FM Nirmala Sitharaman to present Union Budget for 2022-2023 in Parliament at 11 am

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget for the Financial Year 2022-23 in the Lok Sabha at 11 am today.

The copy of the Budget will be laid on the Table of the Rajya Sabha soon thereafter. A meeting of the Union Cabinet will be held this morning to approve the Union Budget 2022-23. After getting the nod from the Cabinet, the Finance Minister will present the Union Budget in a paperless form for the second time in Parliament. Earlier, the Union Budget of 2021-22 was delivered in paperless form last year for the first time.

This is the fourth budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament. For the Budget-2022-23, the Finance Minister had held several pre-budget consultation meetings with stakeholder groups including Economists, Agriculture and Agro Processing Industry, Trade Union and Labour Organizations, Financial Sector and Capital Markets, Industry, Services and Trade, Social Sector, Infrastructure and Climate Change sector. Ms Sitharaman had also held Pre-Budget consultation with Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories for the Budget.

The Budget will be made available on Mobile App after it is presented in Parliament. The Union Budget Mobile App has been launched for hassle-free access of Budget documents by Members of Parliament and the general public. The mobile App allows complete access to 14 Union Budget documents, including the Budget Speech, Annual Financial Statement, Demand for Grants and Finance Bill.