Budget 2024: Live Update Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting an interim budget. Following the Lok Sabha elections, the new administration will propose its comprehensive budget.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Central Budget 2024 to Parliament. This is an interim budget, issued immediately before the Lok Sabha elections.
This is Nirmala Sitharaman's sixth central budget. The next government, which takes office following the elections, will propose the entire budget.
The Interim Budget, a short-term financial plan, seeks parliamentary permission for advance funding to cover the government's critical expenses for the first four months of the next fiscal year.
Parliament's budget session began yesterday with a joint sitting of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, presided over by President Draupadi Murmu. The session will end on February 9.
The stock market opened higher today, ahead of the interim budget.
