1 / 5Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has arrived for the Budget 2023-24 presentation at the Parliament House and, this time, re-iterating her love for simple yet elegant handloom sarees, has donned a red silk saree with a black and gold border detailing. Keeping it minimalist, she paired it with a gold pendant.2 / 5Nirmala Sitharaman also carried the modern ‘Bahi-Khata‘ (ledger) tablet in a traditional pouch made of red cloth with the Government of India’s logo, similar to what she carried last year.3 / 5Before reaching Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called on President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.4 / 5For the first time in 2021, a completely paperless digital budget was presented in Parliament in the wake of the Corona pandemic. The tradition of printing a copy of the budget has been discontinued.5 / 5Nirmala Sitharaman ended the tradition from the British era as soon as she took over as finance minister. Until 2019, the budget was presented in a briefcase or a suitcase. Nirmala Sitharaman came to Parliament in 2019 with budget papers in a red cloth bag instead of a briefcase.