FM Sitharaman 2-day Mumbai visit: Meeting with Income Tax Department officials, PSU banks' annual performance review and more - Check full programme and agenda here

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be visiting Mumbai, the financial capital for two days starting on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, to meet key stakeholders.

The finance minister will begin the day with a meeting with senior officials of the Income Tax department at Bandra Kurla Complex at 11:30 am.

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She will then be meeting with senior GST and Customs officials at 2 pm, according to a tweet from her office. Sitharaman will also have an interaction with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Hotel Taj Lands End at 5 pm.

Programme details of Smt @nsitharaman's visit to Mumbai, Maharashtra on August 24-25, 2021. pic.twitter.com/jQrFykY0sW

— NSitharamanOffice (@nsitharamanoffc) August 23, 2021

This is the first visit by the finance minister since the onset of the pandemic and comes at a time when a greater focus is on the government for aiding recovery because high inflation constrains the RBI, as per a report by PTI.

On the second day of the visit that is on Wednesday, August 25, 2021, Sitharaman will be undertaking an annual performance review of public sector banks at Bandra Kurla Complex at 10:15 am, as per the information provided by Sitharaman's office.

This will be followed with an event organised by Indian Banks Association (IBA) to launch "Enhanced Access and Service Excellence" (EASE) 4.0 at the same venue at 12 pm.

The minister is also scheduled to address a press conference with select journalists on Wednesday afternoon, officials said, as per a PTI report.

Sitharaman on Monday announced a Rs 6 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) that will look to unlock value in infrastructure assets across sectors ranging from power to road and railways. Projects have been identified across sectors, with roads, railways and power being the top segments.