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The RBI's tables restate a year as it moves from one stage to the next; each stage is kept as its own series.", "frequency": "annual", "unit": "inr_crore", "stages": { "accountsTo": "2024-25", "revisedEstimate": "2025-26", "budgetEstimate": "2026-27" }, "scope": "centre", "table": { "report": "353", "handbook": 75, "title": "Major heads of expenditure of the Central Government" }, "latestPeriod": "2026-27 (financial year)", "coverage": "Where the Centre's money goes: interest, defence, subsidies, capital spending, ₹ crore, 1970-71 on", "note": "RBI, Major heads of expenditure of the Central Government (DBIE report 353; Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy). Amounts in ₹ crore (DBIE serves rupees). Defence excludes defence pensions and civil spending (Handbook note 4). 2007-08 includes ₹35,531 crore for the transfer of the RBI's stake in SBI to the government (note 3). Stages, from the printed table's own note: accounts to 2024-25, the revised estimate for 2025-26 and the budget estimate for 2026-27, each in its own series (suffix __re and __be), never one line. 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