Ministry of Labour and Employment

Ministry of Labour and Employment.

₹12,688 crore

spent in 2025–26, 0.26% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.

Every year on record

Ministry of Labour and Employment, by year
Year	Amount	Share of union spending	Basis
2025–26	₹12,688 crore	0.26%	Revised estimate
2024–25	₹11,408 crore	0.25%	Actuals
2023–24	₹11,386 crore	0.26%	Actuals
2022–23	₹14,795 crore	0.35%	Actuals
2021–22	₹24,034 crore	0.63%	Actuals
2020–21	₹12,920 crore	0.37%	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.

Ministry of Labour and Employment The employees' pension and state insurance schemes, the Shram Yogi Maandhan pension for informal workers, and mine safety. ₹13,000 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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