Budget 2023: FM Nirmala Sitharaman takes tablet in red pouch to Parliament

Budget 2023: With the tablet carefully kept inside a red cover with a golden-coloured national emblem on, FM Nirmala Sitharaman went to the Parliament after meeting President Droupadi Murmu

Ahead of the Union Budget 2023, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday took a digital tablet wrapped in a traditional "bahi-khata" style pouch to the Parliament to present the annual financial statement in a paperless format. The budget is being presented in the paperless form for the past two years.

With the tablet carefully kept inside a red cover with a golden-coloured national emblem embossed on it instead of the briefcase, she went to the Parliament after meeting President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Sitharaman, India's first full-time woman Finance Minister, had in July 2019 ditched the colonial legacy of