India's Debut Budget: Tracing 1860 to 2024

Who Presented India’s First Budget? Scottish economist James Wilson presented India's first budget in 1860, exclusively in English

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to unveil the 93rd budget on July 23, 2024

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India’s First Budget as an Independent Nation India's first budget as a free nation was presented by RK Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947

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