Govt. to raise another ₹1,500 crore from RBI
The Hindu
This takes total borrowing in current third quarter to ₹6,000 crore
The State government has decided to raise open market borrowings of ₹1,500 crore from the Reserve Bank of India, taking the total borrowing in the current third quarter to ₹6,000 crore against the targeted ₹6,295 crore.
The amount would be raised through auction of State government securities being conducted on Tuesday. The auction would be conducted on the RBI’s core banking solution e-Kuber system. Government stock up to 10% of the notified amount of sale of each stock would be allotted to eligible individuals and institutions, subject to a maximum limit of one per cent of the notified amount for single bid per stock as per the scheme for non-competitive bidding facility, the RBI said.
The State government has already raised ₹4,500 crore in three tranches during the current quarter – ₹1,500 crore on October 5, ₹2,000 crore on November 1 and ₹1,000 crore on November 16.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.