The Budget has pegged subsidies on food and fertilisers at ₹3.71 lakh crore for 2025-26. This is marginally higher by 0.70 per cent than the estimated outgo in the current fiscal year.
According to the Budget, over ₹2.03 lakh crore has been earmarked for food subsidy in the next fiscal. This is higher than the revised estimate of over ₹1.97 lakh crore. The food subsidy bill was ₹2.11 lakh crore in 2023-24.
Allocation for fertiliser subsidy is ₹1.67 lakh crore for 2025-26, lower than the revised estimate of ₹1.71 lakh crore for the ongoing financial year. The government had earmarked ₹1.88 lakh crore towards fertiliser subsidy in the previous year.
