Union Budget is an Android application developed by the Indian National Informatics Center for the presentation of financial documents. The system is making budget papers open to members of the Parliament as well as the general public.
Public interest
The Department of Economic Affairs is releasing the yearly data in one place for the convenience of the audience and stakeholders. Here, you can find the Finance Ministers speech on the budget. The app is to view in English or Hindi modes.
The initiative is providing combined 14 Union Budget papers delivered in eco friendly digital form. Annual financial statement, demands for grants and economic bill are mandated by the Indian constitution.
There are also the macroeconomic framework statement and medium term policy strategy. These documents are prescribed under the provisions of the fiscal responsibility and budget management act.
The rest of the reports are informational comments supporting the mandated documents in a user friendly form with measurable indicators accommodated for references.
For managing your own money, you may create budgets yourself with modern tools like the Mvelopes app.
Features
- narrative and user friendly format suited for quick contextual references;
- monitoring framework with measurable indicators of outcomes;
- the app is free to download;
- compatible with current Android versions.