{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T07:29:06.458Z","data":{"id":"inc-ls-1991-002","text":"Cut non-plan government expenditure by 10%","quote":"our commitment to reduce non-plan expenditure by 10 per cent, which was stated in our Party's election manifesto","quoteIsExact":false,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":null,"sector":"economy","measurability":"measurable","importance":"major","deadline":"1996-05-16","deadlineType":"implied","status":"partial","rating":4,"ratingRule":"partial_25","provisional":false,"confidence":"low","reason":"The 1991-92 budget cut non-plan spending excluding interest by 4.9% against the 1990-91 revised estimates, and by about 15% against what would otherwise have been needed. The government called the pledge fulfilled using the second measure; on the plain measure it was about half the target.","evidence":[{"date":"1991-07-24","sourceType":"budget","publisher":"Ministry of Finance","title":"Budget Speech 1991-92 (Manmohan Singh)","url":"https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/bspeech/bs199192.pdf","quote":"The provision for non-plan expenditure, excluding interest payments, in the current year represents a reduction of 4.9 per cent compared with the provisions in the revised estimates for 1990-91, and a reduction of almost 15 per cent in relation to what we would have had to provide this year","stance":"supports"}],"tags":["fiscal","expenditure"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":null,"review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"inc-ls-1991","partyId":"inc","electionId":"ls-1991"}}