00:00Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the common budget on 1st February.
00:09Before that, the annual Halwa Ceremony will take place on 24th January.
00:15This programme will be held in the North Block at 5pm on 24th January in the presence of the Finance Minister.
00:22Before the lock-in process of the officials involved in the budget preparations begins, the traditional Halwa Ceremony is held.
00:31During the pandemic, the Halwa Ceremony was not held in 2021.
00:36This ceremony is a symbol of the beginning of the quarantine period for the officials who prepare the budget in the Finance Ministry.
00:44A few days before the budget is presented, a special ceremony is held in the Finance Ministry, which is called the Halwa Ceremony.
00:51During this time, Halwa is prepared in a big vessel in the kitchen of the Ministry.
00:56The Finance Minister herself serves this Halwa.
00:59After this, this Halwa is given to all the officials involved in the budget preparation.
01:06Before entering the final stage of preparing the budget through the Halwa Ceremony, a celebration of hard work is celebrated.
01:14This is also considered the beginning of the lock-in period.
01:17This period is very important to ensure the privacy and security of the common budget.
01:22After the ceremony, all employees involved in preparing the budget enter such a period where they are kept separate in the Finance Ministry, especially in the North Block.
01:35The reason for keeping the officials in the lock-in period is that no information should leak before being presented to the Parliament.
01:43The mobile phones of these officials are also collected and there is no communication with their families or the outside world.
01:51The lock-in period continues until the budget documents are approved by the Prime Minister and they are ready for printing.
01:59The budget is printed at the base of the North Block. This is a highly secured area.
02:04The Halwa Ceremony is an old tradition of making budgets, but there is no correct information about when it started.
02:11But in 1950, some things about the budget had already leaked.
02:15After that, the importance of this ceremony increased even more.
02:18Instead of printing the budget, the Minto Road was first taken from the Rajpati Bhawan and then from 1980 it was printed at the base of the Finance Ministry.
02:29This time, with the Halwa Ceremony, it is expected that the Union Budget Halwa will be as sweet.
02:35There are many expectations of the budget being presented just before the Delhi elections.
02:40According to the government sources, there will be a focus on three major areas in this budget.
02:45During the budget, the government can give some relief to the middle class this time.
02:51In particular, such people can be given relief whose annual income is between 10 to 15 lakh rupees.
02:57The government hopes that the ability to spend people will increase and the economy will get a boost.
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