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External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) can be raised either under the automatic route or under the approval route. For the automatic route, a case is examined by the Authorised Dealer (AD) Category-I bank. Under the approval route, the borrower is required to send the request to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) through the AD for examination. While the regulatory provisions are mostly similar, some differences between the two routes include the amount of borrowing, eligibility of the borrowers and the permissible end-uses.

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