	india  deficit falls india s  deficit is provisionally estimated at billion rupees in the first months of fiscal ending march compared with billion in the year ago period the commerce ministry said exports rose in the latest period to billion rupees from the a year earlier billion and imports to billion from billion in the period the figures show the  deficit for all of is provisionally estimated at around billion rupees from an estimated record billion in and actual billion in commerce minister p shiv shanker told reporters last month reuter 
