Trading volumes of government securities jumped 78.45 percent in the second quarter of this year as compared to previous quarter. As per the government’s Quarterly Report on Debt Management for July-September 2016, the Public Debt (excluding liabilities under the ‘Public Account’) of the central government provisionally increased by 3 percent in second quarter of 2016-17 on quarter-on-quarter basis. The total volume of the transactions stood at Rs 56.69 lakh crore in the last quarter compared to a volume of Rs 31.77 lakh crore during the quarter preceding it.
The report said that internal debt constituted 92.3 percent of public debt as at end-September 2016, while marketable securities accounted for 83.4 percent of public debt. About 26.2 percent of outstanding stock had a residual maturity of up to 5 years, which implies that over the next five years, on an average, around 5.6 percent of outstanding stock needs to be rolled over every year. Thus, the report said that the rollover risk in debt portfolio continues to be low. The implementation of budgeted buyback/switches in coming months is expected to reduce rollover risk further.
Further, during the second quarter of the fiscal, the government issued dated securities worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore, taking gross borrowings during first half of 2016-17 to Rs 3.41 lakh crore, or 56.8 percent of Budget Estimate (BE), vis-a-vis 58.5 percent of BE in first half of 2015-16. According to the report, G-sec yields declined sharply across the curve during the quarter, with 10 year segment gaining the most, on the back of softening of crude prices, increase in risk appetite globally after sharp correction post Brexit, passage of GST Bill by Upper House of Parliament, liquidity easing measures of RBI, expectation of rate cut from RBI, etc.
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