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प्रश्न
Explain 'Revenue Deficit in a Government budget? What does it indicate?
What is revenue deficit in government budget?
Explain the meaning of Revenue deficit
What is revenue deficit?
Define revenue deficit
उत्तर
Revenue deficit means the excess of revenue expenditure of the government over its revenue receipts. Revenue deficit = Revenue expenditure − Revenue receipts
Revenue deficit is indicated to the government as follows:
i. Regular receipts of the government are not enough to meet regular expenditures.
ii. The government is using up savings of other sectors of the economy to meet its consumption expenditure.
iii. This gives a signal to either reduce its expenditure or increase its revenue. Curtail expenditure by taking steps to avoid unproductive expenses and increase revenue from various sources of tax and non-tax revenues
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S. No. | Content | Rs (in crores) |
1. | Revenue Expenditure | 100 |
2. | Capital Receipts | 40 |
3. | Net Borrowings | 38 |
4. | Net Interest Payments | 27 |
5. | Tax Revenue | 50 |
6. | Non-tax Revenue | 15 |
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Figure 1: Trends in Fiscal deficit and Primary deficit |
Figure 2: Fiscal deficit as a percent of Budget estimate |
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S.No. | Items | 2021-22 (₹ in crore) |
(i) | Revenue Receipts | 20 |
(ii) | Capital Expenditure | 15 |
(iii) | Revenue Deficit | 10 |
(iv) | Non-debt creating capital receipts | 50% of revenue receipts |
(v) | Interest Payments | 4 |