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Government’s expenditure increases 27% in Q1 FY18: Jaitley

09 Aug 2017 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has stated that the total expenditure of the government increased by 27 percent to over Rs 6.50 lakh crore in first quarter (April-June) of 2017-18, as a result of advancing the budget presentation by a month to February 1. He noted that the advancement of the Budget by a month was intended to utilise the full working season, including the Q1 FY18 to step up expenditure.

The minister highlighted that the government’s expenditure during the first quarter was Rs 6,50,731 crore, which is 30.3 percent of the amount budgeted for 2017-18 (Budget Estimate or BE) as against Rs 5,11,833 crore (25.9 percent of BE 2016-17) for the corresponding period of the previous year. Adding further, he said that previously when the budget got approved in mid-May, the spending would start only in the second quarter. He also said that this year, the Budget was presented on February 1 and Parliament approved it before the new financial year starts on April 1. He added that the government had brought forward the Budget presentation to provide allocation to the departments from the first day of the new financial year.

According to the data, in the April-June quarter in 2017, spending as a percentage of BE surged for 32 central ministries, including agriculture, defence, home, mines and Panchayati Raj, compared with the first three months of 2016. For the Ministry of Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation, it noted that the expenditure as a percentage of BE remained the same as previous fiscal. However, it also pointed out that for 23 ministries including textiles, power, shipping, environment and rural development, the expenditure as a percentage of BE has gone down compared with the last fiscal.

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