Cabinet Committee Recommends Holding Budget Session From January 31 

Cabinet Committee Recommends Holding Budget Session From January 31 
The Indian Parliament building in New Delhi (Photographer: Dilip Banerjee/Bloomberg News)

The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs today recommended holding the Budget Session from January 31. The government is likely to table the Economic Survey followed by the Union Budget on February 1.

The CCPA headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh met here and made these recommendations to President Pranab Mukherjee.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also attended the meeting.

In a first, the government has decided to present the Budget on February 1 instead of the last day of the month as part of an overhaul that would also scrap the practice of a separate railway budget.

The first part of the Budget Session of Parliament will run till February 9.

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