In order to improve quality of public expenditure, government may rationalise some of the plethora of socio-economic schemes that have outlived their utility and in this regard the finance ministry has asked all the ministry to prepare outcome budget statement linking outlays against each scheme with deliverables achieved and their impact on economy and citizens. The move, of outcome budgeting is part of the budget overhauling exercise which will make prudent use of amount spent.
Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa said that "outcome budgeting essentially means that the investments which are made in any particular scheme or project must have a well-defined outcome. We had requested the ministries and they have given us an outcome budget which has been finalised after consultation with Niti Aayog and that outcome is what will measure the impact of that scheme." He said that the important aspect is all schemes must have an outcome. It should be measured, it can be monitored.
Lavasa pointed to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s earlier statement that all schemes should have a sunset clause, and said that the intention of the government is that every ministry should be conscious that any scheme or project which is implemented will have a life. Further, Ashok Lavasa said that every ministry should be able to define what they want to achieve on completion of the scheme and if the ministry thinks that it is now complete, then scheme should be dropped and so government can move on to the next scheme, unless ministry have good reasons to say that these schemes need to continue. He said that the schemes are assessed based on their efficiency and in 2017-18 we dropped a number of schemes (central sector) which the ministries thought have outlived their utility.
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