Circular No. RBI/2023-24/81 FMRD.FMID.No. 04/14.01.006/2023-24, Dated 08.11.2023
Earlier, the RBI vide. Circular Dated 30.03.2020 notified Fully Accessible Route (FAR), through which certain specified categories of Central Government securities were opened fully for non-resident investors without any restrictions, apart from being available to domestic investors as well. The RBI has now decided to also designate all Sovereign Green Bonds issued by the Government in the fiscal year 2023-24 as ‘specified securities’ under the FAR
Earlier, vide circular dated 30.03.2020, the RBI has notified that all new issuances of Government securities of 5-year, 10-year and 30-year tenors from the financial year 2020-21 to be eligible for investment under the FAR as ‘specified securities’.
Later, through circular dated 07.07.2022 and circular dated 23.01.2023, Government securities of 7-year & 14-year tenors and Sovereign Green Bonds were included as ‘specified securities’ under the FAR.
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