Union Budget
Budget 2021: Customary halwa ceremony to kickstart budget proceedings today
Sat, Jan 23, 2021
Budget 2021: The customary halwa ceremony, which marks the process of printing documents for the Union Budget, will be hosted by the Finance Ministry on Saturday ahead of the presentation of the Union Budget on February 1.
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Social Stock Exchange will help social enterprises & voluntary organisations to raise capital: Anurag Thakur
Tue, Jul 09, 2019
Union Budget 2019 provides the roadmap to be a 5-trillion-dollar economy and glimpse of how next 10-years is going to be, says Anurag Thakur, Minister of State (MoS) for Finance and Corporate Affairs, during an interview with Zee Business.
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Take a look at how Union Budget presented over the years in India
Fri, Jul 05, 2019
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman decided to go with ‘swadeshi bahi-khata’ on the day of Union Budget presentation. She kept budget documents in four fold red cloth instead of a briefcase that reminds of traditional ‘bahi-khata’ (ledger). Last time, Piyush Goyal presented the Union Budget and posed with the ‘briefcase’ in February 2019 due to illness of then FM Arun Jaitley. Former FM Arun Jaitley used a brown-colored briefcase for the budget day as well in his tenure (2014-2018). P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee also used the briefcase to keep the documents. Former FMs Yashwant Sinha, Manmohan Singh also followed the tradition. The tradition of posing with ‘briefcase’ before budget started by India’s first-ever Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947.
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