India will stick to its budgeted fiscal deficit target for the coming fiscal year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was quoted on Saturday as saying. Jaitley dismissed concerns that any sharp increase in global oil prices could make it difficult for the government to attain its deficit target for the next fiscal year, which starts in April, Indian daily The Economic Times reported.
"I can't at this stage say that there would be any slippage. I am sure we will be able to maintain the target quite well," Jaitley told a joint news conference with Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel in New Delhi.