Budget 2024 date, time: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the general budget tomorrow i.e. on Tuesday 23 July. The full budget for the financial year 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025) will be the seventh consecutive budget of Finance Minister Sitharaman. Sitharaman was made the first full-time woman Finance Minister of India in 2019, during the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since then, she has presented 6 consecutive budgets, including an interim one in February this year.
The budget to be presented tomorrow will be the seventh consecutive budget of female Finance Minister Sitharaman and the first full budget of the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi formed at the Centre this year. This budget of PM Modi’s third term is considered very important because the BJP-led Modi government has not returned to the Centre with a huge majority this time. Now the question is when will the Finance Minister’s budget speech begin in Parliament and where can it be seen, let us know about it.
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Budget 2024: At what time will the budget speech start
The Finance Minister will present the country’s Union Budget for the financial year 2024-25 in Parliament tomorrow. She is expected to begin her budget speech at 11:00 am on Tuesday. The Union Budget is likely to announce record capital expenditure with a special focus on roadways and Indian Railways. Apart from this, the common man, salaried taxpayers and the middle class are looking towards the Union Budget 2024 for income tax relief announcements, especially changes in the New Tax Regime, which is now the default regime.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave the longest budget speech of two hours and 40 minutes on February 1, 2020. Traditionally, the country’s budget has been 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 in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government presented the budget at 11 am. Since then the budget has been presented at 11 am. After this, in 2017, the date of presenting the budget was changed to February 1, so that the government could complete the parliamentary approval process by the end of March. However, this year PM Modi was crowned for the third consecutive time at the Center. This will be the first full budget of the new government of the BJP-led NDA alliance.
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Budget 2024: When and where can you watch it live
The upcoming budget will outline the Modi government’s financial strategy and economic priorities for the coming year. Big announcements are expected on key areas such as infrastructure development, social welfare programs, tax policies and fiscal deficit targets.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget speech can be watched live on the official website of Financial Express. Apart from this, the budget speech can also be watched on Sansad TV. You can also read news related to the major announcements made during the budget speech on the website of Financial Express.