Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on the financial year 2025-26 on 1 February. Please tell that this is the second budget of the third term of Modi government. But do you also have the question that the budget can be leaked like the exam? Yes, you must have heard many times that many exam papers including board exams are leaked. But can the budget be leaked? Today we will answer you.
Budget will be presented on 1 February
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget of 2025-2026 of PM Narendra Modi’s third term on 1 February. Let us know that due to Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the budget was presented in the month of July. Significantly, after the formation of PM Modi’s government, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first budget of Modi 3.0 term on 23 July 2024.
Can the budget be leaked?
Explain that the process of making budget from the central government is very confidential. If the budget is leaked in any way, then it also affects the national and international market. Now the question is, can it be leaked before the budget is presented? The answer is, it is very difficult. But yes, this has happened twice in history. When the budget was leaked twice before appearing.
When did the budget leaked?
The budget has been leaked twice in the history of independent India. Actually, the first budget of independent India was presented on 1947-1948. At that time Finance Minister RK Shanmukham was a chetty. Those who were associated with the Justice Party, the pro -British supporters. At that time, before the presentation of the budget, UK Finance Minister Hug Dalton had already told the media about the changes related to tax in India’s budget, after which journalists had printed news related to the budget before the budget speech. After this, UK Finance Minister Hug Dalton had to resign. Apart from this, John Mathai was the Finance Minister of India in 1950 for a second time. At that time, the budget of the country was to be presented, on which all the preparations were almost complete. But then the news of the budget leaking was revealed, due to this mistake, John Mathai had to resign.
Place changed after budget leak
Please tell that after Azad India, earlier in Rashtrapati Bhavan where there was a budget print. But after the budget was leaked, there was no way but to change the place of printing. At the same time, the tradition of printing its budget had changed. After this incident, printing of budget had to be shifted to Minto Road in New Delhi. After this, in 1980 too, the place of printing was changed once again and the budget was printed in the basement of North Block (Ministry of Finance).
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