RAS question
What was the revenue expenditure of Rajasthan in 2023-24?
Correct answer: (B) ₹2,42,231 crore.
Rajasthan's revenue expenditure in 2023-24 was ₹2,42,231 crore.
Explanation
Rajasthan's Economic Review 2024-25 places revenue expenditure under the State's fiscal position parameters and reports ₹2,42,231 crore for 2023-24. The same figure is repeated as total revenue expenditure in the sector-wise revenue expenditure table. This matters because the option set is year-sensitive: the figures rise across the table from ₹1,78,310 crore in 2020-21 to ₹2,09,790 crore in 2021-22, ₹2,26,479 crore in 2022-23 and ₹2,42,231 crore in 2023-24. Therefore, the 2023-24 value is not the earlier-year amount; it is the latest value in the provided 2019-20 to 2023-24 series.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) ₹1,78,310 crore is the revenue expenditure shown for 2020-21, not for 2023-24.
- (C) ₹2,09,790 crore is the revenue expenditure shown for 2021-22, so it does not match the asked year.
- (D) ₹2,26,479 crore is the revenue expenditure shown for 2022-23, one year before the asked 2023-24 figure.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan public finance, especially the fiscal position and expenditure heads reported in the Economic Review. Such year-wise budget figures recur in RAS because they check whether aspirants can read official fiscal tables precisely rather than rely on approximate trends.