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Union Budget 2019 Live Updates: Budget will provide strength to poor, better future to youth, PM says
Newly appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Friday present the first budget of the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
New Delhi: Newly appointed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Friday present the first budget of the second term of the Narendra Modi government.
It will also be the maiden budget for Sitharaman, who becomes the second woman finance minister after Indira Gandhi to do so in the history of independent India.
Sitharaman will present the full-year Budget for the year ending March 2020
The Budget speech will begin around 11:00 am with Sitharaman beginning it with an address to the speaker of Lok Sabha.
Usually the duration of the presentation ranges from 90 to 120 minutes.
The Railway Budget will also be presented on Friday along with the Union Budget. This practice was also begun in the year 2016, where the practice of presenting the rail budget separately was discarded.
Union Budget 2019 Live Updates:
