Debt Utilisation Status as on December 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 December 15, 2012
1 Government Debt –Old 10 46,216             43,847           43,203             644           2,369
2 Government Debt –Long Term 10 51,291             33,037           30,607          2,430        18,254
3(a) Corporate Debt – Old


 20 99,777             93,715           79,996          9,237           6,062
3(b) Debt oriented Mutual Fund              4,482
3(c) Corporate Debt – Old (QFIs) 1 5,526                   400                  400                  -   5,126
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             21,846           14,851          6,995        31,960
4(c) Investment in IDF 10        44,838                        -                        -                    -          44,838
5 Upper tier- II 0.5 2,307                        -                        -                    -             2,307
  Total 66.5 317,212 192,845 173,539 19,306 124,367

NOTE:
As per CIR/IMD/FIIC/12/2012 dated April 27, 2012, free limits as on November 30, 2012 (INR 1,985 cr. in Government debt old category, INR 10,264 cr. in Government debt long term category and INR 4,301 cr. in Corporate debt old category) will be auctioned on December 20, 2012 over the BSE platform from 15:30 hrs to 17:30 hrs. 

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.