Did you know that the central government runs eight employment schemes through seven ministries? Or, there are already five types of digital India schemes run by five departments?
These and many more such examples would have been difficult to figure out through the dense clutter of numbers that Budgets produce. It has only now become possible to cut through the clutter, because of the massive expenditure budget rejig carried out this year. It has made the entire jungle of government expenditure visible to anyone. It also shows how departments have often duplicated each other’s work, leading to a sizeable
These and many more such examples would have been difficult to figure out through the dense clutter of numbers that Budgets produce. It has only now become possible to cut through the clutter, because of the massive expenditure budget rejig carried out this year. It has made the entire jungle of government expenditure visible to anyone. It also shows how departments have often duplicated each other’s work, leading to a sizeable

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