India, March 26 -- The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Delhi presented a budget with a total outlay of Rs.1 lakh crore for 2025-26 on March 25. This implies a growth of nearly 44% in spending compared to the revised estimate of Rs.69,500 crore in 2024-25.
The growth in spending in 2025-26 will be the highest for full budgets of the Delhi government, which have been presented since 1994-95.
The only other year when the growth in Delhi's spending was almost as high as 2025-26 was in 2007-08, when spending increased by 40%.
To be sure, 2007-08 was a year of high growth for India, (growth can help government spending by increasing tax receipts). Moreover, the Delhi government was also preparing for the 2010 Commonwea...