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)
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