India's April-September fiscal deficit at 36.5% of 2025/26 target

FILE PHOTO: 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/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's fiscal deficit in April-September was 5.73 trillion rupees ($65.19 billion) or 36.5% of the estimate for the financial year ending March 31, government data showed on Friday.

KEY NUMBERS

* Net tax receipts at 12.3 trillion rupees, down from 12.7 trillion rupees collected in the same period a year ago.

* Non-tax revenue at 4.7 trillion rupees compared with 3.6 trillion rupees a year ago.

* Total government expenditure at 23 trillion rupees compared with 21.1 trillion rupees a year earlier.

* Capital expenditure, or spending on building physical infrastructure, at 5.8 trillion rupees against 4.1 trillion rupees a year ago.

($1 = 87.8950 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Nikunj Ohri & Sarita Chaganti Singh; Editing by Janane Venkatraman and Mrigank Dhaniwala)