Rural development and agriculture ministries have stood apart from the rest with huge annual increases of 75% and 30%, respectively, in their budgetary expenditures in the first half of the current financial year, even as the Centre’s overall Budget spending during the period remained flat on year and its capex declined by 12%. The rural employment guarantee scheme and PM-Kisan, income transfer scheme for farmers, have respectively been the principal drivers of spending by the two ministries.
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