India’s fiscal deficit between April and September this year was ₹5.73 trillion ($65.19 billion), or 36.5 per cent of the estimate for FY26.
It was 29 per cent of the budget estimates in the first six months of FY25.
In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit was ₹5,731.23 billion during the period.
The central government projects the fiscal deficit during FY26 at 4.4 per cent of the GDP, or ₹15.69 trillion.