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Social spend needs Budget boost -Rukmini S

-The Hindu

Allocation has remained same since 2007.

Social sector spending has flatlined over the past few years, and massive spending expansions are required to keep Prime Minister Narendra Modi's key promises, Budget data show.

Social sector spending - expenditure on health, education, water supply, sanitation and housing among others - has doubled over the past 10 years as a proportion of the Union government's total expenditure. But the big expansion came between 2004 and 2007, and more or less flattened at around 12 per cent of the total expenditure since then, show data from the Economic Census for various years.

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