Pre-Budget Consultation Starts Dec 6: Finance Minister to Meet Stakeholders
By Rediff Money Desk, New Delhi Dec 03, 2024 22:12
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to start pre-Budget consultations from Dec 6. Meetings with economists, farmers, MSME stakeholders and industry leaders are scheduled.
New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will commence customary pre-Budget consultations with various stakeholders beginning Friday.
As part of the process, she will meet eminent economists on December 6 to seek their inputs regarding upcoming Budget amid seven-quarter low GDP print of 5.4 per cent recorded in the second quarter of the current financial year.
It will be followed by a meeting with farmer associations and agriculture economists and stakeholders in MSME sector scheduled for December 7, sources said.
Union Budget 2025-26 is likely to be tabled in Parliament on February 1.
This would be the eighth straight Budget to be presented by Sitharaman.
This would be the second full budget of the Modi 3.0 government, which is going give policy direction for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat (developed India) by 2047.
The pre-Budget consultation will end on December 30 with consultations with captains of Indian industry and players in the social sector, especially education and health.
In between, meetings are scheduled with trade unions, financial sectors, services sectors etc, the sources said.
These meetings are chaired by the finance minister. Besides the finance minister, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary; Finance Secretary and DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey; Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth; Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra; and Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju are expected to be present.
The Budget for the current fiscal had projected a nominal GDP growth of 10.5 per cent, while fiscal deficit was pegged at 4.9 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in 2017 scrapped a colonial-era tradition of presenting the Budget at the end of February. The erstwhile finance minister Arun Jaitley had for the first time presented the annual accounts on February 1, 2017.
With the preponement of the Budget, ministries are now allocated their budgeted funds from the start of the financial year beginning April. This gives government departments more leeway to spend as well as allow companies time to adapt to business and taxation plans.
As part of the process, she will meet eminent economists on December 6 to seek their inputs regarding upcoming Budget amid seven-quarter low GDP print of 5.4 per cent recorded in the second quarter of the current financial year.
It will be followed by a meeting with farmer associations and agriculture economists and stakeholders in MSME sector scheduled for December 7, sources said.
Union Budget 2025-26 is likely to be tabled in Parliament on February 1.
This would be the eighth straight Budget to be presented by Sitharaman.
This would be the second full budget of the Modi 3.0 government, which is going give policy direction for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat (developed India) by 2047.
The pre-Budget consultation will end on December 30 with consultations with captains of Indian industry and players in the social sector, especially education and health.
In between, meetings are scheduled with trade unions, financial sectors, services sectors etc, the sources said.
These meetings are chaired by the finance minister. Besides the finance minister, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary; Finance Secretary and DIPAM Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey; Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth; Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra; and Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju are expected to be present.
The Budget for the current fiscal had projected a nominal GDP growth of 10.5 per cent, while fiscal deficit was pegged at 4.9 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in 2017 scrapped a colonial-era tradition of presenting the Budget at the end of February. The erstwhile finance minister Arun Jaitley had for the first time presented the annual accounts on February 1, 2017.
With the preponement of the Budget, ministries are now allocated their budgeted funds from the start of the financial year beginning April. This gives government departments more leeway to spend as well as allow companies time to adapt to business and taxation plans.
Source: PTI
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