"It will be next week after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from his visit," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
The outcome budget was earlier scheduled to be unveiled in the first week of this month. The Prime Minister is scheduled to come back to India on July 9 after attending the G-8 summit being held in Scotland.
The ministries have already sent their outcomes and the finance ministry is compiling them, Chidambaram had said last month.
The outcome budget, to be presented for the first time, will discipline various ministries in their spending by ensuring that they do not stagger it towards the last quarter of the fiscal.
Chidambaram had earlier said the government has strict rules stipulating that 66 per cent of the budgeted expenditure has to be spent in the first three quarters and not more than 33 per cent in the last quarter.
This would ensure that various ministries do not bunch expenditure towards last part of the financial year in order to meet the budgeted expenditure.
Many a time, expenditure was incurred for the sake of it and there were no means of gauging whether it translated into physical targets.