Union Budget 2022: Date, time, where to watch, and everything you need to know

The session will be divided into two halves. The first half of the session will convene from 31st January to 14th February. The second half will resume from 14th March and will end on 8th April. The Budget will be presented on 1st February. The timing is expected to be around 11 A.M. The Budget will be streamed live on Sansad TV as well as Doordarshan channels

The Modi-government is set to present its 8th budget on 1st February 2022. All the focus will be on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as she puts out crucial monetary proposals, layouts and programmes to chart out India’s economic recovery with a focus on large-scale industrialization factoring in the irregular disruptions posed by the pandemic.

Budget session:
The Budget session will be inaugurated by President Ram Nath Kovind with an address to a joint Parliamentary session in the Central Hall on 31st January. The session will be divided into two halves. The first half of the session will convene from 31st January to 14th February. The second half will resume from 14th March and will end on 8th April.  

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Budget 22-23 Date and Time:
The Budget will be presented on 1st February. The timing is expected to be around 11 A.M.

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Where to watch:
The Budget will be streamed live on Sansad TV as well as Doordarshan channels both on cable as well as their respective YouTube channels. One can get regular updates and clips of the budget on Sansad TV’s social media accounts such as /@sansad_tv for twitter as well as the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting twitter account /@MIB_India.

Interesting facts:
Like previous year, this year’s budget will also be presented paperless. The Ministry of Finance also launched “Union Budget” mobile application for both android and iOS users for quick and easy access of budget and crucial details for the general public.

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Before 1999, the government followed the colonial tradition of presenting the Union Budget in the evening. It was Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s BJP government, under the initiative of then Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha which dumped this tradition and shifted the timings from around 5 P.M. to 11 A.M.

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In 2016, the Modi-led BJP government merged Railway Budget with General budget hence ending a 92-years-old colonial tradition which began in 1924. The Modi-government ended another colonial-era practice of holding a budget on the last working day of February to the 1st February in 2017.    

The longest-ever budget was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in 2020, lasting around 160 minutes. Nirmala Sitharaman is the second woman Finance Minister of the country after ex PM Indira Gandhi who held the portfolio in 1969-70.  
 

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