Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman along with MoS Finance Anurag Thakur leave from Ministry of Finance. The Union Budget 2021 will be presented at Parliament at 11 am today.
Usually, the duration of the presentation ranges from 90 to 120 minutes. This year, the Union Budget will be delivered in paperless form for the first time. It will be available for all as a soft copy, online.
Breaking from tradition since Independence, the Union Budget will not be printed this year due to COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the FM had ditched the leather briefcase for a traditional “bahi khaata” or red, handmade ledger, saying that it was “high time we move on from the British hangover, to do something on our own”.
