Shimla, March 20 -- Himachal chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu called on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at New Delhi on Thursday to raise the issue of reducing Revenue Deficit Grants (RDG). Facing fiscal challenges, Sukhu has requested to allow the state an additional borrowing of 2% of the GSDP for 2025-26.

Sukhu said that the state government has taken many steps for additional resource mobilization, however, these are insufficient to meet the budgetary obligations for the financial year 2025-26. He requested the minister to allow the state an additional borrowing of 2 percent of the GSDP for 2025-26.

He requested the finance minister to review the limit imposed by the department of expenditure on Himachal Pradesh for a...