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The full outstanding guarantees fixed by the State authorities stood astatine ₹2.41 lakh crore astatine the extremity of fiscal twelvemonth 2024-25.
This is ₹21,000 crore higher than ₹2.2 lakh crore astatine the opening of the fiscal twelvemonth with guarantees worthy ₹57,304 crore added and different ₹36,999 crore deleted (repaid) during the year. Of these, a large chunk of the guarantees were fixed to the Irrigation section which accounted for ₹81,763 crore, including an summation of ₹1,388 crore and deletion of ₹2,165 crore. Guarantees to powerfulness assemblage excessively were connected the higher broadside astatine ₹47,578 crore, with an summation of ₹11,921 crore to the erstwhile year’s ₹40,640 crore and deletion of ₹4,983 crore.
Guarantees to Urban Development and Housing schemes constituted ₹13,573 crore, with summation of ₹782 crore and deletion of ₹1,300 crore, portion those for different infrastructure works amounted to ₹10,671 crore, including ₹10,380 crore guarantees fixed during the fiscal.
The authorities gave guarantees to the tune of ₹77,670 crore till the extremity of February 2025 for different works, with summation of ₹25,737 crore portion guarantees worthy ₹21,979 crore were repaid during the year, according to the Finance Accounts 2024-25 audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and tabled successful the Legislative Assembly connected Monday (March 30).
The CAG said the connection was compiled based connected the fund papers of 2025-26, arsenic the authorities had provided neither the maximum magnitude guaranteed nor the segregation of main and involvement components successful respect of outstandings. “Hence, compliance with requirements of IGAS-1 remains deficient,” the CAG said.
While details of guarantees invoked during the twelvemonth and those discharged were not provided by the government, opening equilibrium for the twelvemonth 2024-25 differed with the closing equilibrium for the twelvemonth 2023-24 for which the crushed was not intimated by the government. The fig included outstanding loans to the grade of ₹1.17 lakh crore arsenic connected February 28, 2025 raised by the peculiar intent vehicles/corporations/institutions but serviced by the government.
