NEW DELHI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - India's fiscal deficit for the nine months through December touched 9.93
trillion rupees ($121.22 billion), nearly 60% of annual
estimates, government data showed on Tuesday.
Net tax receipts rose to 15.56 trillion rupees while total
expenditure was 28.18 trillion rupees, the data showed.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget
for the next financial year on Wednesday, where she is widely
expected to say that India would meet its fiscal deficit target
of 6.4% for the current year.
($1 = 81.9180 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Sarita Chaganti Singh; Editing by Krishna N. Das)
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