Budget 2017 ‘halwa’ ceremony: All you need to know about it 4 Photos . Updated: 20 Jan 2017, 02:37 PM IST Livemint 'Halwa' ceremony marks the beginning of the printing of documents for the Union Budget 2017-18. In images 1/4Finance minister Arun Jaitley at the ‘halwa’ ceremony. Photo: PTI 2/4The significance of the sweet dish is that after it is served, a large number of officials and support staff, who are directly associated with the budget and the printing process, are required to stay at the ministry and remain cut off from their families till it is presented. Photo: PTI 3/4Budget 2017, which will be the third full-fledged budget of the present NDA government, is scheduled to be unveiled in Parliament on 1 February. Photo: PTI 4/4The first budget of Independent India was presented by R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947. Photo: PTI