A new portal opens up Budget documents at three levels of government to the public

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-01

Summary:

"On February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the National Democratic Alliance government’s third full Budget. The broad allocations to various sectors made by the Centre will go on to impact the country’s citizens deeply, as will the Budgets of state and local governments that will follow in the coming months.

However, while most commentary focuses on the Union Budget, there is little public information or analysis available on state and municipal Budgets. For instance, how much did the Punjab government set aside for the health sector 10 years ago and how does it compare to now? Or, how did Budget allocations change after new states such as Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand were carved out? In the paucity of such data, these questions are difficult to answer and understand.

A new data initiative called Open Budgets India seeks to bridge this gap. The portal, launched in Delhi on January 27 by the non-profit research organisation Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, will for the first time make available documents pertaining to Union Budgets from 1996-’97 onwards, state budgets of 26 states and Delhi for the last couple of years, and 23 municipal corporations – all on one website. All this data will be in machine-readable formats such as Comma Separated Value files and Excel spreadsheets."

Link:

https://scroll.in/article/828107/a-new-portal-opens-up-budget-documents-at-three-levels-of-government-to-the-public

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Date tagged:

02/01/2017, 00:31

Date published:

01/31/2017, 19:31