5.1.1 Statistical presentation

• Data are disseminated in crores of rupees (1 crore=10 million) covering the operations of budgetary central government.
  
  
• Data are disseminated for the following components:

1. "Revenue receipts", broken down into tax and nontax revenue. (Grants are included under nontax revenue.);
   
   
2. "Capital receipts" (capital revenue).
   
   
3. "Plan expenditure", broken down into current expenditure, so-called "revenue expenditure", and capital expenditure (with loan disbursements separately identified).
   
   
4. "Nonplan expenditure", broken down into current expenditure, so-called "revenue expenditure" (with interest payments identified as a separate component) and capital expenditure (with loan disbursements separately identified).
   
   
5. Various deficit concepts:
   
   (a) the "revenue deficit" ["revenue receipts" less "revenue expenditure"];
   (b) the "fiscal deficit" ["revenue receipts", plus capital receipts for the recovery of loans and other receipts, less total expenditure]; and
   (c) the "primary deficit" [the fiscal deficit, less interest payments].
   
   
6. Financing of the fiscal deficit broken down into external financing and domestic financing, with domestic financing further broken down into:
   
   (a) market borrowings;
   (b) securities against small savings;
   (c) deposit scheme for retiring employees;
   (d) state provident funds, etc;
   (e) special deposits of nongovernment provident funds, insurance companies, etc.;
   (f) national small savings fund (with -i-savings deposits and certificates, -ii- public provident funds, -iii- investment in securities, -iv- income/expenditure of NSSF seperately identified);
   (g) others;
   (h)changes in cash balances;
   (i) investment/disinvestment of surplus cash; and
   (j) ways and means advances.

• The fiscal year begins on April 1 and ends on March 31.

4.1.1 Periodicity

4.1.2 Timeliness

Within one month after the end of the reference month for all months except the last month of the fiscal year (that is, March), when the data are released within two months after the end of the reference month.

5.1.3 Advance release calendar

• An advance release calendar which gives at least one-quarter-ahead notice of the precise release dates is disseminated on the Controller General of Accounts' Internet website (http://www.cgaindia.org/html/arc0304.htm). A notice to this effect is issued in a regular press release.

5.1.4 Simultaneous release

• The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by posting on the Controller General of Accounts' Internet website (http://www.cgaindia.org/html/macdata0.htm). Details of the financing data are disseminated at  (http://www.cgaindia.org/html/dtl20809.htm). A notice to this effect is issued in a regular press release
  
  The data are subsequently disseminated in the Monthly Abstract of Statistics, published by the Central Statistical Organization of the Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics

• The monthly data on central government operations are disseminated by the Controller General of Accounts as a service to the public.
  
  
• Compilation of the data on central government operations is governed by Articles 112 and 150 of the Constitution of India.

1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination

• The constitution is available in English and all major languages of India from book stores selling government publications or from:
  
  Controller of Publications,
  Civil Lines,
  Delhi - 110006, India.
  Phone: 91 11 2381 9689.
  Fax: 91 11 2381 7846.
  
  A summary of the terms of Article 112 of the Constitution is also published in the Key to the Budget Documents, which can be obtained from the Parliament (Lok Sabha) Sales Counter.

1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release

• No officials outside the Ministry of Finance, of which the Controller General of Accounts is a part, have access to the data prior to their release to the public.

1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products

• No ministerial commentary accompanies the release of the data.

4.3.1 Revision schedule

• The data are provisional when first released. The data become final with the publication of the final annual audited data in the annual Finance Accounts.

1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques.

• There have been no major changes in methodology in recent years.

5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques

• The data are compiled in accordance with the Government Accounting Rules, 1990. Copies of this document are available from:
  
  Controller of Publications,
  Civil Lines,
  Delhi - 110006, India.
  Phone: 91 11 2381 9689.
  Fax: 91 11 2381 7846.