Budget 2016 Discipline

Modi looking to continually narrow the budget deficit, another way to identify priority areas would be to analyze which ministries have been able to implement existing allocations.

Urban poverty and skill development could see budgets cut for the year through March 2017 as they barely spent a third of allotted funds in April-December. Drinking water and sanitation and women and child development have exceeded Modi’s estimates, indicating where resources may be diverted