Science in India's budget

Highlights from the Union Budget of India for 2012-13, indicating allocation to various science sectors:

India’s budget

Discouraging result

Budget allocations in billions of rupees.

	2011–12	2012–13	% increase
Atomic energy	67.24	76.51	13.8
Department of Health Research	7.70	9.08	17.9
Department of Science and Technology	26.06	28.73	10.3
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research	32.17	34.84	8.3
Department of Biotechnology	13.77	15.00	9.0
Department of Agricultural Research	50.08	53.92	7.7
Oceanographic research	6.99	7.13	1.8