Covid-19 pandemic effect: Budget documents will not be printed this year

Risk factor: Printing requires staff to be cooped up in North Block for a fortnight

For the first time since the Union Budget of independent India was first presented on November 26, 1947, the Budget documents will not be printed. No trucks loaded with Budget papers, a familiar sight at Parliament on Budget Day, will be seen parked outside the building this time round.
 

The printing of the crucial documents is yet another casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic.
 

Every year, the documents are printed by the finance ministry’s in-house printing press. This year, however, both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats have been able to convince the members of Parliament (MPs) to make do