“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark,” Sitharaman said just before she began with the Part A of her Budget presentation. Also Read – Budget 2021: Here’s How You Can Download Budget PDF Documents
I borrow the words from Rabindranath Tagore, “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark”. In this spirit, I can’t help but recall the joy that we as a Cricket loving nation felt after Team India’s recent spectacular success in Australia: FM pic.twitter.com/PPiC5RG15D Also Read – Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget Speech: Major Announcement For Health Infra & Vaccines | HIGHLIGHTS
— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2021
“The preparation of this budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before, in view of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country. But what we have endured with Covid-19 to 2020 is Sui generis,” she said.
On Monday, Sitharaman broke the the tradition of carrying a Swadeshi bahi-khata and switched to a tablet. With the Union Budget set to be in paperless form due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Finance Minister was seen carrying a Made in India tablet, kept inside a red-coloured cover with a golden coloured national emblem embossed on it.