Ever wondered how is country's budget prepared? Budget-1 Fact: there is no such word as budget in our Indian constitution Acc to Article 112 of the Indian constitution it is known as an “Annual Financial statement” In our case though the budget is announced on the 1st of Feb every year, its preparation starts from the Aug-Sep month of the preceding year, the ministries (sub-division of Ministry of Finance) provide a document (budget circular)to the state finance ministers, investors, local ministry etc. This document has (i) Budget estimates (BE) of receipts and expenditure in respect of current and ensuing financial year(25-26) (ii) For the current year (24-25)through Revised Estimates (RE); and (iii) Actuals of the year preceding the current year (23-24) , these meetings and questions go on for at least a month, later the members of the finance minister asses if the amount demeaned by various states is feasible? (check out the next post)
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