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Telangana’s revenue receipts continued to grow at a moderate pace at the end of the first two months of the current financial year (2025-26). The revenue expenditure in April and May was significant.
10.2% Revenue Receipts and 12.5% Revenue Expenditure
The overall revenue receipts remained at ₹23,425 crore, just 10.2% of the ₹2.29 lakh crore projected in the budget estimates. And the overall revenue expenditure in April and May of the fiscal year was ₹28,463 crore, which is 12.5% of the ₹2.26 lakh crore projected for the year.
Revenue receipts
What are revenue receipts?
It is the amount earned through tax and non-tax sources, grants in aid and borrowings. It is used for expenditure including payment of salaries, pensions, on welfare schemes including on subsidies.
Tax revenue was little higher at ₹22,609 crore constituting 12.9% of the ₹1.75 lakh crore projected for the year while revenue through Stamps and Registration was ₹7,919 crore of ₹19,087 crore of the budget estimates.
The State Excise duties too registered moderate growth from ₹1,288 crore at the end of April to ₹3,060 crore at May end, marking 11.08% of the ₹27,623 crore projected for the fiscal.
Non tax revenue and grants in aid & contributions remained sluggish at ₹729 crore and ₹86.73 crore respectively, comprising 2.31% and 0.38% of the budget estimates.
Borrowings contributed a major chunk of receipts at ₹9,389 crore at the end of May, 17.39% of the ₹54,009 crore of budget estimates.
Revenue expenditure
What is expenditure?
It includes the amount spent on payment of interest, salaries, pensions, subsidies and others including on welfare schemes.
On the expenditure side, interest payments, salaries & wages and pensions continued to be on the higher side. Interest payment, for instance, at May end was ₹4,166 crore, 21.51% of the ₹19,369 crore of budget estimates and the government incurred expenditure of ₹8,087 crore on salaries & wages, 18.18% of the ₹44,478 crore projected in budget estimates.
Expenditure on account of pension payment was still higher at ₹3,070 crore, 23.42% of the ₹13,019 crore of budget estimates while the subsidy component crossed ₹5,000 crore mark reaching ₹5,199 crore, 31.81% of the ₹16,345 crore of budget estimates.
The State registered revenue deficit of ₹5,037 crore at the end of May against ₹2,738 crore surplus projected for the fiscal and fiscal deficit was ₹9,389 crore, according to the provisional details submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. The State’s primary deficit at the end of the first two months was ₹5,223 crore.
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