advances in the week ended May 13, according to the Reserve Bank of India's weekly statistical supplement released on Friday.

The central government had no outstanding loans in the week earlier as well.

State governments had 138.73 billion rupees ($1.79 billion) loans from the RBI in the week ended May 13, compared with 207.46 billion rupees in the previous

week, the release showed.

Source text: (https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx)

($1 = 77.6266 Indian rupees)

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