Across India, food‑safety budgets are uneven. A recent analysis shows that Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu will spend far more than the rest of the country combined.
Together they are slated to allocate ₹1,130.6 crore for FY27. Madhya Pradesh alone will spend ₹786.7 crore, Tamil Nadu ₹201.6 crore, and Maharashtra ₹142.3 crore.
Madhya Pradesh’s planned outlay is almost four times that of Tamil Nadu and more than five times Maharashtra’s, highlighting a stark disparity.
The other 13 large states are expected to spend about ₹301.1 crore in total. Kerala will spend ₹55.9 crore, Gujarat ₹52.6 crore, Odisha ₹35.5 crore, Telangana ₹31.4 crore, and Karnataka ₹29.4 crore.
Spending is much lower in some of the country’s most populous states. Andhra Pradesh budgets ₹21.4 crore; Chhattisgarh ₹19 crore; Punjab ₹16.2 crore; West Bengal ₹14.2 crore; Haryana ₹11 crore; Rajasthan ₹6.9 crore; Uttar Pradesh ₹4.3 crore; and Jharkhand ₹3.3 crore.
The wide variation reflects the fact that states bear a major share of food‑safety enforcement under the Food Safety and Standards Act. The FSSAI evaluates states on human resources, institutional capacity, compliance, testing facilities, surveillance, training, and consumer empowerment.