Revenue deficit, gross fiscal deficit and fiscal ratios of State Governments, RBI State Finances 2023-24 to 2025-26

Description

The Reserve Bank of India compiles the budgets of the State Governments and the UTs of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir into its annual study State Finances: A Study of Budgets. Deficit position and fiscal ratios of each State and UT in RBI's State Finances study. It joins three statements: the revenue deficit or surplus (revenue receipts and revenue expenditure), the gross fiscal deficit or surplus (expenditure and receipts) and the major fiscal indicators, ratios in percent such as own revenue to revenue expenditure, interest payment to revenue receipts, committed expenditure to revenue expenditure and pension to revenue expenditure. Amounts are in rupees crore (one crore is ten million); a deficit is positive and a surplus negative. Three editions are included (2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26). Each edition gives the accounts of the year before last, the revised estimate of last year and the budget estimate of the budget year, so a year can appear in several editions with different estimate types and slightly different values. The table has 3,162 rows, one per State or UT, reference period, estimate type and measure, with the State name as printed beside its LGD code.