New Delhi, Jan 30: The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will discuss the Interim Budget for 2004-05 on February 4, and Finance Minister Jaswant Singh will reply to the debate in the Lower House the same day. Finance Minister's reply in the Upper House would be on February 5, the last day of the 13th Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told reporters in New Delhi on Friday after a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Rajya Sabha.

Rajya Sabha would resume discussion on unemployment on February 5 while the Lok Sabha would have private members' business on that day. Bureau Report