NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India reported a fiscal deficit of 5.25 trillion rupees ($81.36 billion) for April-October, or 96.1 percent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year that ends in March 2018.
The deficit was 79.3 percent of the full-year target during the same period a year ago.
Net tax receipts in the first seven months of 2017/18 fiscal year were 6.34 trillion rupees, government data showed on Thursday.
($1 = 64.5275 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Manoj Kumar)
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