Ministry of Culture
Ministry of Culture.
culture.gov.in the official site. It is recorded only because the page it serves names itself as this body; an absent link here means "not corroborated", never "has no website".
₹3,550 crore
spent in 2025–26, 0.07% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹3,550 crore | 0.07% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹3,245 crore | 0.07% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹3,385 crore | 0.08% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹3,275 crore | 0.08% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹2,544 crore | 0.07% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹2,135 crore | 0.06% | Actuals |
Its demands for grants
1 budget line sit under this ministry. The total above is their sum, because a group carries no figure of its own anywhere in this dataset.
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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