Govt meets fiscal deficit target of 3.5% for 2017-18
The government has met its revised fiscal deficit target for 2017-18 at 3.53% of the Gross Domestic Product, government data showed. The government had originally set a fiscal deficit target of 3.2% of GDP but revised it to 3.5% at the time of Budget 2018. The revenue deficit during fiscal 2017-18 was â¹4.43 trillion or 101% of the Budget estimate. 