Debt Utilisation Status as on November 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 November 15, 2012
1 Government Debt –Old 10 46,216       44,757      42,754     2,002      1,459
2 Government Debt –Long Term 10 51,291       45,826      28,323   17,503      5,465
3(a) Corporate Debt – Old


20 99,777       94,642      78,966   11,144      5,135
3(b) Debt oriented Mutual Fund         4,532
3(c) Corporate Debt – Old (QFIs) 1 5,526                  -                   -                -   5,526
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       23,731      16,424     7,307   30,075
4(c) Investment in IDF 10        44,838                  -                   -                -     44,838
5 Upper tier- II 0.5 2,307                  -                   -                -        2,307
  Total 66.5 317,212 208,955 171,000 37,956 108,256

NOTE:

As per CIR/IMD/FIIC/12/2012 dated April 27, 2012, free limits as on October 31, 2012 (INR 1,094 cr. in Government debt old category, INR 4,451 cr. in Government debt long term category and INR 5,071 cr. in Corporate debt old category) was auctioned on November 20, 2012 over the NSE 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.