For Budget 2018, FM Arun Jaitely skip WEF 2018 summit at Davos

Jaitley will present the Union Budget, the fifth and final one of the current the government, on February 1

 Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was scheduled to be one of the key speakers at the India-specific sessions at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, but he will now not be travelling to the Swiss town. A finance ministry source said the change in plan was because the FM was needed in New Delhi to devote time to the Budget.

Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jaitley was to be one of the six Union ministers scheduled to attend the WEF. The FM was earlier scheduled to be in Davos on January 24 to take part in the key “country