Outcome Budgeting in India:

The Outcome Budget was first introduced in India in 2005-06, with an understanding that “the people of the country are concerned with outcomes, not outlays”. However, limited progress has been made in this front, primarily due to three key reasons:

♤ Much of the development interventions are routed through the state governments. Only a few states have adopted planning outcome budgeting.

♤ Limited understanding exists on the linkage between specific Government interventions and their outcomes. Ministries face difficulties in spelling out the outcomes on ex-ante basis.

♤ The principles and intent of outcome budgeting are often overlooked. There is lack of programme formulation, programme implementation and programme monitoring capabilities in the ministries.