Delhi budget obfuscates more than it reveals: Swaraj India

Picking holes in the Delhi government's annual budget, Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav today said the finance document obfuscates more than it reveals with selective presentation of favourable statistics and non-acknowledgment of limits and challenges.
Taking a jibe at Finance Minister Manish Sisodia, Yadav said the budget appears to have borrowed the language and practice of Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and his predecessor P Chidambaram.
"It has a yawning gap between what it promised during elections and its budgetary allocations, a big drop between its budgetary allocations and actual expenditure and a failure to translate expenditure into real outcomes," he said.

"This budget appears to be no different," remarked Yadav, whose party will contest the upcoming civic polls in Delhi.
Yadav, however, welcomed the government's move to adopt two key ideas from Union Budget of merging the 'Plan' and the 'Non-plan' funds to give a clear and comprehensive picture and announcement of an 'Outcome Budget'.