Revenue receipts continue to be sluggish with borrowings constituting major chunk

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The Telangana State government’s gross receipts remained sluggish aft completion of 7 months of the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26.

The wide gross receipts astatine the extremity of October are pegged astatine ₹ 1.45 lakh crore, conscionable 50.95 per cent of the ₹2.84 lakh crore projected successful the budge estimates for the existent fiscal. Borrowings and different liabilities astatine ₹50,541 crore much than one-third of the full receipts. The State raised implicit ₹5,000 crore arsenic borrowings successful October, chiefly marketplace borrowings done auction of securities conducted by the Reserve Bank of India. This was nevertheless smaller compared with September erstwhile the State raised much than ₹11,000 crore arsenic borrowings to conscionable the contiguous requirements.

On the gross front, net done Goods and Services Tax and Sales Tax registered dependable maturation reaching ₹30,569 crore (against ₹59,704 crore of fund estimates) and ₹19,057 crore (against ₹37,463 crore of fund estimates). The State’s stock of Union Taxes was awesome astatine ₹ 11,954 crore, 65 per cent of the ₹18,384 crore projected for the fiscal.

Revenue done State Excise duties was ₹13,296 crore, much than ₹4,000 crore higher than ₹8,927 crore astatine September-end. The summation was attributed to the adjacent to ₹3,000 crore received arsenic non refundable interest for exertion for retail liquor outlets and the archetypal instalment of retail excise taxation paid by the palmy bidders.

Interest outgo continued to beryllium higher astatine the extremity of October reaching ₹16,529 crore, 85.34 per cent of the ₹19,369 crore projected successful the fund estimates with 5 much months remaining for the fiscal year’s completion. The full expenditure towards involvement outgo astatine the extremity of the fiscal is expected to beryllium astir ₹25,000 crore going by the quantum being paid each month.

Expenditure connected relationship of outgo of salaries and pensions excessively continued to beryllium higher astatine ₹27,663 crore and ₹10,853 crore respectively against ₹44,478 crore and ₹13,109 crore projected for the twelvemonth successful the fund estimates.

The State’s fiscal shortage astatine October-end stood astatine ₹50,541 crore, 93.58 per cent of the ₹54,009 crore projected successful the fund estimates portion it reported a gross shortage of ₹10,113 crore against surplus of ₹ 2,738 crore projected. Primary shortage astatine the extremity of October was ₹ 34,011 crore, person to ₹ 34,640 crore of the fund estimates with 5 much months to go.

Published - November 19, 2025 07:48 p.m. IST

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