NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s fiscal deficit in April-July was 4.68 trillion rupees ($53.48 billion) or 29.9% of the estimate for the financial year ending March 31, government data showed on Friday.
KEY NUMBERS
* Net tax receipts at 6.6 trillion rupees compared with 7.1 trillion rupees a year earlier
* Non-tax revenue at 4 trillion rupees compared with 3 trillion rupees a year ago
* Total government expenditure at 15.6 trillion rupees compared with 13 trillion rupees a year earlier
* Capital expenditure, or spending on building physical infrastructure, was 3.5 trillion rupees, against 2.6 trillion rupees a year ago
($1 = 87.5060 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nikunj Ohri; Editing by Harikrishnan Nair)
