The second phase of the Budget session starts on March 9, and it is scheduled to go up to April 2, during which essential legislative and other business is expected to be addressed primarily.
Addressing a post-Budget seminar virtually also attended by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, PM Narendra Modi said his government has simplified processes, enhanced the ease of doing business, expanded technology-led governance, and strengthened institutions.
Publication of the Annual Economic Survey, a day before the Union Budget, is a much-awaited event.
Sitharaman also stated that the Centre is planning to set up mega textile parks and welcomed states to enter the industrial textiles sector.
The Union Budget 2026-2027 announced the setting up of a second National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS-2) in northern India.
Currently, the BJP has eight MPs from the state yet the finance minister did not even mention Telangana in her Budget speech.
The BSP chief says the budget is less of a hope for 'good days' to liberate the country's poor, unemployed, farmers, women, toilers, deprived and neglected Bahujans from their troubled lives, and more of benefiting a handful of rich and wealthy people.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Parliament to present the Union Budget for 2024-25.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived at the Ministry of Finance ahead of the Union Budget presentation on Tuesday.
The country is at a critical juncture ahead of today’s Union Budget, grappling with significant economic challenges.
