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Govt ready to step up expenditure to fight Covid-19: DEA secretary
Government will frontload its borrowing programme by issuing government securities worth ₹4.88 trillion or 62.56% of its gross borrowing target for FY21 in the first half (April-September) of the year. In FY20 also, the finance ministry had issued bonds worth 62.25% of its full-year target of ₹7.1 trillion.