Debt Utilisation Status as on August 15, 2012
S.No Type of Instrument Upper Cap (in USD bn) Limit (in INR Cr.)   Limit acquired by the entity (including investment) (in INR Cr.) Investment (in INR Cr.) Limit available with the entity (in INR Cr.) Free Limit  (in INR Cr.) as on August 15, 2012
1 Government Debt –Old 10 46,216        43,319   42,768           551      2,897
2 Government Debt –Long Term 10 51,291        39,927   20,574    19,353    11,364
3(a) Corporate Debt – Old 20 99,777        94,411   79,165    10,165      5,366
3(b) Debt oriented Mutual Fund           5,081    
4(a) QFI investment in debt mutual fund schemes which invest in infra 3   13,451                  -               -                 -      13,451
4(b) Corporate debt long term infra - 1 year lock in with 15 month residual maturity 12   53,806        44,884   15,312    29,572      8,921
4(c) Investment in IDF 10   44,838                  -               -                 -      44,838
5 Upper tier- II 0.5 2,307                  -               -                 -        2,307
  Total 65.5 311,686 222,542 162,900 59,642 89,144
NOTE:
As per CIR/IMD/FIIC/12/2012 dated April 27, 2012, free limits as on July 31, 2012 (INR 2,275 cr in Government debt old category, INR 8,990 cr. in Government debt long term category, INR 4,591 cr. in Corporate debt old category and INR 8,921 crore in corporate debt long term infra category (with one year lock in and 15 months residual maturity) ) was auctioned on August 21, 2012 over the BSE platform. 

While the government announces the limits on debt investments  to FIIs in USD terms, for allocation and monitoring purposes, these limits are converted into INR terms using the RBI reference rate as on the date of the announcements/effective dates.