Union Budget 2020-2021
Short Description
    The Union Budget of India for 2020–2021 was presented by the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2020, as her second budget. This is the second budget of Narendra Modi led NDA government's second term. The Economic Survey for 2019-2020 is released on 31 January 2020, a day before the budget. Before the budget speech the report of the 15th Finance Commission was tabled by the Finance Minister.
    The central ideas of the Budget are - "Aspirational India, Economic development, A Caring Society." These three broad themes are connected by governance that is corruption free and a financial sector that is clean and sound.
    Notably, Nirmala Sitharaman read out a Kashmiri poem[a] during the budget speech in the Parliament, a Tamil couplet written by Thiruvalluvar and a verse from the Sanskrit work Raghuvamsam as well as a French phrase. Some of the aims announced were "improving digital governance, physical quality of life, disaster resilience and social security reach".
    The central ideas of the Budget are - "Aspirational India, Economic development, A Caring Society." These three broad themes are connected by governance that is corruption free and a financial sector that is clean and sound.
    Notably, Nirmala Sitharaman read out a Kashmiri poem[a] during the budget speech in the Parliament, a Tamil couplet written by Thiruvalluvar and a verse from the Sanskrit work Raghuvamsam as well as a French phrase. Some of the aims announced were "improving digital governance, physical quality of life, disaster resilience and social security reach".