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The budget session of Parliament will be held from January 28 to April 2, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said .
The budget session begins with the address of President Droupadi Murmu to the joint session of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the Lok Sabha chamber.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Economic Survey and present the general Budget.
However, Rijiju did not share details on the date of the presentation of the Budget. February 1, which has been fixed as the Budget Day, falls on a Sunday this year.
Parliament will be in recess from February 13 till March 9.
“On the recommendation of the Govt of India, Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu ji has approved the summoning of both the Houses of Parliament for the Budget Session 2026.
“The Session will commence on 28 January 2026 and continue till 2 April 2026,” Rijiju said in a post on X.
“The first phase concludes on 13 February 2026, with Parliament reassembling on 9 March 2026, a vital step towards meaningful debate and people-centric governance,” Rijiju said.
The Union Budget comes amidst reports, where the Indian economy is expected to grow by 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal, maintaining its status as the world’s fastest-growing major economy despite punitive US tariffs and geopolitical tensions.
The First Advance Estimates released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Wednesday put GDP growth in 2025-26 (April 2025 to March 2026 fiscal year) at better than 7.3 per cent forecast by the RBI and the government’s initial projection of 6.3-6.8 per cent.
The economy had grown at 6.5 per cent in the previous fiscal.
The better-than-expected showing comes on the back of resilience shown by the economy despite the United States imposing punitive tariffs of 50 per cent on Indian goods, escalating trade tensions and threatening to disrupt key export sectors.
