According to the budget documents, the state’s public debt has marginally risen to 15.34 per cent of the state GDP to Rs 3,77,962 crore in the current financial year. Gujarat’s current GSDP stands at Rs 24 lakh crore.
Interim Budget 2024: Sitharaman equaled the record of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai, who as finance minister, presented five annual budgets and one interim budget between 1959 and 1964. This will be her sixth Budget as the Finance Minister and last in the second term of the Modi government. The interim budget will take care of the financial needs of the intervening period until a government is formed after the Lok Sabha polls.
When Finance Minister CD Deshmukh started the practice of printing the Budget documents in both Hindi and English during the 1955–56 fiscal year, the old rules changed.