On February 1, 2025, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to deliver her eighth consecutive Union Budget. Under ...

So spoke R.K Shanmukham Chetty (alternatively spelled Chettiar), the first Finance Minister of free India, as he presented ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Union Budget speech in 2020 was by far the longest, lasting two hours and 40 minutes.

Sitharaman, India’s first full-time woman Finance Minister, broke away from the colonial tradition of carrying a Budget briefcase in July 2019, opting instead for a traditional ‘bahi-khata’, to carry ...

The first Economic Survey of India was presented in 1950-51 by Finance Minister Dr. John Matthai alongside the budget.

The survey pegged India’s growth in the financial year 2026 at 6.3-6.8 per cent. This is in line with the International ...

The annual presentation of the Union Budget in India has been a longstanding tradition. For decades, the Finance Minister ...

India's Budget history began with James Wilson’s 1860 presentation under British rule, introducing income tax and fiscal ...

MAXIMUM NUMBER OF BUDGETS: Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai holds the record for presenting the maximum number of budgets.

The country’s first budget post-Independence was presented in November 1947.Railway Budget was merged with Union Budget in ...