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Defense does not come under development.

Why not grand to state?

According to me, any expenditure can't be a grant to any government, however, defence expenditure can be development expenditure for their respective department. It will be inappropriate to say for this perticular que that this is not defance expenditure. Answer should be IV.

The development expenditures if central government not includes, the expenses made on defence because of there is not returns and those expenditures are burden to any government and India com3s under top 10 countries which spend more on defence.

India spent a lot of percentage of GDP on defense expense, however simply this reason can not change its characteristics to development exp. Defense expenditure is for sure incurred for safety and security of state and its people, so it should not included in development category.

Defence doesn't come in development expenditure. But what about grants to states?

Anyone tell me.

India's GDP grows at 8.5% in FY-2011, Q4 growth at 7.8%, Confirming fears of a slowdown, India's economy grew by just 7.8 per cent in the fourth quarter ending March this year, mainly due to poor performance of the manufacturing sector, as against 9.4 per cent in the same three-month period of the previous fiscal.

However, economic growth, as measured by the Gross Domestic Product, improved to 8.5 per cent in 2010-11 from 8 per cent in 2009-10 due to better farm output and construction activities and financial services performance.
So, Please refer Mr. Assif

Of course it is.

But grant to states may not be considered as development expenditure as the central govt. has the obiligation to give grants to the state govt.s as some part of the tax revenue is being collected by the cent govt.

I am agreed with the point of chaitanya.

Defence is not development as it is protection from others.
Development means to transform the initial condition/status.
But there is no transformation,it is just protective nature.