India's fiscal deficit from April 2009 to February 2010 was Rs 3.81 trillion ($84.7 billion),or 92 per cent of the full-year target,the government said in a statement on Wednesday. Tax receipts were Rs 3.59 trillion and total expenditure was Rs 8.58 trillion for the first 11 months of the 2009/10 fiscal year. In July 2009,the government had forecast a fiscal deficit of Rs 4 trillion,or 6.8 per cent of gross domestic product,for the current financial year.
