SLFP ministers will be awaiting Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake's 2017 budget speech this afternoon to see if their proposals have been incorporated in it.

Karunanayake will deliver the speech at 2 p.m. He insisted that the budget will be a people's friendly budget.

Meanwhile, the SLFP ministers of the government have already handed over their proposals pertaining to the budget to the Finance Minister.