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While the union government's total expenditure has risen by 7 percent in 2025, the allocation for the social sector has not grown proportionally.

Social welfare allocations in the India's budget have lagged behind promises for a decade. Here’s how Budget 2024 compares.

India’s budgeting process can be bolstered by linking financial allocations to programme outcomes. For this to work, we need strong impact evaluations and collaborative goal setting.

National Health Accounts (NHA), 2019–20, used outdated data on out-of-pocket expenditure to paint a rosy picture of healthcare in India. Will NHA, 2020–21, be any different?

The continually declining budget allocations for disability welfare reveal the need for improving the government's capacity to implement its schemes.

While the budget's emphasis on green growth is welcome, it continues to overlook many key areas such as renewable energy and air pollution.

Union Budget outlays dominate the public discourse while the issue of underutilised funds for centrally sponsored schemes goes unexamined.

Learn about the implications of Budget 2023 on trusts and other charities in India.

Budget 2023–24 introduces measures to align with the vision of NEP 2020, but the school education sector needs more to bridge the learning loss caused by the pandemic.

Social sector spending falls below 20 percent for the first time since 2009 while capital expenditure increases for the third consecutive year.