Provision of affordable and accessible services like medical, education, nutrition, safe drinking water, housing etc. for economically deprived sections of the society cannot be ensured by the market forces and this has been authenticated by outbreak of The COVID- 19, once-in-a-century pandemic which has compelled the nations, globally to augment expenditure on these services and hence role of the state becomes imperative in this connection to ensure the availability of such services through expenditure under these heads. The importance of such services which are essential for promoting human well-being and ultimately economic development had been duly acknowledged by Indian Constitution. Using time series data of expenditure.