New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday leaves from North Block for Rashtrapati Bhavan carrying her trademark 'bahi-khata', a tablet wrapped in a ...

India Union Budget 2025-26 LIVE UIndian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will today (Saturday, Feb 1) present the Union Budget for 2025-26, a day after the unveiling of the Economic Survey.

the union budget was carried in a briefcase, a practice initiated by India’s first FM, Sir RK Shanmukham Chetty. In 2019, the budget was presented as a traditional bahi-khata for the first time.

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 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 ...