Interactive | Budget 2022: A look at government's expenditure in last 7 years

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.

With pandemic-hit sectors awaiting allocations in the upcoming Budget, here's a look at the government's expenditure over the last seven years: