On Saturday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired a pre-Budget meeting with various farmer associations and leading agricultural economists to gather their inputs and suggestions for the upcoming Budget.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman has chaired a pre-Budget meeting with leading economist for taking their inputs and suggestions for the upcoming Budget for 2025-26.
"They had called a pre-budget meeting, where we asked the centre to provide grants of Rs 5,300 crore for the Upper Bhadra Project, which was announced by themselves. Is it there in the budget?" he questioned.
The Pre-Budget consultations for Union Budget 2024-25 that started from 19th June 2024 onward in the Ministry of Finance and chaired by Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman concluded on July 5.
During the pre-budget meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Delhi on Thursday, health experts emphasized the need to increase the availability of hospital beds in the country. They pointed out that the current bed availability is significantly below World Health Organization
High-ranking officials, including the Secretaries of the Department of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as well as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, were also in attendance, underscoring the importance of the consultation process.
Chhattisgarh Finance Minister OP Choudhary on Saturday attended the pre-budget meeting and submitted a comprehensive set of proposals in the interest of the state, including the amount of special assistance to the states, development of the State Capital Region and expansion of the rail netw
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presiding over the meeting. The state ministers, along with other stakeholders, will table their requests during the meeting.
In a pre-budget meeting with Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, the Kisan lobby advocated for lifting the ban on exports of several agricultural products.
As part of the preparations for the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the second pre-budget Consultation with leading experts of the financial and capital markets sector here today.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the first pre-budget meeting with leading economists in Delhi on Wednesday as part of pre-budget consultations for the General Budget 2024-25.