To encourage public
participation in the budgetary process, Minister of Finance
and Company Affairs, Shri Jaswant Singh has decided to make
himself available to the public to provide clarification and
answers to their queries through email to finmin@finance.nic.in.
Queries or request for clarification on the Union Budget 2003
could be submitted through http://indiabudget.nic.in.
The Ministry of Finance and Company Affairs has made arrangements
to react to such queries by posting the replies on the above
website.
Over 200 email
messages have already been received by the Minister since the
presentation of the Budget and answers to various queries have
been posted on the website. The Ministry welcomes the public
to actively participate in this interactive process.
Agencies which
have received queries from the public regarding the Budget are
also requested to send them to the above email address to enable
the Minister to respond.
