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Chapter-3Non-Tax Revenue and Non-Debt Capital ReceiptsNon-Tax Revenues (NTR) of the Government comprise receipts fromheterogeneous sources such as return on assets in the form of dividend andinterest; fees, fines and miscellaneous receipts collected in the exercise ofsovereign functions; regulatory charges and license fees and user charges forpublicly provided goods and services. For budgetary purposes, non-tax revenuereceipts of the Government are grouped into five broad categories, viz., (i)interest receipts, (ii) dividends and profit share, (iii) a large residual group of‘other non-tax revenue’ comprising fees, user charges, royalty, license fees, (iv)external grants and (v) non-tax revenues of union territories (withoutlegislature) etc. Though non-tax revenue (NTR) has shown some positiveoverall growth in each plan, relative to tax revenues, this has not been high andcompositionally a lot of fluctuations in individual receipts under this head areobserved (Table 3.1). The total non-tax receipts was `72,290 crore in 2002-03which increased to `83,205 crore in 2006-07 showing a growth of 15 per centduring the Tenth Plan period. In the Eleventh Plan, the total non-tax revenueincreased from `1,02,317 in 2007-08 to `1,25,435 crore in 2011-12 indicating22.59 per cent growth during the plan period.The overall non-tax revenue was projected to grow annually by 5.63 per centover the Five Year Plan period. The highest growth rate of 10 per cent wasassumed in Fiscal Services, Social Services, Other General Services andReceipts from UTs without legislature. Economic Services and Grants-in-Aidwere assumed to grow at about 8 per cent while Interest Receipts were assumedto decline by 1.59 per cent. However, the actual achievement of NTR exceededthe projection made for the Eleventh Five Year Plan. The overall trend growthof NTR achieved during the period is 13 per cent. Fiscal Services, SocialServices and Other General Services registered more than 20 per cent growthwhile Economic Services grew by 22.95 per cent.Working Group Report on Centre’s Financial ResourcesPage-21