Prompted by high economic growth, the government is proposing to wipe out revenue deficit and reduce fiscal deficit to three per cent of the gross domestic product in 2008-09.
"We are on track to bring down fiscal deficit to 3.3 per cent this year and to three per cent in the next year and hopefully remove revenue deficit in 2008-09", Finance Secretary D Subbaro said while speaking at the launch of the OECD economic survey of the Indian economy in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act requires the government to reduce fiscal deficit to three per cent of the GDP and eliminate revenue deficit by 2008-09.
High GDP growth of 9.4 per cent in 2006-07 and the likelihood of about 8.5
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