उत्तराखंड में बढ़ता कर्ज का मर्ज, मौजूदा वित्तीय वर्ष में 4400 पहुंची कर्ज की रकम, नहीं बढ़ सके आय के स्रोत
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00:00The Uttarakhand government is going to take a loan of Rs. 1000 crores from the open market.
00:11Although this amount is really very big, but the concern is not about the loan,
00:16but about the fact that the source of income from the state is not increasing.
00:21The special thing is that the state government has already taken a loan of Rs. 3400 crores this year.
00:28Now, after getting a loan of Rs. 1000 crores, the total amount of the loan will reach Rs. 4400 crores this year.
00:36Economic analyst Rajendra Bisht says that this loan is being taken for 7 years,
00:42that is, the state government will return this loan by 2032.
00:47Whenever there is a state government,
00:51if there is no allocation in the budget or they have less money,
00:58then there are different ways to take money from the market.
01:01They either issue their bonds or make bonds of their state government.
01:06They can be unsecured and secured, or they borrow from the market in some other form.
01:13The state government is taking a loan of 7 years,
01:20and it is being done through their account in the Reserve Bank.
01:24The different financial institutions that want to give Rs. 1000 crores to the Uttarakhand government,
01:31their coupon rate, which we call interest rate, is not fixed.
01:34It will be finalized according to the bid, and we will find out tomorrow how much it has.
01:40But generally, if you look at how the government has disclosed that there is a debt of Rs. 57,114 crores in 2021,
01:48another debt has been added to it, which will add up to Rs. 1000 crores,
01:52and how the government will service it.
01:54But the government says that it needs it in rural development, power, and different sectors,
02:00so it will put that loan there, and the loan will be repaid after 7 years.
02:05Anand Vardhan, the Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand,
02:09asked ETV Bharat about the loan being taken by the state government.
02:14He said that the state government takes a loan as per the need.
02:19When it takes time to take a budget from the centre,
02:22a loan is taken from the open market as well.
02:25This is done to fulfill the development plans of the state.
02:29On the other hand, the Secretary of Uttarakhand, Dilip Javalkar says
02:34that the loan taken by the state is within the limit.
02:38The decision to take a loan has been taken while keeping the various schemes in view.
02:43It has also been clarified in the notice issued to take a loan from the open market
02:48that by 31 March 2021, Uttarakhand had a loan of Rs. 57,114.6449 crores.
02:58The state government is giving this loan of Rs. 1,000 crores from the open market
03:02to advance various schemes in the fields of energy, agriculture, irrigation, and industrial development.
03:10Let's listen to what senior journalist Neeraj Kohli has to say about this.
03:14This is not the first time that a loan has been taken from the state.
03:20At times, when the government is unable to get help from the Indian government,
03:35it takes a loan.
03:37There is no problem in taking a loan,
03:39but the question is whether we are in a position to pay the loan or not.
03:43Will we be able to pay the loan that we are taking?
03:46This is a big question.
03:48After the formation of the state, in the last 24 years,
03:51how much financial burden was there on Uttarakhand at the time of formation of the state?
03:58And how much financial burden is there in today's date?
04:00According to the figures of the Uttarakhand government of 2021,
04:04I think that the loan of Rs. 57,000 crores is still on the Uttarakhand government.
04:09And in the last 3-4 years, this graph will increase.
04:14So, there is no problem in taking a loan.
04:16But the biggest thing is that if we are unable to pay the loan at the right time and in the right form,
04:23then this graph of loan will continue to increase and we will get more entangled in the margin of the loan.
04:28So, what I mean to say is that this is a small state.
04:31We will have to increase the scope of our financial resources.
04:35We will have to increase the income of our revenue
04:39so that our independence is not more on the Indian government,
04:44not on the major banks.
04:45And the effort should be to raise as little money as possible from the market
04:49and develop our financial resources in a good way.
04:53So that it is a small state.
04:55If we get entangled in this trap,
04:59then in the coming days, whoever will come forward,
05:02they will have to go through the difficulties.
05:05After the establishment of the state of Uttarakhand,
05:08the financial situation of the state has not been much better.
05:12After the establishment of Uttarakhand as a separate state,
05:16a loan of about Rs. 4000 crores had come to the state.
05:20After this, this loan gradually increased and this figure reached around Rs. 60,000 crores.
05:27It is hoped that in the new year, the government will increase its financial resources
05:32so that it does not have to be forced to take loans in the future.
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