Union Budget 2026 Event
23 February 2026, Monday
23 February 2026, Monday
11:00 AM
01:00 PM
School of Management & UniBiz Club, IILM University, Gurugram
School of Management & UniBiz Club
IILM University, Gurugram
The Budget Event — titled “Union Budget 2026: Growth, Inclusion, and Innovation — Is India Getting the Balance Right?” — assembled a panel of four distinguished experts from consulting, public policy, financial services, and industry to provide students with multi-dimensional, expert-informed analysis of the Union Budget 2026-27, reflecting IILM’s commitment to connecting classroom learning with live policy developments. Ms. Prerna Joshi, a 2012-batch IES officer currently serving as Joint Secretary at the Central Information Commission — a former Director in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and contributor to four consecutive editions of India’s Economic Survey — brought unparalleled public policy insight to the discussion, providing students with an authoritative insider perspective on how Union Budgets are constructed and evaluated from a government standpoint. Mr. Jaideep Ghosh — with a career spanning Partner & COO at KPMG India, leadership roles at IBM and PwC, and academic formation at Columbia Business School, IIM Lucknow, Harvard Business School, and the University of Oxford — represented the Big 4 consulting and strategic advisory perspective, illustrating how the budget’s provisions are analysed and acted upon by India’s leading advisory institutions. Ms. Timsi Menon (VP & Regional Manager, SBI Life Insurance; ISB & IIM alumna) and Dr. Shailendra Vyas (Director General, Federation of Indian Industry; applying genomics integrated with AI and deep learning in healthcare) contributed the financial services and industry federation perspectives respectively, ensuring that the panel addressed budget implications across private sector financial services, life insurance, biotechnology, and industrial policy simultaneously. The Budget Quiz organised by UniBiz Club — with six teams competing across five rounds, two winning cash prizes and certificates — transformed the academic discussion into an active learning exercise, developing students’ budget literacy through competitive knowledge application.
Students gained multi-dimensional understanding of the Union Budget 2026-27 through expert analysis from consulting, public policy, financial services, and industry perspectives — developing the ability to evaluate a complex fiscal document from multiple professional standpoints simultaneously. Students engaged directly with Ms. Prerna Joshi, a serving IES officer who contributed to four consecutive Economic Survey editions, gaining a rare insider perspective on the government’s economic reasoning, policy priorities, and the institutional processes behind budget formulation. The Budget Quiz organised by UniBiz Club — with six competing teams across five rounds — actively tested and reinforced students’ budget literacy through competitive knowledge application, translating passive listening into active analytical engagement. The welcome address by Dr. Sunita Dwivedi, Dean (MBA Programme), and the interactive Q&A session enabled students to engage directly with faculty leadership and panel experts on questions arising from the budget’s provisions for growth, inclusion, and innovation. The event successfully positioned the Union Budget not merely as a government document but as a live case study in economic policy, fiscal strategy, and national development priority-setting — directly relevant to students in management education pursuing careers in finance, consulting, policy, and industry leadership.