TABLE 2.1
                         Receipts  and  Expenditure of the Central Government
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			      1980-81 1990-91 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95  1995-96 1996-97
									 (RE)	 (BE)
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						  (Rs. crore)
1.	Revenue receipts (2+3)	12419	54954	74128	75453	91082	110191	130345
2.	Tax Revenue	         9358	42978	54044	53449	67454	 81088	 97310
	(net of State’s share)
3.	Non-Tax Revenue	         3061	11976	20084	22004	23628	 29103	 33035
4.	Revenue Expenditure	14455	73516	92702  108169  122112	143522	161820
        of which
	(a)Interest Payments     2604	21498	31075	36741	44060	52000	 60000
	(b)Subsidies	         1851	12158	11995	12864	12982	13726	 16320
	(c)Defence Expenditure	 3604	10874	12109	14978	16426	18835	 18854
5.	Revenue deficit	         2037	18562	18574	32716	31029	33331	 31475
6.	Capital Receipts	 7261	38997	36178	55440	68696	65213	 67737
        of which
	(a)Recovery of loans	 2104	5712	 6356	 6191	 6345	 7411	  7048
	(b)Other receipts			 1961	  -48	 5607	 1392	  5001
	(mainly PSU disinvestment)
7.	Capital expenditure	 7801	31782	29916	33684	38627	39482	 42840
8.	Total expenditure       22256	105298 122618  141853  160739  183004	204660
        of which
	(a)Plan expenditure	 8994	28365	36660	43662	47378	48684	 54685
	(b)Non-plan expenditure	13262	76933	85958	98191  113361  134320	149975
9.	Fiscal Deficit	         7733	44632	40173	60257	57705	64010	 62266
                                                   (As per cent of GDP)
1.	Revenue receipts (2+3)	  9.1	 10.3	 10.5	  9.3	  9.6	 10.0	  10.4
2.	Tax Revenue	          6.9	  8.0	  7.7	  6.6	  7.1	  7.4	   7.8
	(net of State’s share)
3.	Non-Tax Revenue	          2.3	  2.2	  2.8	  2.7	  2.5	  2.6	   2.6
4.	Revenue Expenditure	 10.6	 13.7	 13.1	 13.4	 12.8	 13.1	  12.9
	of which
	(a)Interest payments	  1.9	  4.0	  4.4	  4.5	  4.6	  4.7	   4.8
	(b)Subsidies	          1.4	  2.3	  1.7	  1.6	  1.4	  1.2	   1.3
	(c)Defence expenditure	  2.6	  2.0	  1.7	  1.8	  1.7	  1.7	   1.5
5.	Revenue deficit	          1.5	  3.5	  2.6	  4.0	  3.3	  3.0	   2.5
6.	Capital Receipts	  5.3	  7.3	  5.1	  6.8	  7.2	  5.9	   5.4
	of which
	(a)Recovery of loans	  1.5	  1.1	  0.9	  0.8	  0.7	  0.7	   0.6
	(b)Other receipts	  0.3	 neg.	  0.6	  0.1	  0.4
	(mainly PSU disinvestment)
7.	Capital expenditure	  5.7	  5.9	  4.2	  4.2	  4.1	  3.6	   3.4
8.	Total expenditure	 16.4	 19.7	 17.4	 17.5	 16.9	 16.7	  16.3
	of which
	(a)Plan expenditure	  6.6	  5.3	  5.2	  5.4	  5.0	  4.4	   4.4
	(b)Non-plan expenditure	  9.8	 14.4	 12.2	 12.1	 11.9	 12.2	  12.0
9.	Fiscal Deficit	          5.7	  8.3	  5.7	  7.4	  6.1	  5.8	   5.0
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Note: The figures may not add up to the total because of rounding approximations.
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