Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Department of Social Justice and Empowerment; Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
socialjustice.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".
₹12,694 crore
spent in 2025–26, 0.26% of all union government spending. Revised estimate, not yet final.
Every year on record
| Year | Amount | Share of union spending | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | ₹12,694 crore | 0.26% | Revised estimate |
| 2024–25 | ₹10,115 crore | 0.22% | Actuals |
| 2023–24 | ₹9,704 crore | 0.22% | Actuals |
| 2022–23 | ₹8,399 crore | 0.20% | Actuals |
| 2021–22 | ₹8,442 crore | 0.22% | Actuals |
| 2020–21 | ₹8,918 crore | 0.25% | 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 Social Justice and Empowerment Post-matric scholarships for scheduled caste students, backward class welfare, and schemes for the elderly and drug-dependent. ₹11,000 cr
- Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Assistive devices for people with disabilities, the national disability institutes, and rehabilitation grants. ₹1,000 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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