(FE)
On Friday, Nirmala Sitharaman will create history by becoming the first full-time women Finance Minister to present the Budget 2019 in Lok Sabha. It will be Modi government’s first India Union Budget after winning a decisive mandate in the Lok Sabha Elections 2019. Financial express Online will bring to you minute by minute updates of Union Budget 2019 Live. The Budget 2019 speech is expected to set the tone for Modi 2.0. Amid sluggish economic growth, difficult fiscal scenario and rising unemployment, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Union Budget 2019 speech, will lay out a roadmap for the economy of India.
The Financial Express Online’s survey conducted among the top economists and experts of the country picked agriculture, infrastructure and employment as the key focus areas for Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2019. PM Modi’s new focus area of Water For All or Jal Shakti also featured extensively in the survey and economists believed that it can have a big impact. While most experts and economists polled by Financial Express Online in the pre-Budget 2019 Survey believe the fiscal deficit target will not be breached, they also feel that some notional income tax relief for the common man and middle-class is possible. Union Budget 2019 LIVE will be aired from 11 am on Friday.
