Government has asserted that it is committed to promoting and strengthening inclusive and sustainable development by ensuring proper and effective utilization of funds provided in the Annual Budget without compromising fiscal consolidation. The government has said that it will stick to its fiscal consolidation roadmap, without comprising on development spending and expenditure budgeted for ongoing fiscal.
The fiscal deficit i.e. the gap between expenditure and revenue, for the entire current fiscal year has been pegged at Rs 5.55 lakh crore (3.9 per cent of the GDP). As a result of sound prudent policies formulated during 2015-16, the fiscal deficit at the end of November is Rs 4.83 lakh crore or 87 per cent of the Budget Estimate for this fiscal. Similarly, the Revenue Deficit was at Rs 2, 64,404 crore in November 2015 down 20 per cent or Rs 65,087 crore over November 2014. Total expenditure also increased from 60 per cent of BE in November 2014 to 64 per cent in November 2015.
Against the Budgeted expenditure of Rs 1, 35,257 crore, the government has already incurred Rs 97,788 crore (72 per cent of the Budget Estimate) as compared to Rs 62,146 crore (51 per cent of BE) in the corresponding period last year.
Besides, the fiscal situation is an improvement over the previous year when the fiscal deficit was then 98.9 per cent of Budget Estimates 2014-15, where there is a decrease of Rs 41,611 crore over November 2014 figure.
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