The Government set-up panel to review the working of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act has sought the views of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on the path to fiscal consolidation. The FRBM Panel is likely to submit its report by January 13, 2017, after factoring in the inputs of the RBI.
FRBM is likely to suggest a fiscal roadmap in its report and might also suggest deviating from the current 3 percent fiscal deficit target in 2017-18 and suggest a specific target for fiscal deficit instead of range. Among other things, the panel has been examining the need and feasibility of having a ‘fiscal deficit range’ as the target in place of the existing fixed numbers (percentage of GDP) as the goal. However, the panel report is unlikely to be made public until Budget.
The Committee was originally slated to submit its report by October 31, but exceeded the time table after the government expanded their scope of work to include examination of the recommendations of 14th Finance Commission as also of the Expenditure Management Commission (EMC). The five member committee, under former revenue secretary N K Singh, was set up to review the working of the FRBM Act over the last 12 years and suggest the way forward ‘keeping in view the broad objective of fiscal consolidation and prudence and the changes required in the context of the uncertainty and volatility in the global economy’. The other members of the committee, which was announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech, include former finance secretary Sumit Bose, Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, the then RBI deputy governor Urjit Patel and NIPFP Director Rathin Roy.
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