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