Union Budget 2024 LIVE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget 2024-25 on July 23. The Budget, which is going to be her 7th, is expected to expected to push growth apart from providing relief to various sections of the society. Demands are coming in to the government ranging from tax relief for middle class to the sector-specific needs.
On Thursday, PM Narendra Modi also met the country’s eminent economists to discuss budget and the focus was given to the job creation. This will be the first major economic document of the Modi 3.0 government, which, among other things, is expected to lay the road map for making India a developed nation by 2047.
The economy has recorded a growth rate of 8.2 per cent in 2023-24 Earlier in February, Sitharaman came out with an interim budget for 2024-25 in view of the Lok Sabha elections.