The Central Government today released the Ninth Edition of the Status Paper on the Government Debt, which provides a detailed analysis of the Overall Debt Position of the Government of India. The Central Government has been bringing-out a Status Paper on Government Debt since 2010-11.

This document enhances transparency by providing a detailed account of debt operations during the year. It covers details of the financing operations of fiscal deficit of the Central Government during the year 2018-19. Government’s Debt Portfolio is characterised by a prudent risk profile and the Government is primarily resorting to market linked borrowings for financing its fiscal deficit. Conventional indicators of debt sustainability, i.e., Debt/GDP ratio, interest payment to revenue receipts, shares of short-term Debt/ External Debt/ FRBs in total debt, are analysed in the document in a comprehensive manner. The document also contains Debt Management Strategy of the Central Government for the financial years from 2019-20 to 2021-22 which will guide the borrowing plan of the Government.

The Status paper is available on the Ministry of Finance’s website: https://dea.gov.in/public-debt-management

Debt Management Strategy guides central government borrowing plan and analyses debt sustainability indicators to enhance transparency. The publication provides a transparent account of the Central Government's debt operations, noting reliance on market-linked borrowings and a prudent portfolio risk profile; it analyses conventional debt sustainability indicators (Debt/GDP, interest payments to receipts, composition by short-term/external/floating-rate debt) and sets out the Central Government's Debt Management Strategy that guides the multi-year borrowing plan.