Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and his team of finance ministry officials, after giving the final touches to Union Budget 2018 at his office in North Block, New Delhi, on Wednesday. Photo: PTIWhen the finance minister Arun Jaitley presents the budget on 1 February, he will present three sets of numbers. The first is the budget estimates, which are projections for the coming year (FY2018-19). The tables below show how governments in the last 18 years fared on what they budgeted for and what they delivered in three key areas. Roughly, half the time governments miss key projections, at times by a long way, as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) did in its ­first term and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) did in its second term.

Source: Mint January 31, 2018 19:41 UTC