New government is hopeful of getting the Budget for 2009-10 approved by Parliament by 31st July, Cabinet Minister P Chidambaram said after the first meeting of Union Cabinet in New Delhi.

A decision to convene the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha from 1st June to 9th June was taken at the meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he told ...

New government is hopeful of getting the Budget for 2009-10 approved by Parliament by 31st July, Cabinet Minister P Chidambaram said after the first meeting of Union Cabinet in New Delhi.

A decision to convene the first session of the 15th Lok Sabha from 1st June to 9th June was taken at the meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he told .

"We hope we will be able to pass the Budget by 31st July," he said.(ddn)