{"id":31379,"date":"2025-03-22T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T04:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31379"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:59:47","slug":"demands-for-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/demands-for-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Demands For Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Demands For Grants Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Lok Sabha Approves \u20b950 Lakh Crore in Demands for Grants for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<h2>What are Demands for Grants?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Definition<\/strong>: Demands for Grants refer to <strong>expenditure estimates<\/strong> that require <strong>Lok Sabha approval<\/strong> under <strong>Article 113<\/strong> of the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scope<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Covers <strong>revenue &amp; capital expenditure<\/strong>, <strong>grants to states\/UTs<\/strong>, and <strong>loans &amp; advances<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Each <strong>ministry\/department<\/strong> presents its own Demand; <strong>large ministries<\/strong> may have <strong>multiple Demands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Types of Expenditures<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Voted expenditure<\/strong>: Requires approval from the <strong>Lok Sabha<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charged expenditure<\/strong>: Includes <strong>President\u2019s salary, judges&#8217; salaries, debt servicing<\/strong>, and does not require voting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Constitutional Provisions on Demands for Grants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 113: <\/strong>No demand for a grant can be made <strong>without the President\u2019s recommendation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 114: <\/strong>Money cannot be withdrawn from the <strong>Consolidated Fund of India<\/strong> without <strong>Parliamentary approval<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 115: <\/strong>Allows for <strong>supplementary, additional, or excess grants<\/strong> when the original budget allocation is insufficient.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Article 116: <\/strong>Provides for <strong>Vote on Account, Vote of Credit, and Exceptional Grants<\/strong> if the budget is <strong>not passed before the financial year begins<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Voting on Demands for Grants<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Exclusive power of Lok Sabha<\/strong> (Rajya Sabha <strong>cannot<\/strong> vote).<\/li>\n<li>Voting applies only to the <strong>votable<\/strong> part of the budget.<\/li>\n<li>Each Demand is <strong>voted on separately<\/strong>, allowing for discussion.<\/li>\n<li>If all demands are not discussed within the allocated time, the <strong>Speaker applies the Guillotine<\/strong>, approving all remaining Demands without discussion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Demands for Grants FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What are the Demands for Grants?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Demands for Grants are requests for funds presented by various ministries and departments in the Union Budget to meet their expenditure needs for the financial year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>Who presents the Demands for Grants?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The finance minister presents the Demands for Grants on behalf of the Union Government, detailing the expenditure for various ministries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3. <\/strong>Under which article are Demands for Grants presented?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Article 113 of the Indian Constitution mandates that all government expenditure requires parliamentary approval through Demands for Grants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4. <\/strong>How many Demands for Grants are presented in the Union Budget?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The number varies yearly, but there are usually around 100 Demands for Grants, each corresponding to a specific ministry or department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/lok-sabha-approves-demand-for-grants-for-various-ministries\/article69359073.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demands for Grants are requests for funds presented by various ministries and departments in the Union Budget to meet their expenditure needs for the financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31379","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\/31379","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=31379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}