The idea is to get the Budget passed by Parliament along with Appropriation Bill and the Finance Bill by the end of March as this would ens...

There could be increase in public expenditure if the fiscal situation shows improvement, sources said, adding there was no compression last...

The budget estimates indicate a revenue surplus of Rs 3,718.37 crore and a fiscal deficit of Rs 23,467.29 crore, which is 3.5 per cent of t...

In order to link expenditure to the outcome more efficiently, government is mulling doing away with the practice of classifying it as 'plan...

CAg says the Mission and the Ministry failed to purchase building for Chancery in Rome despite requisite permission by the Committee on Non...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has traveled extensively in his first year in office, logging more flying miles than his ministers.

Sangma said his government has affected cut in non-plan expenditure as initiatives to address revenue gap arising out of NGT ban on mining ...

The proposal to sell government lands in Hyderabad to generate revenue has been put on hold, since market conditions are not conducive.

"These austerity measures do not involve only a ban on first air travel, but subsidies will bear the main brunt of the cuts," party Politbu...

Issuing fresh directions to curtail expenditure, the Finance Ministry asked the government departments to cut some non-plan expenditure by ...

Finance minister P Chidambaram attributed this decline to additional tax revenues and savings on expenditure side.

The actual plan expenditure up to December 2011 of 2011-12 stood at Rs 2.77 lakh cr, as against the Budget Estimate of Rs 4.42 lakh cr, sai...

The government is looking to cut cost wherever possible with departments and ministries asked to reduce hosting foreign dignitaries or trav...

The government is reportedly preparing for a 10% cut in non-Plan expenditure. These kind of rituals will serve very little purpose.

The finance ministry announced 10% cut in non-plan expenditure in current fiscal as part of austerity measures aimed at containing its fisc...

While the finance ministry is pushing for inclusion of more than 10 non-plan schemes in the planned budget, the Planning Commission is resi...

The government’s non-Plan expenditure in April-December 2006-07 jumped 14.4% compared to the corresponding period in the previous fiscal.