Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Department of Consumer Affairs; Department of Food and Public Distribution.
₹2,38,409 crore
spent in 2025–26, 4.80% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹2,38,409 crore | 4.80% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹2,15,009 crore | 4.62% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹2,32,496 crore | 5.23% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹2,83,954 crore | 6.77% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹3,06,571 crore | 8.08% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹5,66,797 crore | 16.15% | 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 Food and Public Distribution Free foodgrain under PMGKAY, and the Food Corporation of India that buys, stores and moves the grain. ₹2.35 lakh cr
- Department of Consumer Affairs The Price Stabilisation Fund that buys and releases onions and pulses, consumer courts, and weights and measures. ₹3,000 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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