Parliament clears ₹51,463 cr extra spending for FY25, Manipur Budget for FY26
The Hindu
Parliament approves ₹51,463 crore additional spending, Manipur Budget for 2025-26, and returns four bills to Lok Sabha.
Parliament on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) approved the supplementary demands for grants, which entails ₹51,463 crore additional spending in the current fiscal and the Manipur Budget for 2025-26 with the Rajya Sabha returning four bills to the Lok Sabha.
Parliament also approved the ₹1,291 crore demands for excess grants for 2021-22 fiscal and the ₹1,861 crore supplementary demands for grants for Manipur in 2024-25.
The Lok Sabha had passed the supplementary demands for grants and the Manipur Budget for 2025-26 on March 11.
The Rajya Sabha returned The Appropriation Bill, 2025; The Appropriation (No. 2) Bill, 2025; The Manipur Appropriation (Vote on Account) Bill, 2025; and The Manipur Appropriation Bill, 2025, after the reply by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to a discussion on the four bills.
The second batch of supplementary demands for grants entails a gross additional spending sought by the government was over ₹6.78 lakh crore, of which ₹6.27 lakh crore would be matched by savings and receipts.
The net additional spending by the government would be ₹51,462.86 crore in the current fiscal, as per the second batch of supplementary demands for grants.
The demands for grants include a technical supplementary of ₹5.54 lakh crore, which goes towards repayment of debt.
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