The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) on Tuesday recommended holding the Budget Session from 31 January, where the government is likely to table the Economy Survey followed by the Union Budget on 1 February.
The CCPA, headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, met in New Delhi and made these recommendations to President Pranab Mukherjee. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also attended the meeting.
In a first, the government has decided to present the Budget on 1 February instead of the last day of the month as part of an overhaul that also includes the scrapping of a separate railway budget.
The first part of the Budget Session will run till 9 February.
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