India’s April-May fiscal deficit at 9.6% of full-year target

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NEW DELHI, June 30 (Reuters) – India’s fiscal deficit (INFISC=ECI), opens new tab in April-May was ​at 1.62 trillion rupees ($17.11 billion), ‌or 9.6% of the estimate for the financial year ending March 31, ​government data showed on Tuesday.
The ​deficit in the same period last ⁠year stood at 131.6 billion ​Indian rupees.

India has set the ​fiscal deficit target for 2026/27 at 4.3% of the GDP, or 16.96 trillion rupees.
– ​Net tax receipts at 3.5 ​trillion rupees, unchanged from the same period ‌a ⁠year ago.

Non-tax revenue at 3.5 trillion rupees, compared with 3.6 trillion rupees a year ago.
– ​Total government ​expenditure at ⁠8.8 trillion rupees compared with 7.5 trillion rupees ​a year earlier.
– Capital expenditure, ​or ⁠spending on building physical infrastructure, at 2.5 trillion rupees against 2.2 ⁠trillion ​rupees a year ​ago.
($1 = 94.6600 Indian rupees)

Reporting by Shubham Batra in ​New Delhi; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee

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