India Budget Review

Spending by ministry

Budget Estimates for 2026-27, with the change from 2025-26's revised figure. Ministry of Finance includes interest payments (₹14.04 lakh crore) and grants to states.

  1. Finance₹19.73 lakh crore36.9% of spending · +1.7% on 2025-26 RE
  2. Defence₹7.85 lakh crore14.7% of spending · +7.1% on 2025-26 RE
  3. Road Transport and Highways₹3.10 lakh crore5.8% of spending · +7.9% on 2025-26 RE
  4. Railways₹2.81 lakh crore5.3% of spending · +10.1% on 2025-26 RE
  5. Home Affairs₹2.55 lakh crore4.8% of spending · +5.7% on 2025-26 RE
  6. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution₹2.40 lakh crore4.5% of spending · +0.5% on 2025-26 RE
  7. Rural Development₹1.97 lakh crore3.7% of spending · +4.4% on 2025-26 RE
  8. Chemicals and Fertilizers₹1.77 lakh crore3.3% of spending · −7.4% on 2025-26 RE
  9. Agriculture and Farmers Welfare₹1.41 lakh crore2.6% of spending · +5.4% on 2025-26 RE
  10. Education₹1.39 lakh crore2.6% of spending · +14.2% on 2025-26 RE
  11. Health and Family Welfare₹1.07 lakh crore2.0% of spending · +10.0% on 2025-26 RE
  12. Communications₹1.02 lakh crore1.9% of spending · +28.2% on 2025-26 RE
  13. Jal Shakti₹94,808 crore1.8% of spending · +128.8% on 2025-26 RE
  14. Housing and Urban Affairs₹85,522 crore1.6% of spending · +49.5% on 2025-26 RE
  15. Science and Technology₹38,261 crore0.7% of spending · +80.6% on 2025-26 RE
  16. New and Renewable Energy₹32,915 crore0.6% of spending · +30.1% on 2025-26 RE
  17. Labour and Employment₹32,666 crore0.6% of spending · +157.5% on 2025-26 RE
  18. Petroleum and Natural Gas₹30,443 crore0.6% of spending · +2.2% on 2025-26 RE
  19. Power₹29,997 crore0.6% of spending · +39.0% on 2025-26 RE
  20. Women and Child Development₹28,183 crore0.5% of spending · +15.6% on 2025-26 RE
  21. Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises₹24,566 crore0.5% of spending · +103.1% on 2025-26 RE
  22. Department of Atomic Energy₹24,124 crore0.5% of spending · −1.2% on 2025-26 RE
  23. External Affairs₹22,119 crore0.4% of spending · +1.7% on 2025-26 RE
  24. Electronics and Information Technology₹21,633 crore0.4% of spending · +6.9% on 2025-26 RE
  25. Commerce and Industry₹17,844 crore0.3% of spending · +17.2% on 2025-26 RE
  26. Tribal Affairs₹15,422 crore0.3% of spending · +42.5% on 2025-26 RE
  27. Social Justice and Empowerment₹15,357 crore0.3% of spending · +21.0% on 2025-26 RE
  28. Department of Space₹13,706 crore0.3% of spending · +10.1% on 2025-26 RE
  29. Skill Development and Entrepreneurship₹9,886 crore0.2% of spending · +265.7% on 2025-26 RE
  30. Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying₹8,915 crore0.2% of spending · +26.7% on 2025-26 RE
  31. Heavy Industries₹7,940 crore0.1% of spending · +50.0% on 2025-26 RE
  32. Development of North Eastern Region₹6,812 crore0.1% of spending · +52.1% on 2025-26 RE
  33. Corporate Affairs₹5,562 crore0.1% of spending · −37.6% on 2025-26 RE
  34. Law and Justice₹5,513 crore0.1% of spending · −11.0% on 2025-26 RE
  35. Statistics and Programme Implementation₹5,503 crore0.1% of spending · −0.9% on 2025-26 RE
  36. Textiles₹5,279 crore0.1% of spending · −8.5% on 2025-26 RE
  37. Ports, Shipping and Waterways₹5,165 crore0.1% of spending · +78.2% on 2025-26 RE
  38. Information and Broadcasting₹4,552 crore0.1% of spending · −25.4% on 2025-26 RE
  39. Youth Affairs and Sports₹4,480 crore0.1% of spending · +33.9% on 2025-26 RE
  40. Ayush₹4,409 crore0.1% of spending · +20.1% on 2025-26 RE
  41. Food Processing Industries₹4,064 crore0.1% of spending · +13.8% on 2025-26 RE
  42. Mines₹3,806 crore0.1% of spending · +20.3% on 2025-26 RE
  43. Earth Sciences₹3,789 crore0.1% of spending · +12.1% on 2025-26 RE
  44. Environment, Forest and Climate Change₹3,759 crore0.1% of spending · +8.0% on 2025-26 RE
  45. Coal₹3,635 crore0.1% of spending · +640.5% on 2025-26 RE
  46. Culture₹3,417 crore0.1% of spending · −3.8% on 2025-26 RE
  47. Minority Affairs₹3,400 crore0.1% of spending · +57.4% on 2025-26 RE
  48. Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions₹2,662 crore0.0% of spending · +3.3% on 2025-26 RE
  49. Tourism₹2,438 crore0.0% of spending · +86.1% on 2025-26 RE
  50. Civil Aviation₹2,103 crore0.0% of spending · +2.3% on 2025-26 RE
  51. President, Parliament, UPSC and Vice-President₹2,084 crore0.0% of spending · +4.7% on 2025-26 RE
  52. Cooperation₹1,745 crore0.0% of spending · +77.8% on 2025-26 RE
  53. Planning₹1,232 crore0.0% of spending · +45.3% on 2025-26 RE
  54. Panchayati Raj₹1,190 crore0.0% of spending · +23.2% on 2025-26 RE
  55. Steel₹443 crore0.0% of spending · −86.5% on 2025-26 RE
  56. Parliamentary Affairs₹68.5 crore0.0% of spending · +3.2% on 2025-26 RE

Ministries are compared using their departments' lines in the Expenditure Budget. Before 2017-18 the budget was split into Plan and Non-plan and some departments were organised differently, so long-term comparisons for a single ministry can have breaks. Each ministry page notes them.