Notable Moments In India's Budget History

Notable Moments in India's Budget History

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

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

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

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

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Hirubhai Patel gave the shortest budget speech in 1977

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

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

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Sitharaman is the first to present seven consecutive budgets

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

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

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