Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government will launch three employment-linked schemes. These schemes will be based on enrolment in Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO).
Sitharaman also holds the record for the longest budget speech in India's history, when she spoke for 2 hours and 42 minutes in 2020.
Budget 2024 Live Streaming: The budget to be presented will be a vote-on-account, with a full-fledged budget slated for post-Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Sitharaman spoke for two hours and 17 minutes in her first budget speech for the year 2019-2020.
Union Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to announce her sixth budget on February 1, which will be an interim budget or a vote-on-account.
The event is a significant step in finalising the extensive budget-making process that spans several months.
Union Budget 2023: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman calls the budget a futuristic document that will pave India to become a USD 5 trillion economy soon.
In his Budget speech, Gehlot said works related to Navnera-Galwa-Bisalpur-Isarda link, Mahalpur barrage and Ramgarh barrage with a cost of Rs 9,600 crore are proposed to be taken up under ERCP next year.
Sitharaman, who also made the second paperless budget presentation as she read the speech from a tab, also quoted a verse from Mahabharat's Shanti Parva.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for 2021-22 in Parliament. This year's Budget is unique as finance minister used a Made in India tablet to deliver a paperless Budget address, instead of a bahi khata, that she used last year.
Amid concerns that lower funds had been earmarked for the PM-Kisan scheme, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar hailed the Budget 2020 saying adequate fund to the tune of Rs 1.60 lakh crore has been allocated for agriculture and its allied sector
Union Budget 2020 is being billed as one of the toughest in decades for a finance minister. Nirmala Sitharaman has a mountain to climb with different wheels of economy signalling stress. Common man is looking forward to the budget speech with hopes like more job creation, adjustments in personal income tax slabs and bringing the different sectors back on growth path.
Union Budget 2019-20: Individuals with gross income up to 6.5 lakh rupees will not need to pay any tax if they make investments in provident funds and prescribed equities: FM
The Delhi Govt was given Rs 449.99 crore as central assistance in the Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Lok Sabha.
The government has hiked customs duty on numerous consumer goods.
Here is the full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget speech in Parliament, part 2:
Here is the full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget speech in Parliament, part 1:
56 unserved airports and 31 unserved helipads will be connected under UDAN scheme, Jaitley said.
Here is the full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget speech in Parliament:
In his Budget speech, Jaitley said this year, the focus is on strengthening agriculture sector and besides 'ease of doing business', the government is also focusing on 'ease of living' now.
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