NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s fiscal deficit for the first two months in the financial year that started April 1 touched 2,102.87 billion rupees ($25.63 billion), nearly 11.8% of annual estimates, government data showed on Friday.
April-May net tax receipts were 2780.45 billion rupees or 11.9% of the annual estimate, lower than 3075.89 billion rupees in the same period last year, per the data.
Total expenditure during the period was 6259.78 billion rupees or 13.9% of the annual goal, higher than the government’s spending last year in April-May at 5857.74 billion rupees.
India aims to end the current fiscal year with a budget deficit of 5.9%.
($1 = 82.0567 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Shivangi Acharya and Sarita Chaganti Singh in New Delhi; Editing by Christina Fincher)
