The Finance Ministry will start its pre-Budget work from October 14 onwards, according to a circular it sent to all Ministries and Departments.
The other Ministries will have to prepare and send their budgets, expenditure trends, and non-tax revenue estimates for 2020-21 by October 9 to the Finance Ministry. Following this, the Finance Ministry will hold separate meetings with all the other Ministries, from October 14 to the first week of November.
The meetings of the Ministries and Departments with the Expenditure Secretary will involve discussions on the total funds required for various programmes and schemes, along with receipts of the Departments.
All the Ministries and Departments will also be required to submit details of all the autonomous bodies for which a dedicated corpus fund has been created, indicating the purpose, accumulated balances as on March 31, 2019, annual expenditure for the last three years, and allocations made during the current financial year.
