BUDGET 2020: Halwa Ceremony concluded, officials closed in Finance Ministry for 10 days without mobile-internet
BUDGET 2020: Halwa Ceremony concluded, officials closed in Finance Ministry for 10 days without mobile-internet
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New Delhi: Today, the 'Halwa Ceremony' which has been done before the budget in the Union Finance Ministry has been completed. Today, in addition to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State Anurag Thakur and other senior officials were present in this symbolic ceremony. Halwa has been distributed and now all the officials and employees related to the budget will be engaged in the printing of the general budget of this 2020-21. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the general budget for the second time. Today, along with both senior ministers, secretaries of all departments of the finance ministry, heads of direct tax and indirect tax were also present in this ceremony.

After the completion of the Halwa Ceremony, now all the officials and employees concerned with preparing the budget will go to the office located in the basement of the Ministry of Finance in North Block. All the officers will be present in this basement till the budget is presented on 1 February. No officer and employee will be allowed to go out. Until the Finance Minister presents the budget in the Lok Sabha, these officials cannot even talk to their family over the phone. After this ritual, only very senior officers of the Ministry of Finance are allowed to go to their homes.

Mobile phones of all the officers and employees selected for budget preparations are deposited. For ten days no officer or employee is allowed to talk to his family or relatives. All employees work only on policies and schemes made by the government. No official is also allowed to use social sites and email.

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