Budget 2025 Live: FM Nirmala Sitharaman presents Union Budget 2025 – 26

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Union Budget 2025 during Parliament’s Budget session, which commenced on January 31, 2025. The session’s first phase will conclude on February 13, 2025.

– Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the Parliament. She will present the Union Budget shortly.

– President Droupadi Murmu feeds Union Finance Minister #NirmalaSitharaman the customary ‘dahi-cheeni’ (curd and sugar) ahead of her Budget presentation

– Finance Minister leaves from the Ministry of Finance for Rashtrapati Bhavan.

 

– Copies of Union Budget 2025 are brought to parliament as Union Finance minister will today table her 8th Union Budget, for the fiscal year 2025-26, in Lok Sabha.

This year Sitharaman is presenting her eighth budget. Previously, she delivered six annual budgets and two interim budgets.

Meanwhile, the Economic Survey 2024-2025, which was tabled in the parliament on January 31st, states that “the nation’s real GDP growth is estimated at 6.4 per cent in FY25 (as per first advance estimates of national income), which equates nearly to its decadal average”

The survey has also outlined that the real GDP growth in FY26 is expected to grow between 6.3 and 6.8 per cent, keeping in mind the upsides and downsides to growth

It further highlights that India’s economy is on a stable growth trajectory, with a positive macroeconomic outlook, supported by strong corporate and financial sector balance sheets. DeshGujarat