Govt. borrowing jumps to Rs.2.35 trillion as of last week

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By MG News | July 05, 2019 at 05:16 PM GMT+05:00

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July 05, 2019 (MLN): The government of Pakistan has accumulated an additional net debt of Rs.709.31 billion during the week ended June 28, 2019, which brings its total net borrowing for ongoing fiscal year (FY19) to Rs.2.35 trillion.

According to the State Bank of Pakistan's weekly estimates in this regard, this year's overall net borrowing as of this week has increased by Rs.925.32 billion over the year as last year's net borrowing for the same period stood at Rs.1.42 trillion.

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.2.41 trillion,whereas Rs.63.26 billion were retired off commodity operation and Rs.3.25 billion were retired from 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 lent out a net sum of Rs.3.16 trillion to the government, out of which the Federal Government borrowed Rs.3.31 trillion whereas, the Provincial Government retired Rs.139.27 billion, AJK Government retired Rs.7.1 billion, and the GB Government retired Rs.2.33 billion.

On the other hand, the Scheduled Banks have been retired a net of Rs.744.25 billion out of which the Federal Government retired Rs.647.15 billion while the Provincial Government retired Rs.97.1 billion.

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