Budget 2025: Know some interesting facts related to the budget, who presented the budget first, and when

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget for the financial year 2025-26 on February 1. In such a situation, today we will try to know many such interesting facts related to the budget, which we do not know about. So today we will know when the first budget of India was presented and who did it.

India's first budget

The first budget of the country was presented on 7 April 1860. It was presented during the British rule. At the same time, after independence, India's first budget was presented on 26 November 1947. This budget was presented by India's first Finance Minister R. K. Shanmukham Chetty.

Record of presenting most budgets

The record of presenting the budget the most number of times in the country is held by former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai. He presented the Union Budget 10 times in the House. Whereas P. Chidambaram has presented the budget 9 times, Pranab Mukherjee 8 times and Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the budget 7 times so far.

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