Delhi Government presents Outcome Budget education health departments top performers

• Tuesday | 9th March, 2021

New Delhi March 8The Delhi Government's 'Outcome Budget' for 2020-21 was presented by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday showing education health PWD and environment departments as top performers. The Outcome Budget for 2020-21 covered 2113 indicators of 595 schemes of major government departments. The performance report of the Budget showed that 84 per cent of education indicators were 'on track' meaning over 75 per cent target had been achieved. Other top performing departments were health (80 per cent) environment (79 per cent) power (75 per cent) PWD (73 per cent) among others. The Outcome Budget was introduced in 2017-18 by the AAP government as a tool linking the Budget with outcomes to capture the progress of various schemes programmes and projects and final deliverables from the citizens' perspective.