Smokescreen: To please new govt, finance ministry to paint a pretty picture for next year state’s policy of understating expenditures and overstating revenues

Budget makers are considering setting next year’s budget deficit target at 5.6% of total national output. The decision seems to be a continuation of the state’s policy of understating expenditures and overstating revenues: experts say a consolidation of over Rs400 billion by next year seems...Smokescreen: To please new govt, finance ministry to paint a pretty picture for next year state’s policy of understating expenditures and overstating revenues