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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the interim Budget 2024-25 in a paperless format, using a digital tablet instead of a traditional briefcase. This continues her tradition of using a tablet wrapped in a bahi-khata style pouch to carry the Budget documents. She poses for a picture with her team outside her office before heading to meet the President. Sitharaman s Budget for FY2024-25 is the Modi government s 12th straight Budget since 2014.
Nirmala Sitharaman: Sitharaman, India s first full-time woman Finance Minister, had in July 2019 ditched the colonial legacy of a Budget briefcase for the traditional bahi-khata to carry Union Budget papers. She used the same in the following year, and in a pandemic-hit 2021, she swapped traditional papers with a digital tablet for carrying her speech and other Budget documents.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday again took a digital tablet wrapped in a traditional 'bahi-khata' style pouch as she headed for Parliament to present the interim Budget 2024-25 in a paperless format just like the previous three years. India News | Sitharaman Takes Tablet in Red Pouch to Parliament to Present Paperless Budget.