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FM Nirmala Sitharaman met financial-capital market stakeholders ahead of Budget 2025
Budget 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held her seventh pre-Budget consultation with financial sector and capital market stakeholders. Despite India's economy growing at 5.4% in Q2 of 2024-25, lower than RBI's 7% forecast, the government is focusing on recovery amid weak consumption and GDP numbers.
Union Budget 2025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday met stakeholders from the financial sector and capital markets as part of her series pre-Budget consultations.
The meeting was also attended by Finance Secretary, DIPAM secretary, and secretaries of Department of Economic Affairs and Department of Financial Services, and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
Todays was her seventh in the pre-budget series of meetings.
The Finance Ministry conducts several pre-budget consultation meetings annually with experts, industry leaders, economists, and state officials. The formal exercise to prepare the annual Budget for the next financial year has already begun.
Sitharaman has so far held a series of meetings with various stakeholders, including with MSMEs, farmers' associations, and economists.
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