Who all are in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget team this year? Know here
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to present her record ninth consecutive Union Budget this year.
Budget 2026: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget 2026 for the ninth consecutive time on February 1, which falls on a Sunday this year. The Minister works with a team of officials with experience and new faces. He added that there may not be a finance secretary this year and Economic Affairs Minister (EA) Anuradha Thakur will coordinate the exercise, TOI reported.
Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget team
- Only four members from the last budget team: CBDT chief Ravi Agrawal, DIPAM secretary Arunish Chawla, financial services secretary M Nagaraju and chief economic advisor V Anantha Nageswaran.
- Three key secretaries: V Vualnam (expenditure), Arvind Shrivastava (revenue) and Thakur (economic affairs) took over their current posts this summer.
- Public enterprises secretary K Moses Chelai is the senior-most secretary of the departments that are part of Sitharaman’s team. But he has little to do with his department’s budget work.
- Vivek Chaturvedi takes over as chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) in December 2025
- Vyasan R, joint secretary in-charge of the budget department, also took up his current post a few months ago.
Budget Session 2026
The Budget session of Parliament will be held from 28 January to 2 April. The session will begin with Speaker Droupadi Murmu’s address to the joint session of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in the Lok Sabha chamber. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju did not share other details about the Budget session. Parliament will be in recess from February 13 to March 9.
