Lucknow civic body raises ₹200 cr via BSE bond platform

Lucknow Municipal Corporation’s (LMC) bonds made their debut on the BSE. The civic body of Uttar Pradesh’s capital city is the ninth in the country to have raised money through municipal bonds.

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 UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Ghaziabad will be the next to issue a municipal issue and it will be followed by Pragyaraj, Varanasi, Agra and Kanpur.

Lucknow is the ninth city in the country to raise capital through municipal bonds.

Until now, a cumulative amount of Rs 3,600 crore has been raised via muni bonds in the country. The money raised using such bonds is typically used for infra projects such as roads, water and housing.

In 2015, market regulator SEBI had issued the framework for raising capital by way of muni bonds.

Among the key eligibility criteria for issuing these bonds is that the local body shouldn’t have negative net worth in any of the three preceding financial years and shouldn’t have defaulted on payments in the last one year.