Expenditure Cut

Union minister Jitendra Singh lauds DoPT for reducing wasteful expenditure

Union minister Jitendra Singh Friday lauded the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for reducing wasteful expenditure.

FinMin asks ministries to limit spending as per revised targets amid Covid

The Budget meetings for fixing Revised Estimates for 2020-21 and Budget Estimates (BE) for 2021-22 were held between October 16 and November 12

Withdraw circular 'banning' creation of new posts: Congress to govt

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi earlier hit out at the Centre over the issue, alleging that the Modi dispensation''s thinking is "minimum government, maximum privatisation"

Odisha govt bars foreign tours by its employees, new cars to save costs

No new schemes or projects will be taken up by most government departments as austerity measure for coronavirus-hit economy.

Centre not cutting flagship schemes but won't take over states' burden

Official says some savings are expected as the Centre will make cuts wherever there is low-priority expenditure

All govt departments told to cut expenses by 60% amid coronavirus outbreak

Each department has to make the "savage cuts" by redoing the Budget maths.

Recovery in economic growth may be marred by drastic expenditure cuts

The economy is required to grow by 5.2 per cent in the second half compared to 4.8 per cent in the first half to enable it to clock five per cent in the entire FY20

Govt won't go for expenditure cut in FY'18 to meet fiscal deficit target

Expenditure Secretary Ajay Narayan Jha said indirect tax collections have already been factored into the revised target