PM Narendra Modi to hold pre-budget meeting with Niti Aayog

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Friday hold a pre-budget meeting with more than two dozen economists and sector experts at NITI Aayog to seek their view on measures to push up economic growth.

Top union ministers are also expected to attend the meeting to get a sense of necessary policy measures in their respective sectors to propel growth.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2023-24 in the Parliament on February 1.


Besides Sitharaman, the ministers may include home minister Amit Shah, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari and commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, among others.

Some of the top economists and experts who are likely to be present at the meeting include Govinda Rao, DK Joshi, Ravindra Dholakia, Sugata Marjit, Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Samiran Chakraborty, Pulok Ghosh, Vikram Mehta and Vinayak Chatterjee.

ET, however, does not have an official confirmation on the names of the attendees.