advances in the week ended Dec. 2, 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 123.40 billion rupees ($1.50 billion) loans from the RBI in the week ended Dec. 2, compared with 29.44 billion rupees in the previous

week, the release showed.

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

($1 = 82.3110 Indian rupees)

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