State will get ₹1,689 crore, with permission to borrow an additional ₹1,765 crore

Jharkhand has accepted the alternative offered by the Centre to meet part of the GST compensation shortfall through a special borrowing window, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday.
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With Jharkhands acquiescence to the Centres proposed solution, all States and Union territories have now exercised the option to receive part of their GST implementation dues this year. Jharkhand will get 1,689 crore to meet the GST implementation shortfall, with permission to borrow an additional 1,765 crore.
The Centre had offered States the option of borrowing 1.1 lakh crore out of the estimated 2.35 lakh crore shortfall in compensation dues payable to States for this year. After initially asking States to undertake the borrowings themselves, the Centre had later offered to borrow on States behalf and lend it onwards.
Over the past two weeks, most of the States that had reservations with the Centres proposed arrangement, including Kerala, West Bengal and Punjab, have communicated their acceptance of Option-1. On Thursday, Chhattisgarh also came on board.
So far, 30,000 crore has been raised in five instalments through the special borrowing window that was operationalised in late October.
Now the State of Jharkhand will also receive funds raised through this window starting from the next round of borrowing. The next instalment of 6,000 crore will be released to the States/UTs on December 7, 2020, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
All repayments for these special borrowings will be paid from future collections of GST cess, whose validity has been extended beyond the originally envisaged sunset date of June 2022.
The States accepting the Centres formulation for resolving the GST compensation dues for this year are also entitled to get unconditional permission to borrow 0.50% of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP).