The Finance Ministry has sought inputs from different Central ministries for Arun Jaitley’s Budget speech, which would be the last budget of the current BJP-led NDA government before the 2019 general polls. Last month, the Ministry began the budgetary exercise. During the process, meetings were held with ministries of steel, power, and housing and urban development, among others, to finalise revised expenditure for the current fiscal and projections for the next financial year. In view of the upcoming general elections, the government is likely to come out with an interim budget, also referred to as vote-on-account.