It has been billed as a Budget like never before, triggering expectations that the government will open the purse strings to nurse the Covid-hit economy back onto a robust growth trajectory with a massive fiscal push.
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her deputy Anurag Thakur along with key members of the Budget team on Sunday — (left to right) CBDT chairman P C Mody, expenditure secretary T V Somanathan, financial services secretary Debasish Panda, finance secretary A B Pandey, economic affairs secretary Tarun Bajaj, Dipam secretary Tuhin Pandey, chief economic adviser K V Subramanian and CBIC chairman M Ajit Kumar.