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What is Budget at a Glance
Budget at a Glance explains all the data related to the Union Budget in a reader-friendly manner. It’s a document that explains the gist of all broad aggregates and estimates in a form easier for readers to comprehend. It shows all receipts, expenditures, Fiscal Deficit, Revenue Deficit, Primary Deficit of the Government of India.
The Budget is a list of expenditures and receipts of the government, and lays out the ways and means in which the government will be allocating its resources. It is presented as the Finance Bill, Appropriation Bill under Article 112 of the Constitution and has to be passed by the Lok Sabha before April 1 for its implementation in the current financial year.
Budget at a Glance presents a pictorial account of sources of receipts, their applications, details of debts, and deficit indicators, composition of important budgetary variables through charts and graphs.