Finance Ministry today ruled out any increase in the investment limit by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) in the government securities.
"We are not looking at increasing FII (investment) limit in government securities," Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Ashok Chawla told reporters here.
He further said that as only 65% of FII investment cap of $ 5 billion in government securities has been exhausted so far, there is no case for reviewing the limit.
Earlier in June, the government raised the FII investment limit in government securities to USD 5 billion from $3.2 billion.
Although the government has not hiked the investment limit in government securities, it has recently increased the FII investment cap in corporate debt to $ 6 billion from $ 3 billion to encourage flow of foreign investment.