The Public Debt Management Office has stated that government debt has increased by Rs 24.24 billion in the last 8 months alone.
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The total public debt at the beginning of the current fiscal year 2082/83 was 2674.4 billion, but by mid-Falgun it had reached 2878.29 billion. The Public Debt Management Office has stated that 244.24 billion government debt has been added in the last 8 months alone. According to the office, by this period, the government has 1348.115.7 million in internal and 1530.18 billion in external debt. As of mid-Falgun, the share of foreign debt in the total public debt was 53.16 percent and the share of domestic debt was 46.84 percent. The total public debt so far is 47.13 percent of the gross domestic product. The government has set a target of mobilizing 559 billion public debt for the current fiscal year, but by mid-Falgun it has already raised 295.19 billion. Which is 50.44 percent of the annual target.
Out of the target of raising Rs 362 billion domestic debt for the current fiscal year, 67.31 percent, or Rs 243.66 billion, has been raised so far.
Similarly, out of the target of raising Rs 233.66 billion external debt, only 24.31 percent, or Rs 56.80 billion, has been raised by mid-February.
Similarly, out of the Rs 411.1 billion allocated by the government to repay the principal and interest of government debt this year, Rs 242.26 billion has been paid by mid-February. This is 58.94 percent based on the annual allocation. The office has stated that the total debt service expenditure as of mid-February is 3.97 percent based on the gross domestic product.
