New Delhi July 6 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government will present the federal budget for the fiscal year through March 2025 on July 23, a senior minister said Saturday.
Parliament’s budget session will run from July 22 until Aug. 12, Kiren Rijiju, India’s parliamentary affairs minister, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
A key regional ally of Modi’s coalition government is demanding financial support of more than 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) for the state it runs in southern India, adding pressure on the federal budget, Bloomberg News reported.
