Budget 2025: Budget Documents Reached Parliament Ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget Presentation at 11 am today.
Sitharaman will present her eighth cultural Budget, which she will deliver from a digital tablet enclosed in a traditional ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch.
Sitharaman, India’s first full-time women finance minister, broke away from the colonial tradition of carrying a budget briefcase in July 2019, Opting for a traded for a traded ET Papers.
She continued this custom the following year, and in the Pandemic-Abfected 2021, She replaced the traditional papers with a digital tablet to carry her speech and other budget documents.
This tradition continues on saturday.
Draped in an off-white Handloom Silk Saree with Fish-Themed Embroidery and Golden Border, Sitharaman Posed for the Traditional ‘Briefcase’ Photo Outside Her North Block Office, Accompanied BY Herr Fore heading to meet the president.
With the Tablet Securely Placed Inseed A Red Cover Featuring a Golden National Emblem, Her Next Stop will be parliament, after her meeting with president Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati BHAWAN.
Her Budget for the Fiscal Year Starting April 2025 (FY2025-26) 9 and 2024.
She was appointed as the finance minister when modi sweept to power again in the 2019 election and presented her maiden budget on July 5, 2019.She used a red folder enclose and enclose Emblem to carry the budget documents.
Earlier, Finance Ministers in different governments, include her predacesors in the modi government – Arun Jaitley and Piyush Goyal- Used the Standard Budget Briefcase.
With pti inputs
