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States’ salary, pension bill up 2.5 times in 10 yrs
Hindustan Times Delhi
|September 22, 2025
The committed expenditure on salaries, pensions, and interest payments increased by 2.49 times to ₹15,63,649 crore in fiscal 2022-23 across all states from ₹6,26,849 crore in 2013-14, said a CAG report on state finances.
‘A large share of the revenue expenditure is either committed or tied up.
Salaries, pensions, and interest payments on public debt and liabilities are treated as ‘committed expenditure’.
During the 10-year period from 2013-14 to 2022-23, revenue expenditure by the states constituted 80-87% of the total expenditure and as percentage of combined GSDP, it was about 13-15%. In FY 2022-23, revenue expenditure was 84.73% of total expenditure and 13.85% of combined GSDP, said the publication on State Finances 2022-23, the first of its kind by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
This story is from the September 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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