Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present budget today at 11 am

India is ready to unveil Budget "like never before" on Monday, February 1. The countrymen are awaiting the moment when Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will rise up in Parliament to present the ninth budget under the Modi government. In her first budget in 2019, Sitharaman had replaced the decades-old leather briefcase used for carrying budget documents with a traditional red cloth 'bahi-khata'. Economists and experts say that the budget will be the starting point for picking up the pieces after the economic destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.