Budget 2024 Live: Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 2024
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CHENNAI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to unveil the Interim Budget 2024 today, February 1.
This marks the conclusive budget of the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government since the Lok Sabha elections 2024 are scheduled in April-May.
This will be her sixth Budget as the Finance Minister and last in the second term of the Modi government.
This budget is interim in nature and the comprehensive budget for the financial year 2024-25 will be introduced only after the formation of the new government following the general elections.
Interim Budget: An Interim Budget allocates funds for essential government operations, ongoing schemes and urgent requirements. Since it is not a budget for a full year, it refrains from policy reforms.
After Lok Sabha elections, Newly appointed government will present a full budget.
Live Updates
- 1 Feb 2024 10:52 AM IST
Ahead of NDA govt's interim Budget, Union minister Anupriya Patel says, "I hope the provisions of this budget will be to fulfil the aims of becoming Viksit Bharat and a 5 trillion dollar economy."
- 1 Feb 2024 10:34 AM IST
FM Nirmala Sitharaman along with Ministers Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary and senior officials of the Ministry of Finance called on President #DroupadiMurmu at #RashtrapatiBhavan before presenting the Union Budget.#Budget #Budget2024 #BudgetSession pic.twitter.com/Omhy6hOYeS
— DT Next (@dt_next) February 1, 2024 - 1 Feb 2024 10:25 AM IST
Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman along with Ministers of State Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary and senior officials of the Ministry of Finance called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan before presenting the Union Budget
- 1 Feb 2024 10:25 AM IST
Union Finance Minister @nsitharaman, holding a folder-case containing the Interim Budget 2024, poses for photos outside the Finance Ministry, in New Delhi.#Budget #Budget2024 #BudgetSession #BudgetSession2024 #2024BudgetSession #NirmalaSitharaman #BahiKhata pic.twitter.com/hYzfwxIVIv
— DT Next (@dt_next) February 1, 2024 - 1 Feb 2024 10:24 AM IST
Ahead of the presentation of the Union Interim Budget, Congress MP Manickam Tagore says, "...Hope that Nirmala Sitharaman delivers on the promises which they admitted. Instead of diverting from the real issues, let them address unemployment, the farmers' pain, MSME sector's problems and the price rise. We hope that the Interim Budget addresses these important issues, instead of only helping the friends like Adani and other business houses on whose pillars the Modi government is running."
- 1 Feb 2024 10:20 AM IST
"They (BJP government) cannot make any policy announcement in this budget. It (interim budget) is a routine thing, and only after the new government takes charge, they will present a fresh budget," says DMK leader TKS Elangovan.
- 1 Feb 2024 10:16 AM IST
"They will try to hoodwink the people of India...," says MDMK MP Vaiko on the government's interim Budget today.
#WATCH | "They will try to hoodwink the people of India...," says MDMK MP Vaiko on the government's interim Budget today. pic.twitter.com/lnzd5dqWcl
— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2024
