A government security is a tradable instrument issued by the central or state government.<\/p>\n
It acknowledges the government\u2019s debt obligation.\u00a0G-secs are issued by the RBI on behalf of the central or state governments.<\/p>\n
When these securities are for a short term i.e having a maturity period of less than one year, then they are called Treasury bills or T-bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n Securities having a long-term maturity period i.e more than a year, they are called government bonds or dated securities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The central government issues both T-bills as well as dated securities whereas state governments only issue dated securities which are called state development loans.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A government security is a tradable instrument issued by the central or state government. It acknowledges the government\u2019s debt obligation.\u00a0G-secs are issued by the RBI on behalf of the central or state governments. When these securities are for a short term i.e having a maturity period of less than one year, then they are called… Continue reading Government securities (G-sec)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}