Amid a third wave of covid and emerging concerns over the Omicron variant threat on India's GDP growth, FInance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Budget on February 1. This will be the second time that a paperless budget will be presented and the famous Halwa ceremony also stands cancelled in the wake of COVID. President Ram Nath Kovind will address both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as the Budget session kicks off in the Parliament on January 31. With just a few days left for the most important event on the Indian financial calendar, Hindustan Times Editor-In-Chief, Sukumar Ranganathan, decodes what's on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's mind and discusses with our Senior Editor Aditi Prasad how jobs and inflation are plaguing the economy at this moment. Watch for more details.
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