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Achieving fiscal deficit not a cause for concern: Arun Jaitley

28 Oct 2015 Evaluate

Amid buzz of government finding it difficult to meet the disinvestment target, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that there is no cause for concern on fiscal deficit and the government will meet its target for the current fiscal, though there are challenges on the disinvestment front. He said that lower receipts will not upset the fiscal maths and there will be no difficulty in achieving the fiscal deficit target of 3.9 per cent set for the current fiscal year.

Speaking at India Africa Forum Submit in New Delhi, the FM further said that “I had deliberately kept a very modest fiscal deficit target that is the movement from 4.1 per cent which eventually became 4 per cent to 3.9 per cent (in 2015-16). The manner in which tax revenues and expenditure are moving, I don't see there's going to be any difficulty'.

Acknowledging that disinvestment is a challenge mainly on account of global problem, Jaitley said that metal stocks which were the large part of the kitty that the government has planned for the current fiscal year are not performing well. Earlier, Union Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha too had said that the Government’s disinvestment target is fully dependent on market conditions.

Recently, it was reported that the department of disinvestment (DoD) has said that it wants the PSUs stake sale target to be more than halved to Rs 30,000 crore for the current financial year, stating that this target seems more reasonable given that there is no big stock to sell. For the fiscal year 2015-16, the government has targeted to raise Rs 69,500 crore through disinvestment, 180 per cent higher than the total amount garnered from PSU share sales in the previous fiscal. Out of the total budgeted target, Rs 41,000 crore is to come from minority stake sale in PSUs and the remaining Rs 28,500 crore from the strategic stake sale. 

 

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