New Delhi: India’s economic affairs secretary on Monday said that the country’s fiscal and revenue deficits would be lower than the revised estimates for the 2017-18 fiscal year.

After taking into consideration almost all revenues and expenditure, “I can confirm that both fiscal deficit and revenue deficit are lower than the revised estimates for 2017-18,” Subhash Chandra Garg said on Twitter.

India revised its fiscal deficit target to 3.5 per cent of GDP from an earlier 3.2 per cent of GDP for the 2017-18 fiscal year that ended on March 31.

Earlier, Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia told reporters India has raised 9.95 trillion rupees ($152.82 billion) in direct taxes in 2017-18 compared with a collection target of 9.8 trillion rupees.