Non Plan Expenditure

Budget 2016: Kudos, Jaitley; FM sticks to roadmap, fiscal deficit at 3.5% for FY 2017

The fiscal deficit in current fiscal has been estimated at 3.9 per cent, which will be brought down to 3.5 per cent in next fiscal.

Finance ministry mulling abolishing plan, non-plan expenditure: Watal

Watal, who is also the expenditure secretary, said it was necessary for Centre and States to work in tandem for better public expenditure management and fiscal consolidation.

Budget 2015: FM may cut social spending allocation to give states more say in them

Finance Minister in Budget 2015 is expected to incorporate Finance Commission's recommendations and cut government allocation for social sector spending by 25-30 percent.