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May's Fiscal Deficit Hits 52% Of Budgeted Target
28 Jun 2019, 04:46 PM IST
Fiscal deficit in May stood at Rs 3.66 lakh crore ($53.04 billion), or 52 per cent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year, government data showed on Friday.
Net tax receipts in the first two months of the fiscal year were Rs 1.15 lakh crore, while total expenditure was Rs 5.13 lakh crore, government data showed.
The government has set a fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent for 2019/20, same as 2018/19.
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