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    What has the central government been spending on?

    Almost half the central government’s expenditure has been on relatively inflexible items such as interest payments, defence, police and transfers to states, expenditure, leaving little available for development 

    Manas Chakravarty
    January 25, 2022 / 09:29 IST
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