New Delhi: India’s fiscal deficit during April to January was Rs 4.35 trillion, or 105.4 percent of the full-year target, government data showed on Wednesday.
During the same period in the last fiscal year, fiscal deficit was 58.3 percent of the budgeted target.
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Net tax receipts were Rs 4.6 trillion and total expenditure was Rs 10.02 trillion during the April-January period.
In February 2011, the government had budgeted a fiscal deficit of 4.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2011/12 fiscal year that ends in March, but many private economists see the deficit for the year overshooting by a full percentage point on slowing growth and weak federal finances.
New Delhi has admitted meeting the fiscal gap target would be a “great challenge”, but officials said they would try to keep the deficit under 5 percent of GDP by pruning expenditure.
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