India economy has already been eroded with lockdowns and huge expenses on vaccines being given out for free, and now you have to pay those who died too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778
India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.
The US has homeless problems too, but doesn't stop it from spending on the space program.
The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on.
India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways.
Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.