Budget 2025 Key Highlights: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her 8th budget in a row on Saturday, February 1, 2025. FM Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the Parliament to present Union Budget 2025.

The meeting would take place a day after the RBI announces the outcome of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting amid wide expectation of a rate cut by the central bank to boost moderating GDP growth.

Sitharaman holds the record for the longest budget speech when her presentation lasted 2 hours and 40 minutes in 2020.

In her exclusive conversation with Navika Kumar on Monday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman shared her thoughts on work life balance and the 90-hour workweek debate. “I think every person has his own assessment of how long he wants to do his work.

Highlights: FM Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement on February 1 brings a gift for the Indian middle class with no tax payable up to ₹12 lakh income.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the the tax proposal will allow people to have more money in their hands.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth Union Budget on February 1, 2025, nearing Morarji Desai's record of 10. India's Budget history includes milestones like the longest speech by Sitharaman in 2020 and the shortest by Hirubhai Patel in 1977.

Nirmala Sitharaman makes history by presenting her 8th consecutive Union Budget 2025, maintaining the record for the most consecutive budgets under a single Prime Minister. Appointed India's first full-time woman finance minister in 2019,