The Budget is expected to balance the aspiration of the middle class for tax cut and needs of the economy to boost growth. Pics/PTI
Sitharaman also posed for group photo with Minister of State Pankaj Chaudhary and the full budget 2025-26 team after giving final touches to the Union Budget on Friday
The Budget 2025 is expected to contain measures to shore up weakening economic growth and ease the burden on the middle class
Sitharaman also interacted with the secretaries and the senior officials involved in the Budget making process at her office in North Block," the finance ministry said in a post on X
The Budget will come in the backdrop of the GDP growth rate projected to fall to 4-year low of 6.4 per cent in the current financial year, close to its decadal average
The Economic Survey 2024-25 tabled by the Finance Minister in both Houses has estimated India's GDP growing in the range of 6.3-6.8 per cent in FY26
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