How To Watch Union Budget 2017 Live Streaming Online: All You Need To Know
The Union Budget for 2017-18 would be presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament on February 1. This would be the third full-year Budget of the NDA government, which came to power in 2014. The decision to present the Budget on February 1 was taken by the government last year with a view to ensure allocation of funds to the respective ministries from April 1. Till last year, the Budget used to be presented on the last working day of February, which resulted in ministries getting their allocated funds only after the month of April every year. This resulted in delay in the implementation of government funded schemes.
Q.What time does Union Budget 2017 start?
Ans.The budget speech of finance minister will start at 11 am on February 1
Q.How to watch live streaming online of Union Budget 2017?
Ans.The Union Budget will be streamed live on profit.ndtv.com. Click Here
Q.When is Railways Budget 2017?
Ans.The Railways budget has been merged with the union budget and would be presented by Mr Jaitley as part of the main budget
Q. What is GAAR?
Ans. GAAR is a set of rules under which the tax department gets the right to scrutinise transactions if it believes that they are structured for the purpose of avoiding taxes.
This Budget is considered a make-or-break Budget for the NDA government as it is being presented after an unprecedented step of demonetisation of the high-denomination currency notes in the country which led to severe cash crunch in the economy and has affected the jobs and incomes of millions.
