New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday leaves from North Block for ...

presented the Union Budget 2021 — with a sharp focus on digital transformation and the next phase of economic recovery after the Covid-induced market recession. She also ditched the bahi khata ...

Annual Union Budget presentation holds huge economic ... carrying a 'Gladstone Box', FM Sitharaman in 2019 switched to 'Bahi Khata'. In 2021, the concept of paperless budget was introduced.

The first Union Budget was introduced in India on April 7 ... That year, Sitharaman did away with the traditional budget briefcase and instead went for a traditional 'bahi-khata' with the National ...

The Union Cabinet met thereafter to clear ... Sitharaman continued with the tradition she set in 2019, carrying the budget speech in a 'bahi-khata', which she used after dropping the briefcase ...

Sitharaman had in her first Budget in 2019 replaced leather briefcase -- which had been in used for decades for carrying Budget documents -- with a traditional 'bahi-khata' wrapped in red cloth.