{"id":4022,"date":"2023-01-27T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2025-03-26T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:39:24","slug":"what-is-the-halwa-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-halwa-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the \u2018Halwa\u2019 Ceremony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About \u2018Halwa\u2019 Ceremony:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>customary pre-Budget event<\/strong> that <strong>formally flags off the printing of different documents associated with the Budget<\/strong> and marks the <strong>final stage of the Union Budget-preparation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It involves the <strong>preparation of<\/strong> the traditional dessert <strong>&#8216;halwa&#8217; in a massive kadhai (wok)<\/strong> which is then\u00a0<strong> served to the entire staff in the Finance ministry.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>finance minister gives the go-ahead<\/strong> by stirring the kadhai and serving the sweet to officials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It takes place in the basement of the Finance Ministry&#8217;s North Block<\/strong> in Central Delhi, where a <strong>special printing press is located.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>After the &#8216;halwa ceremony&#8217;, officials involved in the Budget-making process are &#8216;locked in&#8217; at the North Block.<\/strong> They are <strong>kept in absolute isolation<\/strong> and completely cut off from the outside world <strong>till the finance minister finally presents the Budget.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>\u201clock-in\u201d<\/strong> which follows the \u2018halwa ceremony\u2019 is observed <strong>to maintain the secrecy of the Budget preparation process.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) When is the Union Budget presented in India?<\/h3>\n<p>The Union Budget of India is presented in Parliament on February 1 by the Finance Minister.\u00a0 The Budget is traditionally presented in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/what-we-know\/union-budget-2023-finance-minister-nirmala-sitharaman-halwa-ceremony-significance-what-is-date-latest-news#read-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Halwa Ceremony Returns As FM Sitharaman Marks Final Stage of Budget Preparation<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halwa ceremony is a customary pre-Budget event that marks final stage of the Union Budget-preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}