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The Rajya Sabha, connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025), cleared the archetypal batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants that authorises the Union Government to additionally walk ₹41,455 crore successful 2025-26. This includes implicit ₹18,000 crore towards fertilizer subsidy. The gross further expenditure successful the Supplementary Demands for Grants is ₹1.32 lakh crore, successful which ₹90,812.17 crore is savings by assorted Ministries and departments.
Apart from allocation to conscionable fertilizer subsidy, the Supplementary Demands for Grants besides has allocation of ₹9,500 crore to the Petroleum Ministry to compensate lipid selling companies for under-recoveries and ₹1,304 crore for further expenditure by the Department of Higher Education.
Replying to a little statement connected the matter, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said the expenses for fertilizers, and the usage of fertilizers, peculiarly of urea, has increased. There is nary shortage of fertilizers successful the country. He added that urea accumulation had besides accrued successful the country. “Every month, the accumulation of urea is being ramped up by astir 1 lakh tonne per month,” helium said.
Maintaining that the Union Government is focused connected fiscal consolidation, helium said that successful 2020-21, the fiscal shortage stood astatine 9.2%, portion successful 2025-26 fiscal, the people is conscionable 4.4%. He said allocations to the States person besides accrued during the Narendra Modi regime.
During the debate, the Opposition MPs alleged that the Centre had been reducing the allocations to the States and discriminating against Opposition-ruled States. G.C. Chandrashekhar of the Congress said determination was an other allocation of ₹ 1.32 lakh crore, but the Centre’s fashionable programmes could not beryllium implemented afloat by the States owed to non-release of funds.
Aam Aadmi Party subordinate Raghav Chadha demanded “Tokenisation Bill” to alteration fractionalised ownership of assets done integer tokens. “Asset tokenisation is 1 of the astir transformative technological fiscal innovations of the 21st century, and done it, existent property and infra projects, and commodities, among others, volition beryllium divided into tiny pieces of integer tokens. This tradeable token tin beryllium utilized by anyone for buying oregon selling and marque profits [out of it]... This means that these large assets volition not lone beryllium disposable for billionaires but for the communal antheral of the state who tin bargain large assets and sensation large returns,” helium said.
