When you don the hat of FM, your objective is to bolster the growth of the economy without increasing the fiscal deficit. You like to augment public spending on social goods without putting undue stress on the state exchequer.
With this objective in mind, you are entrusted with the task of allocating the limited economic resources of the government amongst different uses. The budgetary allocation on each head can be increased or decreased within 20% limit. We have used Budget Estimate 2024-25 as a reference point for getting the initial data. Besides allocating the resources, the user can also tinker with the values under different revenue heads within the +/- 20% limit.
The user can use the slider to change the allocations. You can do as much iterations as you wish but please bear in mind that the cardinal objective of budgetary exercise is to control the fiscal deficit. Recalibrating the income and expenditure while keeping fiscal deficit in check will help in delivering a prudent budget.
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