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How India’s public money moves

Union 2026–27 · States 2025–26 · Budget estimates and modelled allocations

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Sources & methodology

Every figure on this chart is drawn from a public source — mostly the Union Budget 2026-27, RBI's state finance reports, PRS Legislative Research and CAG reports. Where a figure had to be modelled or estimated rather than read directly off a published table, that's noted below and shown as a dashed ribbon on the chart. Grouped by stage, in the same left-to-right order as the chart itself.

The guided story normalises Centre and state taxes to ₹100 throughout. Local bodies’ own income is shown separately in the full map. Values are rounded; allocation estimates and source vintages are documented below.