{"id":17449,"date":"2023-11-27T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17449"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:54:54","slug":"sg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sg\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Supplementary Grants\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Supplementary Demands for Grants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Article 115 of the Indian Constitution\u00a0provides for supplementary, additional, or excess grants.<\/li>\n<li>Supplementary grants: The President shall cause to be laid before both Houses of Parliament a demand\u00a0if the amount authorized\u00a0under Article 114 (Appropriation Bills)\u00a0is found to be insufficient for the purposes.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0additional grant\u00a0required\u00a0to meet the required expenditures of the government is called Supplementary Grants.<\/li>\n<li>They are presented to and\u00a0passed by the House before the end of the financial year.<\/li>\n<li>They are regulated by the\u00a0same procedure that is applicable in the case\u00a0of a regular budget.<\/li>\n<li>The demand for supplementary grants\u00a0may be token, technical, or substantive\/cash.\n<ul>\n<li>Token refers to\u00a0a symbolic amount (\u20b91 lakh or so) to be allocated\u00a0for any scheme.<\/li>\n<li>Technical\u00a0means savings of a Ministry\/ Department to be\u00a0used for a different purpose or for a scheme where more funds are required.<\/li>\n<li>Substantive\/ cash\u00a0implies fresh allocation beyond what is provided in the budget and is to be met\u00a0through fresh withdrawal from the\u00a0Consolidated Fund of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excess Grants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When\u00a0actual expenditure incurred exceeds the approved grants of the Parliament, the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Railways\u00a0present a Demand for Excess Grant.<\/li>\n<li>The Comptroller and Auditor General of India\u00a0(CAG) bring such excesses to the notice of the Parliament.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Public Accounts Committee examines these excesses and\u00a0gives recommendations to the Parliament.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Demand for Excess Grants is\u00a0made after the actual expenditure is incurred and is\u00a0presented to the Parliament\u00a0after the end of the financial year in which the expenses were made.<\/li>\n<li>Additional Grants: When a need has arisen\u00a0for additional expenditure upon some new service not contemplated in the Budget, the President shall cause to be laid before both Houses of Parliament such demand.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Consolidated Fund of India (CFI)?<\/h3>\n<p>Consolidated Fund of India includes revenue earned from direct taxes like income tax, corporate tax and indirect taxes such as GST, customs and excise duties. Dividends and profits from Public Sector Undertakings, disinvestment receipts, debt repayments and loan recoveries also go to the fund. All expenditure of the government is incurred from the Consolidated Fund, with the exception of a few transactions which are carried out through the Contingency Fund and the Public Account. No amount can be withdrawn from this Fund without authorisation from Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/supplementary-demands-for-grants-likely-to-provide-more-funds-for-three-fs-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme\/article67575944.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Supplementary grants may provide more funds for three \u2018Fs\u2019, rural job scheme<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The additional grant required to meet the required expenditures of the government is called Supplementary Grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}