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New Delhi (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will give final touches to the Budget 2009-10 at Finance Ministers Chamber here today.

Mukherjee had earlier presented three budgets during the Indira Gandhi Government.

Pranab to give final touches to Budget 2009-10

As part of the pre-budget exercise, Mukherjee held parleys with various stakeholders, state finance ministers, industrialist groups, leading economists, trade unionists and top officials of various financial institutions.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had presented an interim budget for the 2009-10 (April/March) in February ahead of the general elections in April and May.

In its five budgets since 2004, the Congress party-led coalition has raised spending on health, education and rural employment. (ANI)