FM Arun Jaitley seats pre-spending meeting in Delhi

New Delhi, Jan. 18 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday led the pre-budget meeting with finance ministers of the considerable number of states and Union Territories here.

In the pre-budget consultations, Jaitley will hear the state ministers expectations from the Union Budget.

The Union Budget, the last one amid this residency of the Bharatiya Janata Party-drove National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, will be introduced on February 1.

The spending session will start on January 29.

The fifth spending comes only a year in front of the seventeenth general race.