Budget 2026 LIVE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present her ninth Budget today

The place where the Finance Minister will be posing with the Budget paper at the new Finance Ministry, Kartavya Bhavan 1 in New Delhi on February 1, 2026.
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R.V. Moorthy

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her ninth Budget in the Parliament today (February 1, 2026). This is the first time in the history of India that the Union Budget is being presented on a Sunday. 

The Budget is expected to unveil measures to sustain growth momentum, maintain fiscal discipline, and contain reforms that could buffer the economy from global trade frictions, including U.S. tariffs.

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The Economic Survey 2025-26, authored by Chief Economic Advisor V. Anantha Nageswaran, was tabled in Parliament on Thursday (January 29, 2026) by Ms. Sitharaman. For the current financial year 2025-26, the Survey highlighted the government’s estimate of 7.4% growth, adding that its ‘nowcast’ estimate for growth in Q3 (October-December 2025) stood at 7%. For 2026-27, the Survey estimates a growth rate range of 6.8-7.2%.

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