India’s April-October fiscal deficit at 52.6% of 2025/26 target

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s fiscal deficit in April-October was 8.25 trillion rupees ($92.26 billion) or 52.6% of the estimate for the financial year ending March 31, government data showed on Friday.

KEY NUMBERS

* Net tax receipts at 12.74 trillion rupees, down from 13.05 trillion rupees collected in the same period a year ago.

* Non-tax revenue at 4.89 trillion rupees compared with 4 trillion rupees a year ago.

* Total government expenditure at 26.26 trillion rupees compared with 24.7 trillion rupees a year earlier.

* Capital expenditure, or spending on building physical infrastructure, at 6.18 trillion rupees against 4.7 trillion rupees a year ago.

($1 = 89.4240 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Sarita Chaganti Singh; Editing by Eileen Soreng)

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