Breaching the full-year revised target of the current fiscal year 2017-18, India’s fiscal deficit, the difference between government expenditure and revenue, stood at Rs 6.77 lakh crore during April-January 2017-18 period, which is 113.7% of Rs 5.95 lakh crore revised Budget Estimates (BE) target for FY18, mainly due to higher expenditure. In the same period last year, the fiscal deficit was at 105.7% of BE.
According to the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) data, the government’s revenue deficit was at Rs 4.80 lakh crore during the first 10 months of 2017-18, which work out 109.2% of the revised BE, while Net tax receipts stood at 9.7 lakh crore during the reported period. Besides, total receipts from revenue and non-debt capital of the government during the period amount to Rs 11.63 lakh crore or 71.7% of revised estimate.
The data also showed that the government's total expenditure was Rs 18.39 lakh crore at January-end, or 83% of Rs 22.17 lakh crore budget estimate. Capital expenditure during April-January of 2017-18 was Rs 2.64 lakh crore, or 96.9%, of the full-year revised estimate, while revenue expenditure during the current fiscal till January came in at Rs 15.75 lakh crore or 81% of the full-year revised estimate.
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