Government spends nearly Rs 100 lakh crore on infra development, social sector schemes in 8 years
Citing an RBI report, sources said that the total developmental expenditure by the central government was a whopping Rs 90,89,233 crore (Rs 90.9 lakh crore) during 2014-15 to 2021-22.
The government has spent around Rs 100 lakh crore on infrastructure development and social sector programmes over the last eight years, government sources said.
Citing an RBI report, sources said that the total developmental expenditure by the central government was a whopping Rs 90,89,233 crore (Rs 90.9 lakh crore) during 2014-15 to 2021-22.
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Earlier this month, former finance minister P Chidambaram had pointed out that the government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi collected Rs 26.5 lakh crore from fuel tax collections between 2014-2021 but the total outgo on free food grain, cash allowances to women, PM-KISAN and other cash transfers is ?no more than Rs 2,25,000 crore ? which is less than the annual fuel taxes collected by the Centre alone.
The numbers posed by the former finance minister fall way short of the mark as development expenditure was nearly four times, government sources said.
Sharing details of expenditure, sources said, this included more than Rs 26 lakh crore in the form of capital expenditure to modernise infrastructure and create productive assets, Rs 25 lakh crore for food, fertilizer and fuel subsidies, and Rs 10 lakh crore on social services such as health, education, affordable housing, etc.
It is clear then, that the collections from the fuel tax have been put to good use as developmental expenditure, sources said, adding, it is unfortunate that a former Finance Minister would miss out these basic data points.
Taking to Twitter, Chidambaram had last week said that in the eight years of the Modi government, the central government collected Rs 26,51,919 crore as fuel taxes.
"There are approximately 26 crore families in India. That means from every family the central government has collected, on average, Rs 1,00,000 as fuel tax!" the former Union finance minister said.
"Ask yourself, what did an average family get in return for paying this huge amount as fuel tax?" Chidambaram said.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending upon the incidence of local taxation.
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