QUESTION 12
GS3
15 marks
The public expenditure management is a challenge to the Government of India in the context of budget making during the post-liberalization period. Clarify it.
WRITE IN
11 min
250 words
What the examiner wants
Clarify why managing public spending has been difficult in budget making since 1991.
ClarifyAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Pressures: committed expenditure (interest, salaries, pensions, subsidies), fiscal deficit limits (FRBM), low tax-GDP, populism≈50 words
- 2Issues: poor quality of spending, unspent funds, off-budget borrowing, centrally sponsored schemes overload≈50 words
- 3Reforms: outcome budgets, PFMS, expenditure management commission (2014), zero-based budgeting, rationalisation of schemes≈50 words
- 4Conclusion≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
ContextChallengesReformsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Only defining PEM
- No reform
Draw this
- Pie of committed expenditure
Value addition
- DataInterest payments take about a quarter of the Centre's revenue receipts.Union Budget documents
- LawFRBM Act, 2003 (amended 2018) targets central debt at 40% of GDP.FRBM Act
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 3 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Abhishek Singh · Page 23 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 5 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
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