their arrival in india without waiting for the mandatory 180 days to provide nris seamless access to indian equities nri portfolio investment route to be merged with foreign portfolio investment routebahikhata sitharaman departed from the colonial practice of bringing the budget documents in a leather briefcase and instead switched to a fourfold redcotton cloth called a bahikhata this is the 89th union budget which is the financial statement of the government detailing its revenue and expenditure in the past as well as estimated spending and projections for the coming yearwatch union budget 2019 highlights from finance minister nirmala sitharamans speech