New Delhi:
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman On Saturday, the eighth consecutive budget for FY 2025-26 will be presented in the Lok Sabha at 11 am. Nirmala Sitharaman reached the Finance Ministry at around 8.50 am. This time Sitharaman appeared in a cream colored saree. In fact, Nirmala Sitharaman is wearing this saree to pay tribute to the skills of Madhubani Kala and Padma Award winners Dulari Devi.
Let us tell you that Dulari Devi is the Padma Shri Award winner of 2021. When the Finance Minister went to Madhubani for credit outreach activity at Mithila Arts Institute, she met Dulari Devi and talked about Bihar Madhubani art. During this, Dulari Devi presented a sari to the Finance Minister and asked to wear it on the day of the budget.
Copy of budget submitted to President Draupadi Murmu
The Union Finance Minister got a photo session with the budget team and then reached Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet the President. Where he submitted a copy of the budget to President Draupadi Murmu. Nirmala Sitharaman will visit the Lok Sabha after handing over the copy of the budget to the President. Where there will be a cabinet meeting at 10:15 pm. Where the budget will be approved. After this, at 11 am, she will present the budget in the Lok Sabha.
Let us tell you that Sitharaman was made India’s first full -time women finance minister in the year 2019. This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formed the government for the second consecutive time at the Center. Since then Sitharaman has presented seven budgets.
The budget was finalized yesterday
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday finalized the full budget before the third term of the Narendra Modi government. During this, he also got a photo shoot done with his team. Nirmala Sitharaman had talked with the secretaries and senior officials involved in the budget construction process at his office in North Block in Delhi at his office in North Block.
Sitharaman’s name is the longest budget speech record
The first general budget of independent India was introduced by the country’s first Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947, former Prime Minister Morarji Desai, during the tenure of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and later Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, as Finance Minister as Finance 10. Has presented budgets. Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the budget on nine occasions. Pranab Mukherjee presented eight budgets during his tenure as Finance Minister. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the budget for five consecutive times between 1991 and 1995, when he was the Finance Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government.
The longest budget speech Sitharaman gave two hours 40 minutes on February 1, 2020. In the year 1977, Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel’s interim budget speech is the shortest speech ever, with only 800 words. The budget was traditionally presented at 5 pm on the last day of February. The time was changed in the year 1999 and the then Finance Minister Yashwant Singh presented the budget in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at 11 am. Since then the budget is presented at 11 am.
After this, the date of presenting the budget in 2017 was changed to February 1, so that the government could complete the process of parliamentary approval by the end of March.
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