Honorable Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday i.e. 14th September gave the Parliament green signal for additional spending of ₹2,35,852.87 crore, including ₹40,000 crore towards enhanced expenditure under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program.
The first batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2020-21 said, “Of this, the proposals involving net cash outgo aggregate to ₹1,66,983.91 crore and gross additional expenditure, matched by savings of the Ministries/Departments or by enhanced receipts/recoveries aggregates to ₹68,868.33 crore.”
The government has also sought ₹46,602.43 crore towards providing additional allocation under Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant to the states as per recommendations for Fifteenth Finance Commission.
54 Grants and 1 Appropriations are included in the first batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2020-21.