New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2022 in the Parliament at 11 am today. From businessmen to the working-class, everyone is waiting for relief measures.
The Budget presentation have always been in the talk. When Sitharaman presented her maiden budget in 2019, she drew the nation’s attention as she Sitharaman broke away from long-standing traditions of carrying budget documents in a briefcase and opted for traditional bahi khata.
However, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Government’s push towards a “Digital India”, bahi khata was replaced with a tablet in 2021.
The Finance Minister was seen carrying a tablet kept inside a red coloured cover with a golden coloured national emblem embossed on it.
The word ‘budget’ has its origin in the French word Bougette, which means leather briefcase. Traditionally, budget documents — which primarily include papers related to revenue receipt and expenditure as well as the speech of the finance minister — were carried in a brown briefcase, a legacy passed on by the British.
