While the 2024-25 BE expenditure is 1.47% more than the ₹74,900 crore spent in 2023-24 as per R.E. numbers, it's a reduction if compared to 2023-24 B.E. numbers
The Delhi government presented its 2024-25 budget on March 4. Coming just before the general elections, the budget promises a spending of ₹76,000 crore, more than three-fourths of which will be financed by Delhi’s own tax revenues (OTR). This basic fact notwithstanding, here are four charts which put Delhi’s budget in context.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and finance minister Atishi address a joint press conference after the presentation of the Budget of the Delhi government at Vidhan Sabha on Monday. (ANI)
Number Theory: Understanding the Delhi budget — in three charts