Union Budget for Fiscal Year 2026-27 will be presented on Sunday, February 1, as the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA), under the chairmanship of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, finalised the dates for the budget session.
According to sources, the session will begin on January 28, with President Droupadi Murmu addressing a joint sitting of the Parliament. Next day, i.e. January 29, the Economic Survey will be laid on the tables of both the houses and in two days the Union Budget will be presented. This is the first time in recent years where the Budget will be presented on a Sunday.
With this, government maintains the convention of presenting Budget on first day of February since 2017-18. There have been three instances (2015-16 and 2016-17 and 2025-26) when the Budget has been presented on Saturday. Stock exchanges have already indicated that, if the Budget is to be presented on Sunday, there could be a special trading session.
FY27 Budget will be the ninth successive one presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. She has already achieved the record of presenting the maximum number of successive Budgets after C D Deshmukh (7 budgets). If she presents the Budget for FY28 also, she will equal the record of late Morarji Desai, who presented a total of 10 Budgets across two stints, six between 1959 and 1964, and four between 1967 and 1969.
Among other recent finance ministers, P Chidambaram had presented nine Budgets, while Pranab Mukherjee presented eight Budgets during their respective tenures under different prime ministers.
60th Anniversary of the first sitting
The government will present the Economic Survey 2025-26 on 29 January 2026, and the Union Budget 2026-27 will be tabled on 1 February 2026. Parliament has had sittings on Sundays under special circumstances, such as the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and on May 13, 2012, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of Parliament.
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