How to watch Budget Speech live stream

The Union Budget 2023-24 will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, starting at 11 am in the Parliament. This will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's last full budget before the next general election scheduled for 2024. The Union Budget 2023 will be Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget speech. This time, it will be presented in a paperless form like the Budget 2021 and 2022. Previously, Sitharaman used a briefcase to present her budget, which was later replaced by the “Bahi Khata” in 2019. Later on, she switched to reading the budget from a tablet.

Viewers can watch the Budget session live on the Indian government’s official site for Union budget - indiabudget.gov.in. It will also be live telecasted on Doordarshan, Sansad Tv and other news channels. There will also be a live telecast of the Budget on Press Information Bureau (PIB), Doordarshan and Sansad TV’s YouTube channels. In case you are unable to watch the sessions live, you can check their Twitter handles for live updates.

The Union Budget will be presented by Finance Minister Sitharaman from 11 am on February 1 and can likely last between an hour and two. The previous year, Niramala Sitharaman delivered the Union Budget speech for almost 92 minutes, which marked her shortest speech, compared to her speech of about 2 hours and 40 minutes, which became the longest Budget speech in India’s history.


After the conclusion of the budget speech by Niramala Sitharaman , the Union Budget 2023 documents will be accessible on the Union Budget mobile application. The application is available on the Google PlayStore and App Store.

FAQs

Q1.Where can we watch the Union Budget 2023 live?
Viewers can watch the Budget session live on the Indian government’s official site for Union budget - indiabudget.gov.in. It will also be live telecasted on Doordarshan, Sansad Tv and other news channels.

Q2.Who was the first Finance Minister of India?
India’s first Finance Minister was Shanmukham Chetty.