{"id":276382,"date":"2026-01-13T00:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276382"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:49:08","slug":"fm-to-present-general-budget-on-1-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/fm-to-present-general-budget-on-1-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"FM to present general budget on 1 Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 12 Jan:<\/strong> In a first, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the union budget in Parliament on Sunday (1 February), Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This will be Sitharaman&#8217;s ninth budget presentation, one short of the record 10 budgets presented by the former finance minister Morarji Desai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The budget session of Parliament begins on 28 January with President Droupadi Murmu addressing the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha members assembled in the Lok Sabha chamber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitharaman is likely to present the economic survey in both the Houses of Parliament after the president&#8217;s address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the provisional calendar issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat, the House will also meet on 29 January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The finance minister will present the general budget on 1 February, which has been designated as the Budget Day by the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju had said that the budget session would begin on 28 January and continue till 2 April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first part of the session will conclude on 13 February and reconvene on 9 March, allowing time for the scrutiny of budget proposals by parliamentary committees. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 12 Jan: In a first, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the union budget in Parliament on Sunday (1 February), Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced on Monday. This will be Sitharaman&#8217;s ninth budget presentation, one short of the record 10 budgets presented by the former finance minister Morarji Desai. The budget session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}