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Govt plans to switch ₹25K cr bonds via auction
Business Standard
|February 18, 2026
The government plans to conduct a ₹25,000 crore switch auction of dated securities to smoothen its redemption profile and ease supply pressure in the bond market, the Reserve Bank of India said in a release on Tuesday.
Last week, a ₹75,500 crore switch was conducted. The aim of these operations is to bring down the gross borrowing number for FY27, which stands at ₹17.2 trillion as announced in the Union Budget.
The auction, scheduled for February 23, will convert a basket of government bonds maturing in 2026-27 into longer-tenor papers ranging from 2032 to 2062.
The securities proposed to be switched include the 6.97 per cent GS 2026, 5.74 per cent GS 2026, 8.15 per cent GS 2026 and 8.24 per cent GS 2027. These will be exchanged for papers such as the 8.32 per cent GS 2032, 7.5 per cent GS 2034, 7.62 per cent GS 2039, 6.57 per cent GS 2033 and the ultra-long 7.40 per cent GS 2062.
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