Budget 2024 LIVE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2024-25 today after presenting the Economic Survey. The Union Budget will be presented in Parliament at 11 am. This will be the first budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term. This will be Nirmala Sitharaman’s seventh consecutive budget as Finance Minister. With this, she will surpass the record of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai of presenting five annual budgets and one interim budget as Finance Minister. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented five consecutive budgets and Pranab Mukherjee also presented five consecutive budgets.
This year the budget is being presented in the monsoon session, as the interim budget was presented in February due to the Lok Sabha elections. The monsoon session began on July 22 and will have 19 meetings till August 12. On the budget, PM Modi said that this is an “important budget for Amrit Kaal. The budget will set the direction for our next 5-year tenure. This budget will also become a strong foundation for our dream of a developed India.”