MeraTax.fyi2025–26 · budgeted vs revised

Announced in February. Quietly revised by December.

Every budget is a set of numbers the government publishes, and then a second set it publishes months later. The gap between them is rarely reported. This page is only that gap.

Scheme shortfall(1,31,114)src
Largest single scheme(50,000)src
Schemes compared12src
Spent above budget2,000src
The one to look at

Jal Jeevan Mission/National Rural Drinking Water Mission

Budgeted at 67,000 croresrc for 2025-26. Revised, in the same year, to 17,000 croresrc — a gap of 50,000 crore, or 74.6% of what was announced. For scale, the Union’s entire Health and Family Welfare allocation for 2026-27 is 1,06,530 croresrc.

Schemes

1.31 lakh crore announced and not spent

Scheme-wise, 2025-26 budget estimate vs revised estimate
ParticularsBudgetedRevisedGapChange
Jal Jeevan Mission/National Rural Drinking Water Mission67,00017,000(50,000)-74.6%
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Rural54,83232,500(22,332)-40.7%
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban25,7947,900(17,894)-69.4%
Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Scheme20,0003,000(17,000)-85%
Bharatnet22,0005,500(16,500)-75%
Samagra Shiksha41,25038,000(3,250)-7.9%
PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana20,00017,000(3,000)-15%
Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.021,96020,949(1,011)-4.6%
National Health Mission37,22737,100(127)-0.3%
PM-KISAN63,50063,50000%
Modified Interest Subvention Scheme22,60022,60000%
MGNREGS86,00088,0002,000+2.3%
Ministries

The same year, one level up

A separate cut of the same year. Do not add this to the table above — a scheme sits inside a ministry, so summing the two double-counts. Jal Jeevan Mission is most of the Jal Shakti gap, not a second one.

Ministry-wise, 2025-26 budget estimate vs revised estimate
ParticularsBudgetedRevisedGapChange
Jal Shakti99,50341,437(58,066)-58.4%
Housing and Urban Affairs96,77757,204(39,573)-40.9%
Communications1,08,10579,768(28,337)-26.2%
Education1,28,6501,21,949(6,701)-5.2%
Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare1,37,7571,33,370(4,387)-3.2%
Health and Family Welfare99,85996,854(3,005)-3%
Rural Development1,90,4061,88,753(1,653)-0.9%
Road Transport and Highways2,87,3332,87,142(191)-0.1%
Railways2,55,4452,55,466210%
Home Affairs2,33,2112,41,4858,274+3.5%
Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution2,15,7672,38,40922,642+10.5%
Chemicals and Fertilisers1,61,9651,91,18629,221+18%
Defence6,81,2107,32,51251,302+7.5%
Read this before drawing conclusions

A gap is not proof of a broken promise

A revised estimate below budget can mean several things: a scheme was restructured, approvals or land acquisition ran late, states did not draw their matching share, or money was re-phased into the following year. It can also mean the original number was never realistic. This page shows the gap and does not pick between those.

What it does establish is scale. 1.31 lakh crore across 12 schemes in a single year is not rounding, and this one scheme alone accounts for 38% of it. Several of these schemes were then re-budgeted at close to the original figure for 2026-27 — Jal Jeevan at 67,670 crore.