India's April-July fiscal deficit at 26.8% of 2026/27 target

August 31, 2026 6:44 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past an installation of the Rupee logo and Indian currency coins outside the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) headquarters in Mumbai, India, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

NEW DELHI, ‌Aug 31 (Reuters) - ​India's ​fiscal deficit in the months of April-July stood at ‌4.55 trillion rupees ($47.81 billion), or 26.8% ⁠of the target for the financial year ‌ending March 31, government ‌data showed on Monday.

The deficit in the same period last year ​stood at 4.7 trillion rupees.

India has set its fiscal deficit target ⁠for the financial year 2027 at 4.3% of ​the GDP, or 16.96 trillion rupees.

• Net tax receipts stood at ​8.5 trillion rupees, ‌compared with 6.6 trillion rupees a year ago.

• Non-tax revenue ⁠was at 4.2 trillion rupees, compared with 4 trillion rupees a year ⁠ago.

• Total government expenditure came to 17.6 trillion ​rupees, compared with 15.6 trillion rupees a year earlier.

• Capital expenditure, or spending on ‌building physical infrastructure, stood at 4.5 trillion rupees against ‌3.5 trillion rupees a year ago.

($1 = ⁠95.1625 Indian rupees)

(Reporting ‌by Nikunj ​Ohri and Shivangi Acharya; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Nivedita ‌Bhattacharjee)



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