Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the maiden budget of Narendra Modi 2.0 government in the Lok Sabha on July 05, 2019.
“Gaon, Garib and Kisan”(Village, Poor and Farmer) is the centre of all policies of the Modi 2.0 Government.
This is the 89th Union Budget.
Excluding interim budgets, it is the 29th budget post economic liberalisation in 1991.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman became only the second woman in the history of independent India to present the Union Budget.
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was the first and only woman till now to have presented the Union Budget.
In 1970, she presented the Union Budget of India for 1970-71, after she took over the finance portfolio following the resignation of Morarji Desai as finance minister.