[IndianAstronaut]

Indians spend several times more money on Bollywood and Cricket than the space programs. Space programs are not what needs to be targeted for budgets.

[josephmx]

I'm not sure you can compare cricket with government spending, unless the government massively donates to sport and movies?

[mindondrugs]

The Indian Goverment has a budget of Rs. 1541 Crores (£155,000,000~) for the Sports Department

http://www.hindustantimes.com/union-budget/sports-ministry-g...

And the space program has a budget of Rs. 7,927 crore (£799,871,700) according to wikipedia.

So to address your point, yeah India spends quite a bit on Sports, but no way near as much as their Space Program.

[iprateek]

And the Government would spend Rs 221,246 crore on roads and railways alone.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zdmiM68OZXnq2Kg5sMJESI/Budg...