Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Budget 2022-23 in a paperless format just like last year. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was seen carrying a tablet kept inside a red coloured cover with a golden coloured national emblem embossed on it instead of the briefcase or 'bahi khata'.

In a historic move, the Union Budget 2021 was presented in a digital format for the first time to promote the Government of India's (GoI) Digital India flagship programme. This is being seen as an attempt to go green and also to minimise physical contact amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Sitharaman in 2019, ditched the longstanding tradition of carrying a briefcase and went 'Swadeshi' to replaced the briefcase with the traditional 'bahi khata' saying that the Modi-government was not a 'suitcase-carrying government.'