Updated On: 05 July, 2019 12:56 PM IST | | mid-day online desk
This is Nirmala Sitharaman's first budget in the second term of the Narendra Modi government. She assured that India will become a three trillion dollar economy in 2019

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Union Budget 2019-20 in the Parliament today. She assured that India will become a three trillion dollar economy in 2019. "The first term of PM Narendra Modi-led NDA govt stood out as a performing govt. Between 2014-2019 he provided a rejuvenated centre-state dynamics, cooperative federalism, GST council and strident commitment to fiscal discipline." Sitharaman is the second woman after Indira Gandhi to hold the post of a Finance Minister.