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India TodayFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to present the Union Budget 2021-22 at 11 am on Monday. You can tune-in to India Today LIVE TV to watch Nirmala Sitharaman's speech. As India emerges from the Covid-19 crisis, the ninth budget under the Narendra Modi government, including an interim one, is widely expected to focus on boosting spending on job creation and rural development, generous allocations for development schemes, putting more money in the hands of the average taxpayer and easing rules to attract foreign investments. Nirmala Sitharaman, who had in her first budget in 2019 replaced leather briefcase that had been for decades used for carrying budget documents with a traditional red cloth 'bahi-khata', had earlier this month stated that the budget for the fiscal year beginning April will be "like never before".