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Telangana faces Rs 22,315 crore debt repayments this year
The Hindu·
Telangana is set to repay over Rs 22,315 crore this financial year, budget estimates show. Market borrowings are Rs 19,785 crore, NABARD loans Rs 1,047 crore, and Rs 892 crore covers compensation and bonds. Two dearness allowance instalments and arrears add Rs 3,057 crore a year. By end-August, net borrowings were Rs 25,900 crore against Rs 36,900 crore gross.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Monthly salary and wage spending is already around Rs 3,500 crore before the new DA cost.
- The DA and arrears package adds about Rs 250 crore a month to that bill.
- Capital expenditure reached Rs 27,742 crore by September end, or 58.69 percent of the Rs 47,267 crore budgeted.
What's Happening
- Debt servicing of principal and interest on past loans continues to dominate spending.
- Repayments of Rs 19,502 crore are due in 2027-28 under the internal debt maturity profile.
- Bond outgo of Rs 892 crore and NABARD repayments continue through 2031-32.
Borrowing to Roll Over Debt
- The gap between gross and net borrowings shows about Rs 11,000 crore went to debt servicing by August.
- A CAG State Finance Audit Report earlier faulted the previous BRS government for borrowing to repay old loans.
- The Congress government says a significant share of new loans is going into capital works.
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