Pranab presents General Budget for 2009-10

Pranab presents General Budget for 2009-10

The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has started general budget presentation at 11.00 am in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
This is the first general budget of the UPA government's second term.

This is Pranab Mukherjee's fourth Budget. He had presented three earlier Budgets as finance minister in the Indira Gandhi government.

But this would perhaps be his toughest job as he has to fight recessionary pressures and at the same time meet the fiscal deficit reduction targets.

Mukherjee has already stated that the focus of the government would be on aam aadmi with more employment generation schemes on the anvil.

Later Senior Officials of the Ministry of Finance will address a Post Budget Press Conference.