Interactive | Budget 2022: A look at government's expenditure in FY22

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament on February 1.

As the nation is set to witness polls to five states later this year, the Union Budget is likely to be a people-pleaser with infrastructure and developmental announcements focused on poll-bound states apart from a spending push.

In the previous Union Budget, the government proposed to spend Rs 34,83,236 crore in 2021-22. As per the revised estimates, the government spent Rs 34,50,305 crore in 2020-21, 13 per cent higher than the budget estimate.

Here is the government's FY22 spending in a nutshell:

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