States continued to pay higher coupon rates to bond investors with average price remaining 7.69 per cent at the latest auction on Tuesday. So far, the states have taken Rs 5.67 lakh crore of debt so far this fiscal, which is 33.5 per cent more than what they had raised in the same week last fiscal when it had stood at Rs 4.22 lakh crore.

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