Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget for the upcoming year on Saturday, February 1, 2025. The first part of the Budget session will begin on January 31 and conclude on February 13, 2025. The second part will begin on March 10 and end on April 4, 2025.
The Union Budget 2025 will be Ms. Sitharaman’s second budget speech in the Narendra Modi-led NDA 3.0 government and her eighth budget in Parliament. She has presented six annual and two interim budgets throughout the NDA government’s term in office, the most of any of her predecessors, including Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P. Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha, and Morarji Desai.
When to watch
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her Budget speech in the Lok Sabha at 11 a.m., on Saturday (February 1, 2025). She will be outlining budgetary allocations and revenue expectations for the financial year 2025-26. The Budget documents will be tabled in Rajya Sabha after the speech gets over in the lower house.
Where to watch
To catch the live streaming of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech, viewers can tune in to Sansad TV, the television channel that is dedicated for the parliamentary proceedings. India’s official public broadcaster Doordarshan’s news channel DD News will also telecast the speech.
Sansad TV will also run live streams on its YouTube channel.
The Hindu will be running live blogs for the Budget speech, political, industry and market reactions, along with in-depth articles, viewpoints from experts, and data analyses among others. The Hindu’s Budget coverage can be accessed in the Budget section.
Published – January 28, 2025 01:06 pm IST
