Former finance secy Garg pitches for large-scale expenditure reforms


PTI, Jan 25, 2020, 3:33 PM IST

New Delhi: Former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg on Friday said large-scale expenditure reforms are needed, to ensure that the taxes collected are spent productively.

Garg further said that “of the budgeted expenditure of Rs 27.86 trillion, a large part gets consumed in payment of interest and establishment expenditure.”

“Large-scale reforms are called for in the central expenditure programme. I hope to bring out an analysis of which central government expenditure programme should be scrapped or deeply restructured and streamlined in a separate piece,” Garg said in a blog post.

He also noted that as the productivity of government expenditure is generally lower than that of private expenditure, it makes sense if the government undertakes only those expenditures that deliver benefits commensurate with the benefits forgone on the resources raised from the private sector.

In 2019-20, the government spent Rs 5.46 trillion as establishment expenditure and Rs 6.60 trillion as interest payments.

The establishment expenditure is to take care of salaries, dearness and other allowances, pensions and other establishment-related expenditures such as travel allowances.

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