Ministry of Home Affairs
Ministry of Home Affairs; Cabinet; Police; Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Chandigarh; Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; Ladakh; Lakshadweep; Transfers to Delhi; Transfers to Jammu and Kashmir; Transfers to Puducherry.
www.mha.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".
₹2,41,485 crore
spent in 2025–26, 4.86% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹2,41,485 crore | 4.86% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹2,24,585 crore | 4.83% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹1,96,872 crore | 4.43% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹1,86,839 crore | 4.46% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹1,68,791 crore | 4.45% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹1,44,258 crore | 4.11% | Actuals |
Its demands for grants
11 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.
- Police CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP, Assam Rifles, the Intelligence Bureau, and Delhi and J&K police — not the state police forces. ₹1.62 lakh cr
- Transfers to Jammu and Kashmir Central assistance to Jammu and Kashmir, which has its own legislature but is funded as a union territory. ₹41,000 cr
- Ministry of Home Affairs Disaster relief and the NDRF, freedom fighters' pensions, the census, and migrant rehabilitation — the security forces are separate lines. ₹7,000 cr
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands Running the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory with no legislature of its own. ₹7,000 cr
- Ladakh Running Ladakh, a union territory with no legislature of its own, including its tribal area programmes. ₹7,000 cr
- Chandigarh Running Chandigarh, a union territory with no legislature of its own. ₹6,000 cr
- Transfers to Puducherry Central assistance to Puducherry, which has its own legislature but is funded as a union territory. ₹4,000 cr
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Running Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, a union territory with no legislature of its own. ₹3,000 cr
- Lakshadweep Running Lakshadweep, a union territory with no legislature of its own. ₹2,000 cr
- Transfers to Delhi Central assistance to Delhi, which has an elected government but not a state's taxing powers. ₹1,000 cr
- Cabinet The Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet Secretariat, the Council of Ministers and the National Security Council. ₹978 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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