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UP Passes Rs 59,019 Crore Budget as CAG Flags Financial Lapses
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly passed a Rs 59,019.54-crore supplementary budget for 2026-27, with Rs 45,568.63 crore allocated to economic services such as infrastructure, industry, energy and agriculture. The bill cleared the House…
The Story in Brief
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly passed a Rs 59,019.54-crore supplementary budget for 2026-27, with Rs 45,568.63 crore allocated to economic services such as infrastructure, industry, energy and agriculture. The bill cleared the House during protests by Samajwadi Party and Congress members, who sought a discussion on alleged theft of Ram temple donations in Ayodhya. The House was adjourned three times and ended its Monsoon Session a day early.
Separately, a CAG report tabled in the Assembly flagged weaknesses in budget preparation and reappropriation. It recorded Rs 219.57 crore spent without sanction, 151 irregular reappropriations worth Rs 10,186.62 crore and 1,885 cases of spending above allotments totalling Rs 13,938.27 crore. The report linked delays partly to limits in the financial management system.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy reading is that a large infrastructure budget proves progress, while the opposite claim treats every audit lapse as proof of corruption. Neither follows from these records. The CAG has identified control and accounting failures, not individual wrongdoing, and the temple donation allegation remains unverified. The useful test is whether the government publishes regularisation records and shows fewer excess-spending cases in the next audit.
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