Govt. borrowing expands by Rs 14 billion in a week

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By MG News | September 22, 2020 at 10:54 AM GMT+05:00

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September 22, 2020 (MLN): The government of Pakistan has accumulated Rs.14.21 billion during the week ended September 11, 2020, which brings its total net retirement for ongoing fiscal year FY2021 to Rs.126.59 billion. As of prior week, the government had retired a net sum of Rs.140.8 billion.

According to the State Bank of Pakistan's weekly estimates in this regard, the government had borrowed Rs.145.1 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 retirement off budgetary support was Rs.74.66 billion, that for commodity operations stood at Rs.51.59 billion. whereas Rs.337.93 million (net) 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.280.14 billion by the government, out of which the Federal Government retired Rs.276.77 billion, the Provincial Government borrowed Rs.12.44 billion, AJK Government retired Rs.9.04 billion, and the GB Government retired Rs.6.77 billion.

On the other hand, the Scheduled Banks have lent out a net total of Rs.205.48 billion out of which the Federal Government borrowed Rs.192.33 billion while the Provincial Government borrowed Rs.13.15 billion.

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