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Section 4: Fiscal management principles.

The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003Central Act · Act 39 of 2003

[4. Fiscal management principles.--(1) The Central Government shall,--

(a) take appropriate measures to limit the fiscal deficit upto three per cent. of gross domestic product by the 31st March, 2021;

(b) endeavour to ensure that--

(i) the general Government debt does not exceed sixty per cent.;

(ii) the Central Government debt does not exceed forty per cent.,

of gross domestic product by the end of financial year 2024-2025;

(c) not give additional guarantees with respect to any loan on security of the Consolidated Fund of India in excess of one-half per cent. of gross domestic product, in any financial year;

(d) endeavour to ensure that the fiscal targets specified in clauses (a) and (b) are not exceeded after stipulated target dates.

(2) The Central Government shall prescribe the annual targets for reduction of fiscal deficit for the period beginning from the date of commencement of Part XV of Chapter VIII of the Finance Act, 2018 (13 of 2018), and ending on the 31st March, 2021:

Provided that exceeding annual fiscal deficit target due to ground or grounds of national security, act of war, national calamity, collapse of agriculture severely affecting farm output and incomes, structural reforms in the economy with unanticipated fiscal implications, decline in real output growth of a quarter by at least three per cent. points below its average of the previous four quarters, may be allowed for the purposes of this section.

(3) Any deviation from fiscal deficit target under sub-section (2) shall not exceed one-half per cent. of the gross domestic product in a year.

(4) The Central Government shall, in case of increase in real output growth of a quarter by at least three per cent. points above its average of the previous four quarters, reduce the fiscal deficit by at least one-quarter per cent. of the gross domestic product in a year.

(5) Where the fiscal deficit is allowed to vary from the target prescribed under the proviso to sub-section (2) or deviation is initiated under sub-section (4), a statement explaining the reasons thereof and the path of return to annual prescribed targets under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be, before both the Houses of Parliament.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
Section4
Marginal noteFiscal management principles.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it1

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 13 of 2018. . Subs. by Act 13 of 2018, s. 213, for section 4 (w.e.f. 31-3-2018).

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