Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts; Department of Telecommunications.
₹79,768 crore
spent in 2025–26, 1.61% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹79,768 crore | 1.61% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹1,47,832 crore | 3.18% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹1,11,339 crore | 2.51% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹1,40,976 crore | 3.36% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹51,545 crore | 1.36% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹60,903 crore | 1.74% | Actuals |
Its demands for grants
2 budget lines sit under this ministry. The total above is their sum, because a group carries no figure of its own anywhere in this dataset.
- Department of Telecommunications Capital for BSNL and MTNL, telecom pensions, C-DOT research, and rural connectivity through the USO Fund. ₹53,000 cr
- Department of Posts India Post — the post office network, its staff and pensions, IT modernisation, and India Post Payments Bank. ₹26,000 cr
The ministry structure here is the one the 2026-27 Budget publishes, applied to every year so a demand keeps one place across time. A machinery-of-government change that moved a demand between ministries in an earlier year is therefore not reflected.
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