Budget 2025 Expectations Live Updates: Insurance industry awaits GST waiver on health cover, annuity plans

Union Budget 2025 Expectations Live Updates: Here’s everything you need to know about the expectations for Union Budget, date and time of the budget presentation, whether stock market is open on that day and more.

Union Budget 2025: Date & Time

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the second budget of the Modi 3.0 Government on February 1, 2025 at 11 AM in the Parliament. This would be her 8th consecutive budget presentation. 

Union Budget 2025: Where to watch

You can watch the live stream of the event in channels like Sansad TV, Doordarshan in addition to most news channels and their respective YouTube channels which would stream it. Here is an overview of the History of Indian Union Budget.

Union Budget 2025: Stock Market open on Saturday, February 1, 2025 

The stock markets are usually closed on Saturdays. Despite February 1st falling on a Saturday, there is a special trading session on that day coinciding with the budget. So, businessline would run parallel lives, one for the Union Budget and one for the stock Market. 

Union Budget 2025-26 Expectations:

The Union Budget is one of the most anticipated events every year for people across all walks of life. Be it the general public, government employees, private employees, corporate heads, business owners; everyone tunes wants to know what is in the budget for them or in some cases, what might affect them. Going by that norm, this year is no different either. 

Despite being the second budget of the Modi Government’s third tenure, this is could theoretically be described as the first full fledged budget for this tenure as 2024 was the year of general elections which had an interim budget in February 2024 for the Financial Year 2024-25 before heading into the elections starting in April 2024. After the results were declared on June 4, another budget session was held on July 2024 which was meant to be a full fledged budget but that mostly built on what was proposed earlier in the interim budget, for the rest of the financial year. 

With the GDP growth hitting a seven-quarter low of 5.4% in Q2 FY25, there are more expectations on the upcoming Union Budget on February 1, as well as the next RBI MPC meet on February 7. Moreover, the Economic Survey 2024-25 is expected to be released on January 31 which also holds significance given the GDP’s recent performance. With this backdrop, here are the expectations for the Union Budget for the Financial Year 2025-26 which begins on April 1, 2025 and ends on March 31, 2026.

Published on January 28, 2025