The dates for the presentation of the Union Budget and the Railway Budget were announced on Friday. While the Union Budget will be presented on February 28, the Railway Budget will be present two days earlier on February 26.

The Budget session will last from February 21 to May 10.

The Congress on Wednesday said that a "very promising budget" is on the anvil, indicating that the Union Budget 2013-14 will be replete with populist schemes as also economic reforms. "A very promising budget is going to come. The government is now well in control. Economic steps are the most important thing.... In next year we are going to have many programmes, which are going to have far-reaching consequences.

"...Some immediate steps are to be taken. These are going to be announced in the coming budget," party spokesperson PC Chacko said. Chacko also said that the party is ready to implement the decisions taken by the Jaipur session of the AICC and "at all levels in the party, reorganisation is being done". (PTI)