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India will face challenges in sticking to the fiscal consolidation roadmap: S&P

01 Feb 2016 Evaluate

After Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan cautioned against the fiscal profligacy to spur growth, global rating agency, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has said that India will face challenges in sticking to the fiscal consolidation roadmap as the expected revenues may not be fully realised and subsidy cuts may be delayed. Rajan had said that consolidated fiscal deficit of the Centre and states rose to 7.2 percent in 2015 from 7 percent in the previous year.

S&P said that India's fiscal challenges reflect both revenue under performance and constraints on expenditure (mainly related to subsidies for food, energy, and fertilisers). In the medium term, S&P expects improved fiscal performance primarily from revenue-side improvements, brought about by the planned introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and administrative efforts to expand the tax base.

However, sometimes back S&P had clarified that India's sovereign ratings will not be impacted adversely if the government decides to step up public spending to accelerate economic growth and defer fiscal deficit targets.

Earlier Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said that there are pros and cons of pushing growth by higher public spending and he would take a view on the issue at the time of Budget after in a pre-budget meeting with finance minister, economists pitched for relaxation in fiscal consolidation targets to step up public spending on infrastructure.

The government had last year deviated from the fiscal consolidation path, postponing reduction in fiscal deficit target by a year. The original target was to bring down fiscal deficit to 3.6 percent of the GDP in 2015-16 but it has been postponed by a year. Now, government is targeting 3.9 percent in the current fiscal.

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