The Budget Session of Parliament is scheduled between January 31 and April 4 — in two parts — with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present the Budget for the eighth consecutive time on February 1.
As per the provisional calendar released by the Lok Sabha Secratariat, it will start with President Droupadi Murmu's address to a joint sitting of both Houses of the Parliament — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31 and then the presentation of the Economic Survey.
According to X, it is written here by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju that: "The Hon'ble President of India Smt Droupadi Murmu ji on the recommendation of the Government of India, has approved summoning both Houses of Parliament for the Budget Session 2025 from 31st January, 2025 to 4th April 2025 (subject to exigencies of parliamentary business)." On his part, Rijiju stated that he shall be addressed on 31 Jan by President Murmu at 11 a.m. In Lok Sabha Chamber
"Union Budget 2025-26 would be presented in Lok Sabha on 1st February, 2025. Both Houses shall be allowed to go into recess from 13th February, 2025 to reassemble on 10th March, 2025 for consideration and report on Demands for Grants of different Ministries/ Departments", Rijiju wrote. The Budget Session will start with nine sittings from January 31 to February 13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will respond to the Motion of Thanks on the President's address, while Finance Minister Sitharaman will reply to the discussion on the Budget.
After a break to discuss the Budget proposals, the Parliament session will resume on March 10 when discussions on demands for grants of various ministries will be held.
The entire budget session will have 27 sittings, and it will conclude on April 4. FM Sitharaman in July last year, weeks after the formation of the new government at the Centre, presented her seventh Budget. She then broke late Morarji Desai’s record of presenting six consecutive Budgets. FM Sitharaman, a key ministerial figure in the Union Cabinet, had earlier served as junior minister in PM Modi-led government between 2014 and 2017.
She has been the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs from May to November 2014, and then she was the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry from May 2014 to September 2017. Later, she went on to hold senior positions in the Union Cabinet. Sitharaman was the Defence Minister in the first PM Modi-led Cabinet during the Balakot surgical strikes of 2019. She got the charge of Finance Ministry in 2019 in Modi 2.0 Cabinet and has been the Finance Minister since then.
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