Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Public expenditures play's an important role in setting the trends of development in a nation or state. The mode of spending and heads under which the expenditure has been incurred is necessary to be monitored time to time so as to determine whether the expenditure incurred was necessary or not and to further determine whether there is need of increasing the expenditure or not. The research work focus on determining the trends and pattern of public expenditure incurred on heads that are basic administrative functionalities that is being provided by the state government of Chhattisgarh. These functionalities were general education, public health and social security and welfare. The paper concludes that Chhattisgarh state is following the same trend as of other states and is negligent towards public health and fails to meet the 5% thumb rule of WHO. The expenditures are directed more towards general education and social security and welfare.