India state fiscal health: Pension burden highest in Himachal Pradesh

The tracker is based on the Reserve Bank of India’s 2025 Handbook of Statistics on Indian States and compares states and Union Territories across eight fiscal indicators.

In the ranking, Delhi was followed by Haryana (80.4 per cent), Telangana (78.4 per cent), Karnataka (77.3 per cent) and Tamil Nadu (75.5 per cent). At the other end were Manipur (10.0 per cent), Nagaland (12.5 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (12.8 per cent), Tripura (16.6 per cent) and Mizoram (19.6 per cent).

Own revenue measures how much of a state's revenue receipts come from its own sources. It combines own tax revenue and own non-tax revenue.