After all, why is Halwa ceremony celebrated every time before the presentation of the budget?

HEADLINES TODAY :- The budget session of Parliament will start on 22 July. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on 23 July. This budget session will end on August 12. Earlier on Tuesday, Halwa ceremony took place. In which the Finance Minister distributed halwa with his own hands to all the officials. Let us tell you that the Halwa Ceremony symbolizes the last phase of the budget preparation process.
Apart from Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Secretaries of many ministries including Minister of State Pankaj Chaudhary participated in this Halwa Ceremony held in North Block. On this occasion, officers and employees associated with the budget preparation and compilation process were also present.
Let us tell you that every year a traditional Halwa ceremony is organized before the start of the lock-in process of budget preparation. The Halwa ceremony takes place in North Block and Halwa is prepared in a big kadhai. The Finance Minister formally presides over the 'kadhai' and usually serves halwa to all those involved in the budget making process. This tradition is also a way of acknowledging the hard work of all the officers of the Finance Ministry. The Halwa ceremony marks the beginning of the process of printing all the budget documents before presentation in Parliament. The Halwa Ceremony is an important event as it also marks the beginning of the lockdown in the Finance Ministry. This means that after this no officer is allowed to leave the ministry premises. Each member of the budget team is allowed to go home only after the financial documents are presented in Parliament. Let us tell you that the process of printing the Union Budget has been happening in North Block since 1980.