<p>New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to address the Reserve Bank of India's central board on February 12 and highlight key points of the interim Union Budget.</p>.<p>Sitharaman will present the sixth Budget on February 1, where she will outline the roadmap for 2024-25.</p>.<p>In the post-budget meeting, the finance minister will address the board members and talk about announcements made in the interim Budget 2024-25.</p>.<p>The meeting is being held shortly after the Budget session, as well as the last session of the 17th Lok Sabha, which comes to an end on February 9.</p>.Sitharaman may outline plans for GST 2.0 in Budget, say experts.<p>It is customary for the finance minister to address the Reserve Bank of India board after the Budget.</p>.<p>Before the finance minister's address, the RBI will unveil its last bi-monthly monetary policy review on February 8.</p>.<p>She will equal the record of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai when she presents her sixth straight Budget on February 1.</p>.<p>Sitharaman, the first full-time women finance minister of the country, has presented five full budgets since July 2019 and will present an interim or vote-on-account budget this week.</p>.<p>With the presentation of the interim Budget on February 1, she will surpass the records of her predecessors like Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha, who had presented five budgets in a row.</p>.<p>Desai, as finance minister, had presented five annual Budgets and one interim Budget between 1959 and 1964.</p>.<p>The interim Budget 2024-25 will be a vote-on-account that will give the government authority to spend certain sums of money till a new government comes to office after the April-May general elections.</p>.<p>As the general elections are due, Sitharaman's interim Budget may not contain any major policy changes. </p>
<p>New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to address the Reserve Bank of India's central board on February 12 and highlight key points of the interim Union Budget.</p>.<p>Sitharaman will present the sixth Budget on February 1, where she will outline the roadmap for 2024-25.</p>.<p>In the post-budget meeting, the finance minister will address the board members and talk about announcements made in the interim Budget 2024-25.</p>.<p>The meeting is being held shortly after the Budget session, as well as the last session of the 17th Lok Sabha, which comes to an end on February 9.</p>.Sitharaman may outline plans for GST 2.0 in Budget, say experts.<p>It is customary for the finance minister to address the Reserve Bank of India board after the Budget.</p>.<p>Before the finance minister's address, the RBI will unveil its last bi-monthly monetary policy review on February 8.</p>.<p>She will equal the record of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai when she presents her sixth straight Budget on February 1.</p>.<p>Sitharaman, the first full-time women finance minister of the country, has presented five full budgets since July 2019 and will present an interim or vote-on-account budget this week.</p>.<p>With the presentation of the interim Budget on February 1, she will surpass the records of her predecessors like Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha, who had presented five budgets in a row.</p>.<p>Desai, as finance minister, had presented five annual Budgets and one interim Budget between 1959 and 1964.</p>.<p>The interim Budget 2024-25 will be a vote-on-account that will give the government authority to spend certain sums of money till a new government comes to office after the April-May general elections.</p>.<p>As the general elections are due, Sitharaman's interim Budget may not contain any major policy changes. </p>