TNPSC Thervupettagam

Budget 2019-2020

July 8 , 2019 1857 days 723 0
  • 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.

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