State Borrowing Cost News Today

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.

The rating agency noted that overall borrowings of 18 states, which constitute 90% of the countrys gross state domestic product, is likely to increase by 9% to over Rs 87 lakh crore in FY24 compared with Rs 79.5 lakh crore in FY23.