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India to use revenue surge to fund welfare drives, not beat fiscal deficit target – sources

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NEW DELHI, Nov 5 – India will utilise a big bump in revenue collection to fund welfare programmes instead of trying to beat its fiscal deficit target or lower borrowing, two government sources told Reuters. The country is set to exceed its 2020/21 revenue collection target of 15.45 […]

Arun Jaitley says confident of meeting fiscal deficit target

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open view web desk NEW DELHI – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday that the government is confident of meeting its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent of gross domestic product in the current fiscal year, a day after outlining a number of measures to bolster the […]

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