Budget 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds pre-budget meeting with health, education sector experts

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman convened the sixth pre fund gathering with experts and representatives from the wellness and acquisition sectors connected Monday (December 30) successful Delhi, up of the adjacent Union Budget 2025-26.

The gathering was besides attended by Finance Secretary and Secretary, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM); and Secretaries of Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; School Education and Literacy; and Health Research; and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.

Tata Memorial Centre Mumbai Director Kailash Sharma; Public Health Specialist and Epidemiologist Dr Atul Kotwal; National Board of Examinations President Dr Abhijat Sheth; St Johns National Academy of Health Sciences Professor Dr Hari Mohan; Shri Vishwakarma Skill University Haryana Vice Chancellor Prof Raj Nehru; Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA) Founder and CEO Ramya Venkataraman; Akhil Bhartiya Rasthriya Shaikshik Mahasangh General Secretary Prof Geeta Bhatt; ABVP National Organising Secretary Ashish Chauhan, among others, were who attended the consultation meeting.

In the meeting, the pursuing points were discussed:

• Demand to trim import work connected machines and medicines utilized successful crab treatment.
• Tata Memorial Hospital Director Kailash Sharma demanded simplification successful work connected LINAC (linac, oregon linear accelerator, is simply a instrumentality that uses energy to make high-energy beams of electrons oregon X-rays).
• Demand to summation expenditure connected education.
• Issues of simple kid care, research, vocational grooming were besides discussed successful the meeting.

Earlier connected Monday, Sitharaman, successful a abstracted meeting, met representatives from assorted manufacture bodies. The manufacture bodies enactment guardant a bouquet of suggestions earlier the government.

The Finance Ministry conducts respective pre-budget consultation meetings annually with experts, manufacture leaders, economists, and authorities officials. The ceremonial workout to hole the yearly Budget for the adjacent fiscal twelvemonth has already begun.

Sitharaman has truthful acold held a bid of meetings with assorted stakeholders, including with MSMEs, farmers' associations, and economists.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi besides interacted with a radical of eminent economists and thought leaders successful mentation for the Union Budget 2025-26 astatine the NITI Aayog premises past week.
As is the convention, the Budget for 2025-26 volition beryllium tabled connected February 1, 2025.

The 2025-26 Budget volition people Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's eighth. All eyes volition beryllium connected the cardinal announcements and the government's forward-looking economical guidance for the remainder of the Modi 3.0 tenure. 

With inputs from agencies