{"id":349450,"date":"2024-07-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349450"},"modified":"2024-07-23T03:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:05:26","slug":"president-murmus-customary-dahi-cheeni-for-fm-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-murmus-customary-dahi-cheeni-for-fm-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"President Murmu\u2019s customary \u2018dahi-cheeni for FM Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/President-Murmus-customary-\u2018dahi-cheeni-for-FM-Nirmala-Sitharaman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349451\" width=\"353\" height=\"253\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Ahead of presenting the Union Budget in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met President Droupadi Murmu in the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President fed her &#8216;dahi-cheeni&#8217;, a ritual performed by elders in Indian families to bestow good luck before undertaking important tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s Budget is the seventh consecutive Budget for Finance Minister Sitharaman and the Modi government&#8217;s 13th straight Budget since 2014. She also makes history as the first finance minister to present seven consecutive Budget speeches, surpassing former Prime Minister Morarji Desai&#8217;s record of six consecutive Budgets between 1959-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, FM Sitharaman and her team posed for a traditional picture outside the Finance Ministry. She wore an off-white colour saree with a magenta border and displayed the red &#8216;bahi-khata&#8217; tablet with the national emblem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, FM Sitharaman broke the long-standing tradition of a Budget briefcase with a &#8216;bahi khata, &#8216; a red-coloured Indian accounting ledger. In 2021, the Finance Minister presented the Budget in a paperless format, using a &#8216;Made in India&#8217; tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Budget Session began on July 22 and, according to schedule, will end on August 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, the Finance Minister presented the Economic Survey in Parliament. The Survey projects India\u2019s GDP growth rate at 6.5 to 7 per cent for 2024-25 as it sees the economy on a strong wicket. However, achieving a 7 per cent GDP growth rate &#8220;is doable&#8221; for India despite the global environment has become more challenging since the beginning of the year, according to Chief Economic Adviser, V. Anantha Nageswaran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 Ahead of presenting the Union Budget in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met President Droupadi Murmu in the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday. The President fed her &#8216;dahi-cheeni&#8217;, a ritual performed by elders in Indian families to bestow good luck before undertaking important tasks. This year&#8217;s Budget is the seventh consecutive Budget for Finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":349451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[18282,15750,16847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349452,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349450\/revisions\/349452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}