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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to present Union Budget today

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to present Union Budget today

| | 01 Feb 2018, 09:58 am

New Delhi, Feb  1 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Union Budget at 11 am on Thursday.

Before presenting the Budget, Jaitley met President  Ram Nath Kovind.

The official Twitter page of the President of India said: "As per tradition, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley calls on #PresidentKovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan before presenting the Union Budget."

The government on Monday tabled in Parliament the Economic Survey of India which projected GDP growth between  7 and 7.5 per cent in  2018-19, reports said.

The Economic Survey 2017-18 was presented by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely on the opening day of the budget session.

The recent projection by the World Bank shows that the Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.3 per cent in 2018-19. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) gives a growth projection of 7.4 per cent.

 

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