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India's April-May fiscal deficit at 9.6% of full-year target

June 30, 2026 7:02 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Rupee installation at the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) headquarters in Mumbai, India, April 8, 2026. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

NEW DELHI, ‌June 30 (Reuters) - ​India's ​fiscal deficit in April-May was at 1.62 trillion ‌rupees ($17.11 billion), or 9.6% of the ⁠estimate for the financial year ending ‌March 31, government ‌data showed on Tuesday.

The deficit in the same period last year ​stood at 131.6 billion Indian rupees.

India has set the ⁠fiscal deficit target for 2026/27 at 4.3% of ​the GDP, or 16.96 trillion rupees.

- Net tax receipts at ​3.5 trillion rupees, unchanged ‌from the same period a year ago.

- Non-tax ⁠revenue at 3.5 trillion rupees, compared with 3.6 trillion rupees a ⁠year ago.

- Total government expenditure at 8.8 ​trillion rupees compared with 7.5 trillion rupees a year earlier.

- Capital expenditure, or ‌spending on building physical infrastructure, at 2.5 trillion rupees ‌against 2.2 trillion rupees a ⁠year ago.

($1 = 94.6600 ‌Indian rupees)

(Reporting ​by Shubham Batra in New Delhi; Editing by Nivedita ‌Bhattacharjee)



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