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Union Budget to Be Tabled on July 6, Railway Budget on July 3
The central government will present the budget for current year 2009-10 on July 6, three days after the tabling of Railway budget on July 3, as per the decision taken early Monday before PM Manmohan Singh’s departure for the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, said an official.
A senior official in railways ministry told that the decision would be announced later in the day.
“The date was decided early Monday morning before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to leave for Yekaterinburg to attend the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summits,” the official said.