President Ram Nath Kovind is addressing the joint sitting of the Parliament, at the beginning of the Budget Session 2020, which has commenced today.The session is scheduled to extend till April 3; it will go into recess on February 11 and resume on March 2. The Union Budget 2020 will be tabled in Parliament on Saturday, February 1, by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Sitharaman will today table the Economic Survey 2019-20 ( to read why is it important), which is released by Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian. The Survey is a report the government presents on the state of the economy in the past one year, the key challenges it anticipates, and their possible solutions.