Notable Moments in India's Budget History

India's first budget was presented by James Wilson on April 7, 1860

R K Shanmugam Chetty presented the first post-independence budget on February 28, 1948

Budget presentation time changed from 5 pm to 11 am in 1999 by Yashwant Sinha

Dr. Manmohan Singh and Arun Jaitley have the longest budget speeches, each with 18,604 words

Hirubhai Patel gave the shortest budget speech in 1977

Nirmala Sitharaman holds the record for the longest budget speech at 2 hours and 42 minutes

Morarji Desai holds the record for the most budget proposals, totaling 10

Sitharaman is the first to present seven consecutive budgets

The Union Budget was only in English until 1955; now it's printed in both Hindi and English

India's first budget was presented by James Wilson on April 7, 1860

The 2021-22 budget was the first entirely digitized due to Covid-19