Watch Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman live presenting Budget 2025 in the Lok Sabha at 11 am today (February 1). Her eighth consecutive budget comes with slowing GDP growth, persistent inflation, weakening rupee, global uncertainties, and fiscal constraints in the backdrop.

The Economic Survey 2025, tabled in the Parliament a day earlier, pushed for deregulation on one hand to revive the investor’s spirit, and on the other hand, chief economic advisor V Anantha Nageswaran implored the ‘enlightened self interest’ of corporations to pay employees better and create better working conditions

, all in an effort to boost consumption, which contributes over 60% to India’s gross domestic product (GDP).

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