Shimla, Feb 4: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh will present the state budget on March 10, an official confirmed on Saturday.

The budget session will commence after Gvernor Acharya’s address to all the legislatures and it end on april 7. 

This will be Singh's 20th budget in his record six chief ministerial tenures in the state. The budget is likely to be populist as the state is going to the polls in December, the official said. The house will go for nine days of break from March 18.