Budget 2024: FM Sitharaman begins speech after meeting President Murmu

By Priyanka Deshpande

CNBC-TV18.com

Published July 23, 2024

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman began her Budget speech for 2024-25 on Tuesday after calling on President Droupadi Murmu.

As per established tradition, the finance minister met the President at the Rashtrapati Bhavan before heading to Parliament, the PTI reported.

President Murmu offered 'dahi-chini' (curd-sugar), considered auspicious, to Sitharaman before she left for Parliament to present the Union Budget.

The Union Cabinet met thereafter to clear the Budget. Before the actual presentation in Parliament, the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will approve the Budget for fiscal 2024-25 (April 2024 to March 2025).

This is Sitharaman's seventh Budget in the Lok Sabha 

The Budget would give a glimpse of the Modi government's performance in the past 10 years while outlining the roadmap to make India a developed nation.