The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission on pay revision of the central government employees is expected to be submitted to the government this year, the Lok Sabha was today informed.

 Responding to a supplementary, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, ”Additional  Tencent revenue share for the state being provided by the Centre from this year and the recommendations of the pay commission– that are expected to be made this year– are bound to put additional burden on the fiscal situation.”

“Keeping this in mind, we have opted to extend the deadline from two to three  years for attaining the targeted mark of fiscal budgetary deficit,” he said.

Presently, the government’s annual income is around Rs 11.5 lakh crore against the expenditure of around Rs 17.5 lakh crore leaving a budgetary deficit of about Rs 5 lakh crore.  – UNI