Article 282

Part XII — Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits · Constitution of India

Article 282

Expenditure defrayable by the Union or a State out of its revenues. The Union or a State may make any grants for any public purpose, notwithstanding that the purpose is not one with respect to which Parliament or the Legislature of the State, as the case may be, may make laws.

In plain wordsThe Union or a state can spend money on any public purpose, even on a subject it normally cannot make laws about. Many central schemes running in states, like scholarships and health programs, rest on this spending power.

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