Union Budget 2025: Data

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, holds a digital tablet enclosed in a traditional ‘bahi-khata’ style pouch containing the paperless ‘Union Budget 2025-26’, on February 1, 2025.
| Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her eighth consecutive Budget on Saturday (February 1, 2025).

Ms. Sitharaman announced a major rejig of tax slabs, providing long-awaited relief to the middle class. In the run up to the Assembly election in Delhi, a city that often votes with its wallet, this is a timely intervention as far as the BJP is concerned.

Here is a collection of Data stories from The Hindu on Union Budget 2025.