TMI BlogPrinting of Budget Documents of Union Budget 2015-16 Commenced with Halwa Ceremony; more than 100 Officials Involved in Making the Union Budget will be Locked in Press Till Union Budget is Presented in Lok Sabha by the Finance Minister on 28th February, 2015X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Printing of Budget Documents of Union Budget 2015-16 Commenced with Halwa Ceremony; more than 100 Officials Involved in Making the Union Budget will be Locked in Press Till Union Budget is Presented in Lok Sabha by the Finance Minister on 28th February, 2015 - Budget Dated:- 19-2-2015 - News - More than 100 officials involved in making the Union Budget 2015-16 will be locked in from tomorrow in ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the Budget Press in North Block and will remain there till the Finance Minister s Budget Speech is over in Lok Sabha on 28th February, 2015. Halwa Ceremony marking the commencement of printing process of Budget documents of Union Budget 2015-16 was held here today in the presence of the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley. To maintain the secrecy of the Budget preparation process, there is ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... a lock-in of the officials involved in making the Budget. Budget Press in North Block houses all these officials in the period leading up to the presentation of Union Budget in Parliament by the Finance Minister. These officers will gain touch with their near and dear ones only after the Union Budget is presented by the Finance Minister on Saturday, 28th February, 2015. The Finance Minister S ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... hri Jaitley was accompanied by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister for State for Finance, Shri Rajiv Mehrishi, Finance Secretary, Shri Shaktikanta Das, Revenue Secretary, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ms Aradhna Johri, Secretary, Department of Disinvestment, Ms. Anita Kapur, Chairperson, CBDT, Shri Kaushal Shrivastav, Chairman, CBEC, Shri Rajat Bhargava, Joint Secretary ( ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Budget), DEA and senior officers of the Ministry of Finance among others. The Annual Budget is prepared by the Budget Division of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) headed by the Joint Secretary (Budget) of the Ministry of Finance. To start the process, the Budget Division issues an Annual Budget circular every year. This Annual Budget Circular contains detailed instructions for the Union Gov ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ernment Ministries/Departments relating to the form and content of the Statement of Budget Estimates to be prepared. As per the Constitution, the Union Budget is to be presented in the Parliament on such a day as the President of India may direct. The Union Budget for the current year (2015-16) would be presented on 28th February, 2015. The first Union Budget of Independent India was present ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ed by Shri R.K. Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947. The Union Budgets for the fiscal years 1959-61 to 1963-64, inclusive of the Interim Budget for 1962-63, were presented by Shri Morarji Desai. Shri Vyas presented budgets that included five Annual Budgets, an Interim Budget during his first stint and one Interim Budget and three Final Budgets in his second tenure when he was both the Finance M ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... inister and the Deputy Prime Minister of India. After Shri Morarji Desai s resignation, Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, took over the charge of the Ministry of Finance to become the only woman to hold the post of the Finance Minister. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the first Rajya Sabha member to hold the Finance portfolio, presented the Annual Budgets for 1982-83, 1983-84 and 1984-8 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 5. Shri Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, presented the Budget for 1987-89 after Shri V P Singh, then Finance Minister quit his Government. Shri N. D. Tiwary presented the Union Budget for 1988-89, Shri S B Chavan for 1989-90, while Shri Madhu Dandawate presented the Union budget for 1990-91. Due to political developments, early elections were held in May 1991 and Dr. Manmohan Singh ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... became the Finance Minister and presented the budget for 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96. After Lok Sabha General Elections in 1996, a non-Congress Ministry assumed office. The Final Budget for 1996-97 and 1997-98 were presented by Shri P. Chidambaram. After the General Elections in March 1998 that led to formation of Government by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) led NDA, Shri Yashw ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ant Sinha, the then Finance Minister in the Government, presented the Interim and Final Budgets for 1998-99 and four Annual Budgets from 1999-2000 to 2002-2003. Due to Lok Sabha General Elections in May 2004, an Interim Budget was presented by Shri Jaswant Singh. After the elections, Congress led UPA formed the Government at the Centre and Shri P Chidambaram became the Finance Minister who present ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ed the Union Budgets for 2004-05 to 2008-09. He was succeeded by Shri Pranab Mukherjee who presented the Interim and Final Union Budget for 2009-10 and also Union Budgets for 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13. Shri Chidambaram took over again the charge of the Ministry of Finance in August 2012 and presented the Union Budget 2013-14 and the Interim Budget 2015-16. After the Lok Sabha General Electio ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ns in 2014, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) led by Shri Shri Narendra Modi formed the Government at the Centre in May 2014. Shri Arun Jaitley took over the charge as the Finance Minister in the new Government. He presented his First Budget in Parliament on 10th July, 2014. This will be his second Budget as the Union Finance Minister. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagement ..... 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