Source: the economic times
The government's estimated increase in spending for 2020-21 may be only 17.3% and not 28.4% as projected by the government and will not stimulate demand. This increase is significantly because the government has made a provision of food subsidies in 2020-21 for discontinuation of National Small Savings Fund (NSSF) loans to the Food Corporation of India.
The government had estimated the budget of an expenditure of Rs 30.4 lakh crore in 2020-21 which was raised to Rs 34.5 lakh crore in the revised estimates while the expenditure in 2019-20 was placed at Rs 26.9 lakh crore.