Fiscal deficit slips to 0.8% of full-year target at May-end 2025: CGA data
The fiscal deficit, or gap between the government's expenditure and revenue, had touched 11.9 per cent of the Budget Estimates (BE) for 2025-26 or Rs 1.86 lakh crore in April.
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