FM Sitharaman likely to begin pre-Budget talks from third week of November

FM Nirmala Sitharaman and senior officials will hold eight meetings in all with all stakeholders

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to begin her pre-Budget consultations with stakeholders from the third week of November.

Sitharaman and senior officials will hold eight meetings with the representatives of agriculture and agro processing Industry, industry bodies, infrastructure and climate change, financial sector and capital markets, services and trade, social sector, trade union & labour organisations and economists, and state finance ministers.

“We are finalising the dates and invitations will be sent out soon,” a senior government official told Business Standard.

According to sources, seven of the meetings will be held in late November or early December, in the