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The FRBMA was enacted in 2003, which set targets for the government to reduce fiscal deficits. What does FRBMA stand for?

A.
Fiscal Relations and Budget Maintenance Act
B.
Financial Relations and Budget Management Act
C.
Financial Responsibility and Budget Maintenance Act
D.
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act

Solution:

The correct answer is Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act.The FRBM Act aims to introduce transparency in India's fiscal management systems.The Act's long-term objective is for India to achieve fiscal stability and give the RBI flexibility to deal with inflation in India.In 2016, the government set up a committee under N K Singh to review the FRBM Act.In News In 2021-22, the government had not provided a target for the next three years and will amend the FRBM Act to accommodate the higher fiscal deficit.The fiscal deficit is targeted at 6.8% of GDP in 2020-21 (4.6% in 2019-20)In Union Budget 2021 speech, the Finance Minister has announced the government's aim to steadily reduce the fiscal deficit to 4.5% of GDP by 2025-26.Additional InformationFRBM Act:It was enacted in August 2003.It aims to make the Central government responsible for ensuring inter-generational equity in fiscal management and long-term macro-economic stability.The Act envisages the setting of limits on the Central governments debt and deficits.It limited the fiscal deficit to 3% of the GDP.To ensure that the States to are financially prudent, the 12th Finance Commissions recommendations in 2004 linked debt relief to States with their enactment of similar laws.The States have since enacted their own respective Financial Responsibility Legislation, which sets the same 3% of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) cap on their annual budget deficits.It also mandates greater transparency in fiscal operations of the Central government and the conduct of fiscal policy in a medium-term framework.The Budget of the Union government includes a Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Statement that specifies the annual revenue and fiscal deficit goals over a three-year horizon.The rules for implementing the Act were notified in July 2004. The rules were amended in 2018, and most recently to the setting of a target of 3.1% for March 2023.The NK Singh committee (set up in 2016) recommended that the government should target a fiscal deficit of 3% of the GDP in the years up to March 31, 2020, cut it to 2.8% in 2020-21, and to 2.5% by 2023.

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