₹23,123 crore funding, mainly aimed at ramping up health infrastructure. Responding to a question about the option of the government issuing Covid bonds to raise money, Kumar said, "Well give it whatever names you like, the point is that if the government needs to borrow more money for expanding capital expenditure, it could go ahead because that will attract more private investments".
He noted that the government should issue bonds, whether these are Covidx bonds or infrastructure bonds, the name is not so material, and pointed out that bond yields have not risen despite the higher borrowing requirements of both the central and state governments. "This means that there is an appetite for government borrowings and the deficit would be