Series
Food subsidy (free grain)
Value in 2024-25
₹2.00 lakh crore
0.63% of GDP
Gross flows can exceed GDP. GDP counts only final output once; the map also shows the inputs firms buy from each other and the money that passes through financial markets.
What it is
The food subsidy. In the national accounts, free food grain is counted as government consumption.
Trend
SAM 2023-24: 0.56% of GDP
Checked against the 2023-24 SAM: the series differs, and the difference is explained. The SAM books GFCE on free grain (C2a food_subsidy on the grain rows), not the cash subsidy: the Statement 7 subsidy also pays FCI costs outside grain GFCE (plan C6). The cell C_CROP <- G_CEN C2a food_subsidy is the SUT's GFCE on the grain row, 1,63,971.75, fixed (government-21), so balancing does not move it; the whole residual is this concept difference (cross-checks in government-21 / TAX-11: FA 2408.01.102 1,84,468.93, FC16 Union food 2,30,755.71).
Sources
- Union Budget 2026-27 document set (Budget at a Glance, Receipt Budget, Expenditure Budget/Profile, AFS, FRBM statements)Ministry of Finance (Budget Division, DEA). Table Expenditure Profile, Statement 7. Retrieved 2026-09-29.