Plan – Non Plan Classification To Be Done Away from Fiscal 2017-18

The Plan and Non-Plan classification will be done away with from fiscal 2017-18. This was stated by the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley while presenting the General Budget 2016-17 in Lok Sabha today.Shri Jaitley said that successive committees have questioned the merit in having Plan and Non-Plan classification of Government expenditure. A broad understanding over the years has been that Plan expenditures are good and Non-Plan expenditures are bad resulting in skewed allocations in the Budget. This needs to be corrected to give greater focus to Revenue and Capital classification of Government expenditure. Mr. Jaitley said that the Finance Ministry will closely work with the State Finance Departments to align Central and State Budgets in this matter.