The India Today Business Today budget roundtable, scheduled for February 6, 2023, will include a star studded lineup of federal ministers, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The customary Budget day coverage, a yearly high interest event for television stations, was followed by this round table. On 1 February , when FM delivered the first amritkaal budget to the legislature, a trio of anchors Rahul Kanwal, Udayan Mukherjee and Rajdeep Sardesai presented a rapt post budget discussion. With over 143k average concurrent users on the India Today YouTube channel alone, our budget-day coverage made a blockbuster online debut.
The round table includes other ministerial colleagues, Secretaries, analysts and Indian industry doyens in addition to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who has the distinction of delivering five union budgets in a row and is likely to elaborate on her first of the Amritkaal budget.
Senior union ministers who will also address the nation from the podium include Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal, will all share their perspectives on the topic of the effective model for growth in times of global recession.
In order to present a vibrant and interesting session, BT Editors Sourav Majumdar, Siddharth Zarabi, Udayan Mukherjee, Aabha Bakaya, News Director of India Today and Aaj Tak, and Executive Director of Business Today, Rahul Kanwal, will demonstrate their distinctive anchoring approaches.
Details of the other sessions: A discussion on the Budget and the 'Politics of an Election' will feature dynamic speakers BJP MP Jayant Sinha and Congress National Spokesperson and social media chairperson Supriya Shinate, for the top tax consultants will discuss 'Taxation: Hits and Misses' including senior tax adviser Ved Jain, Deloitte APAC tax head Neeru Ahuja, Price Waterhouse Cooper partner Sanjay Tolia, Partner, EY India TMT tax leader Vishal Malhotra
While Central Board of Direct Taxes chairman Nitin Gupta, will take the audience through ‘The Long & Short of Taxation’, corporate leaders who will be debating the agenda ‘Push for Industrial Growth’ includes Feedback Infra chairman Parvesh Minocha, Lemon Tree Hotels, CMD Patanjali Keswani, HDFC Mutual Fund MD, CEO Navneet Munot, Snapdeal, CEO Kunal Bahl, Moglix Founder, CEORahul Garg, Max Life Insurance MD and CEO Prashant Tripathi.
A discussion with ‘The Budget Makers’ will feature Finance secretary T.Y. Somanathan, Department of revenue secretary Sanjay Malhotra, Department of economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth and Department of investment and public asset management secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey.
