Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget 2024 on July 23. Yesterday, Sitharaman participated in the Halwa ceremony, which marks the final stage of budget preparation and precedes the lock-in process for officials involved in the budget. The ed-tech sector has high expectations from the budget 2024, including hopes for reduced GST, improved digital infrastructure, and more favourable policies. Prateek Maheshwari, co-founder of PhysicsWallah and chair of the India EdTech Consortium (IEC), has advocated for a complete exemption of GST on all educational expenses for students…