Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her 2023 Union Budget speech that the central government is expected to achieve its fiscal deficit target for the current financial year (FY23) of 6.4 percent of GDP, and is targeting a <a class="storyTags" href="https://www.business-standard.com/about/what-is-fiscal-deficit" rel="noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;