Govt. borrowing eases by Rs.17 billion in a week

October 25, 2019 (MLN): The government of Pakistan has retired Rs.16.77 billion during the week ended October 18, 2019, which brings its total net borrowing for ongoing fiscal year 2020 to Rs.225.37 billion. As of prior week, the government had borrowed a net sum of Rs.242.14 billion.

According to the State Bank of Pakistan's weekly estimates in this regard, the government had retired Rs.14.82 billion net, around the same time last year.

The government sector borrowings are divided into three broad categories based on the purpose of loan which are budgetary support, commodity operations and others.

Split three ways between these broad categories, the cumulative net borrowing for budgetary support was Rs.257.25 billion,whereas Rs.31.05 billion were retired off commodity operation and Rs.832.44 million were retired off other miscellaneous operations.

The two biggest source of financing for budgetary support are the State Bank of Pakistan and the Scheduled Banks. This fiscal year, the central bank has been retired a net sum of Rs.239.88 billion by the government, out of which the Federal Government borrowed Rs.27.73 billion whereas, the Provincial Government retired Rs.256.03 billion, AJK Government retired Rs.6.47 billion, and the GB Government retired Rs.5.11 billion.

On the other hand, the Scheduled Banks have lent out a net total of Rs.497.13 billion out of which the Federal Government borrowed Rs.501.58 billion while the Provincial Government retired Rs.4.45 billion.

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