Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2023 on 1 February (Wednesday) at 11 am. This will be Sitharaman’s fifth straight budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1. Union Budget 2023: What can expect common people, homemakers, railway traveller?.
Like the previous two, Union Budget 2023-24 will also be delivered in paperless form. This will be the last full budget of the Modi government ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Union Budget, also comprising the Railway Budget, will be presented by the Finance Minister on Wednesday, February 1.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget in a paperless format this year too. Expressing their ideas and expectations around the budget this year, people have urged the Railways to ensure cleanliness and safety. Passengers upbeat about Vande Bharat trains and Bullet Trains project. The Vande Bharat trains and the Bullet Trains project also attracted a lot of excitement from the passengers.
Railway traveller many believed that Vande Bharat trains ought to run from each capital city in the nation. Another traveller at the Patna Junction Station expressed optimism that the government would announce the Bullet Train project soon and come out with further such initiatives in the years to come.
“The Railways still need to pay a lot of attention to the cleanliness of the trains. Also, the trains that were stopped at the time of Covid should be made operational again,” said Rajan Kumar, another passenger. Meanwhile, regular railway travellers also sought more trains running across the nation.
To make it simpler for them to take outstation exams, students urged that the Railways run separate trains. They claimed that they often have to travel to other cities for competitive or other exams and find it tough to book seats in regular passenger trains. Women passengers said the Railway authorities should strive more to ensure their safety.
Passengers further said the Railway Budget should also focus on ensuring the provision of better food in trains. Meanwhile, homemakers claimed that rising inflation is limiting their household budgets and making it challenging for them to control their spending.
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They claimed that their problems had been made worse by the growing costs of necessities like food and LPG cylinders. It should be mentioned here that the budget document will be accessible via the “Union Budget Mobile App” on the Android and Apple OS platforms following the Finance Minister’s Nirmala Sitharaman Budget 2023 speech in Parliament on February 1.
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