Locals in Kanpur perform hawan ahead of Union Budget 2021 ANI | Updated: Feb 01, 2021 09:47 IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 1 (ANI): Ahead of the Union Budget 2021, a hawan was conducted in Uttar Pradesh s Kanpur on Monday marking the massive expectations from it.
Prayers were performed by the people with posters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adtiyanath.
Locals appealed to PM Modi to give relief to the general public from inflation and expected the budget to be in the public interest while conducting the hawan .
Meanwhile, the Budget presentation will begin with a speech from Finance Minister scheduled to take place at around 11 am. The duration of the budget speech usually ranges from 90 to 120 minutes.
The Union Cabinet will hold a meeting at 10:15 am before the presentation.Usually, the duration of the presentation ranges from 90 to 120 minutes. This year, the Union Budget will be delivered in paperless form for the first time.
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Updated: February 01, 2021 10:47 am IST
Budget 2021: The paperless Budget is seen to be a push for PM Modi s Digital India mission.
Highlights
This morning, she was seen carrying a tablet in a red sleeve
The paperless Budget, presented amid restrictions because of Covid
New Delhi:
Reports said the tablet was a Made in India device.
Nirmala Sitharaman had famously replaced the standard Budget briefcase of finance ministers with the traditional red
On the first day of the budget session of Parliament, FM Sitharaman on Friday tabled the pre-budget Economic Survey for 2020-21, which projected a 'V'-shaped recovery for the economy in the next financial year. The economy is projected to contract by 7.7 per cent in the current fiscal ending March 31, 2021 and expanding by 11 per cent in the next.