{"id":4912,"date":"2026-03-30T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/03\/30\/centres-fiscal-deficit-at-80-4-of-fy26-target-by-february-cga-data\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:37:51","slug":"centres-fiscal-deficit-at-80-4-of-fy26-target-by-february-cga-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"Centre\u2019s fiscal deficit at 80.4% of FY26 target by February: CGA data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-129899856,imgsize-910147,width-400,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Centre\u2019s fiscal deficit at 80.4% of FY26 target by February: CGA data\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Centre\u2019s fiscal deficit stood at Rs 12.52 lakh crore at the end of February, accounting for 80.4 per cent of the full-year target for 2025-26, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Monday, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>This compares with 85.8 per cent of the annual target achieved in the corresponding period last year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The government has pegged the fiscal deficit for 2025-26 at 4.4 per cent of GDP, or Rs 15.58 lakh crore.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>As per the monthly accounts released by the CGA, the Centre\u2019s total receipts reached Rs 27.91 lakh crore during April-February, or 82 per cent of the budget estimates.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>This included net tax revenue of Rs 21.45 lakh crore and non-tax revenue of Rs 5.8 lakh crore.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Total expenditure during the period stood at Rs 40.44 lakh crore, which is 81.5 per cent of the full-year budget target, the data showed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/centres-fiscal-deficit-at-80-4-of-fy26-target-by-february-cga-data\/articleshow\/129899812.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre\u2019s fiscal deficit stood at Rs 12.52 lakh crore at the end of February, accounting for 80.4 per cent of the full-year target for 2025-26, according to data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Monday, PTI reported.This compares with 85.8 per cent of the annual target achieved in the corresponding period&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}