Public Finances of Internal Security in India

Abstract

This paper provides an overview and analysis of India’s public spending on internal security, especially in the category of police services. It describes and evaluates the central government’s spending on internal security, its levels, patterns and, where possible, its outcomes. It then performs a similar analysis for the states, focusing especially on variation across the states, and trying to understand possible sources of inter-state differences in spending on internal security. It goes on to offer some broader discussion and analysis of the public finances of internal security in India, also relating it to spending on external security and to private sector provision of internal security.