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India's fiscal deficit above 2016/17 target in 11 months to Feb

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Reuters NEW DELHI
Last Updated : Mar 31 2017 | 4:07 PM IST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's fiscal deficit in the first 11 months to February was 6.06 trillion rupees ($93.40 billion), or 113.4 percent of the budgeted target for the fiscal year ending in March 2017, government data showed on Friday.

The fiscal deficit was 107.1 percent of the full-year target during the same period a year ago.

Net tax receipts in the first 11 months of the 2016/17 fiscal year were 8.85 trillion rupees, the data showed.

The government's tax receipts usually surge in the last month of the fiscal year, helping it meet the budgeted full-year fiscal deficit target.

New Delhi last month reiterated that it would meet the 2016/17 fiscal deficit target of 3.5 percent of gross domestic product.

($1 = 64.8850 Indian rupees)

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(Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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First Published: Mar 31 2017 | 3:58 PM IST

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