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LS clears ₹41,455 crore for additional spending
The New Indian Express Shivamogga
|December 16, 2025
THE Lok Sabha on Monday cleared the first tranche of Supplementary Demands for Grants, seeking an allocation of ₹41,455 crore of additional spending by the Centre in the current financial year, including expenditure of over ₹18,000 crore for fertilizer subsidy.
As per the Supplementary Demands, parliamentary approval was sought for ₹18,525 crore towards fertilizer and allied subsidies, and nearly ₹9,500 crore for the petroleum ministry to compensate oil marketing companies for under-recoveries. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centre had created a "bumper buffer" of urea to cater to higher demand following a good monsoon and increased fertilizer usage by farmers. She argued that there is a rise in fertilizer
This story is from the December 16, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Shivamogga.
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