Budget JK UT will also be presented during the session
Sanctity of Parliament should always be maintained: Rajnath Singh
New Delhi, July 21: In a pivotal meeting held today, Union Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, chaired a crucial discussion with the Floor Leaders of all political parties ahead of the Budget Session of Parliament. This meeting marked the first gathering of the floor leaders following the constitution of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, announced that the Budget Session will commence on Monday, July 22, 2024, and is scheduled to conclude on Monday, August 12, 2024. The session will span 22 days and include 16 sittings. The Union Budget for 2024-25 will be presented to the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. The Economic Survey of India and the Budget for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will also be tabled on the same day.
Rijiju noted that the session will primarily focus on financial matters related to the Union Budget but will also address essential legislative business. A tentative list includes six legislative bills and three items of financial business.
In his address, Rijiju emphasized the government’s readiness to discuss any issues permitted under the rules of procedure and urged party leaders to support the smooth functioning of Parliament. He was joined by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda, Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha; Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Dr. L. Murugan.
The government is also all set to introduce five Bills during the session. These include the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 which is aimed at facilitating a legal way of replacing the British-era Aircraft Act of 1934 to ensure provisions for ease of doing business in India’s civil aviation sector.
Other Bills are — The Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2024, The Disaster Management (Amendment) Law Bill and the Boilers Bill, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, The Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2024 and The Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2024.
The session will also discuss financial business, including general discussion on Union Budget, 2024-25, discussion and voting on Demands for Grants for 2024-25 and related Appropriation Bill, discussion and voting on Demands for Grants of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir for 2024-25 and related Appropriation Bill.
Concluding the meeting, Shri Rajnath Singh expressed gratitude to the leaders for raising key issues and stressed the importance of maintaining parliamentary sanctity. The meeting saw participation from 55 leaders representing 41 political parties.
FM set to make history with 7th consecutive Budget
New Delhi, July 21: Finance Minister NirmalaSitharaman is set to create history when she presents her seventh straight Budget on Tuesday for the fiscal 2024-25, surpassing the record of former prime ministerMorarji Desai.
Sitharaman, who will turn 65 next month, was in 2019 appointed as India’s first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister NarendraModi won a decisive second term. Since then, she has presented six straight budgets, including an interim one in February this year.
The full Budget for the 2024-25 fiscal (April 2024 to March 2025) will be her seventh straight. She will better Desai’s record, who presented consecutive five full budgets and one interim budget between 1959 to 1964.
This year will witness two budgets – an interim one in February and a full one this month. This is because an incumbent government cannot present a full Budget just before general elections.
The presentation on July 23 will be the first Budget by the BJP-led NDA government since it was re-elected last month.
