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CAG flags gaps in gender budget, SC/ST sub-plans
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
|October 18, 2025
THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, submitted in the Assembly on Friday, has stated that the Gender Budget Statement (GBS), Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP), and Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) for 2023-24 were not prepared in the format prescribed by the centre.
The report noted that all three documents lacked actual figures for 2021-22, and the budget estimate and revised estimate for 2022-23 were not shown.
Consequently, the probable outlay and actual expenditure on women-oriented schemes could not be analysed. The CAG noted this issue had been raised in an earlier report. While the state adopted the prescribed format for the GBS for 2024-25, it did not indicate whether similar changes were made for the SCSP and TSP.
Activists said disclosing actual expenditure is essential to assess government performance.
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Nagapattinam.
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