What do priests’ wages, traveling and allocations price taxpayers? Budget 2025 claims …–

The Union Budget 2025-26 has actually alloted Rs 1,024.30 crore for expenditures sustained by the Council of Ministers, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s Office, and for friendliness and home entertainment of state visitors.

The alloted quantity is a little bit greater than the Rs 1,021.83 crore set aside in 2024-25.

In the Budget offered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha on Saturday, an overall of Rs 619.04 crore has actually been set aside for the expenditures of council of priests in the coming monetary. It was Rs 540.95 crore in 2024-25.

This allotment is for expense on wages, sumptuary and various other allocations and traveling by Cabinet priests, priests of state, and previous head of states.

It additionally consists of an arrangement for unique added session trip procedures for VVIPs.

The National Security Council Secretariat has actually been alloted Rs 182.75 crore, versus Rs 270.08 crore set aside in 2024-25.

The stipulation is for fulfilling the management expenditures and room program of the National Security Council Secretariat.

An overall of Rs 70.12 crore has actually been set aside to the workplace of the major clinical expert (Rs 65.72 crore in 2024-25) for fulfilling the management expenditures of the workplace and the National Research Foundation.

The Cabinet Secretariat has actually been alloted Rs 75.68 crore, versus Rs 73.98 crore in 2024-25, for fulfilling the management expenditures of those of the Cabinet Secretariat and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has actually been alloted Rs 70.91 crore (Rs 65.30 crore in 2024-25) for conference management expenditures.

The Budget additionally set aside Rs 4 crore for friendliness and home entertainment expenditures, the like that alloted in 2024-25.

This stipulation is for expense on federal government friendliness and home entertainment of international state visitors, main home entertainment set up at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in behalf of the vice-president and the head of state, function on nationwide days, and and events for discussion of qualifications, to name a few.

The Budget additionally alloted Rs 1.80 crore for expense on settlements of secretariat aid to previous guvs, the like that alloted in 2024-25.