Nirmala Sitharaman to present Union Budget 2021 today
Union Budget 2021: Today, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to announce the Union Budget for the year 2021.
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The budget is going to be announced from 11 am onwards, ahead of that, the finance minister will hold a meeting at 10.15 am.
Union budget 2021 is going to be the 3rd budget to be presented by Nirmala Sitharaman and 9th budget of the Modi government.
The upcoming budget will be paperless as the Finance Ministry has decided not to print the budget documents because of the Covid pandemic.
This year's budget holds special importance because of the pandemic's effect on the economy. Sitharaman has stated that Union budget 2021 will be like “never before”.
On Saturday, Parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said that the budget session which began on January 29, will take up 38 legislative terms.
This year's budget has a lot of hopes because the the country hopes to recover from the covid pandemic that ravaged almost every other sector.