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As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo pre­pares to de­liv­er his first na­tion­al bud­get to­mor­row, all eyes are on how the Gov­ern­ment plans to bal­ance the books amid ris­ing ex­pen­di­ture and a widen­ing fis­cal deficit.

With spend­ing grow­ing faster than in­come, Bourse, a lo­cal in­vest­ment com­pa­ny, warned that the Gov­ern­ment may have to bor­row again or restart as­set sales to fill the gap.