Finance Ministry seeks suggestions from Twitterati on focus of Budget 2017

Union Budget for FY18 would be presented on Feb 1

With less than a month remaining for budget presentation, Finance Ministry on Friday invited suggestions from Twitterati on what should be the focus of the Budget for 2017-18 to be unveiled on February 1.

People can exercise their voting option on the official twitter handle of the Ministry of Finance, which tweeted:

Although voting would remain open for a week, the initial pattern suggested netizen's preference for agriculture, followed closely by infrastructure. Manufacturing was the third in preference followed by IT and Services.

In November 2016, the Finance Ministry had invited suggestions from the public on myGov portal for Budget 2017-18 in order to encourage public participation and bring in greater transparency.

Government has decided to present the Budget for FY 2017-18 on February 1, instead of the usual practice of unveiling it on the last working day of February. 

This has been done so that all allocations are available before the start of financial year from April 1. It has also decided to merge the Rail Budget with the Union Budget.