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Jan 31, 2022
On February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver her fourth consecutive Union Budget.
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On April 7, 1860, Scottish economist and politician James Wilson presented India's first budget.
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When she presented the Union Budget 2020-21 on February 1, 2020, Sitharaman set a new record for the longest speech, speaking for 2 hours and 42 minutes.
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In 1991, under the Narasimha Rao government, Manmohan Singh gave the longest Budget speech in terms of words, with 18,650 words.
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Former Prime Minister Moraraji Desai holds the record for the most budgets presented in the country's history.
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Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha moved the budget presentation from 5 p.m. to 11 a.m. in 1999.
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The Congress-led administration chose to print the Budget papers in both Hindi and English.
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Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the Budget for 2021-22 was made paperless for the first time in independent India.
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After Indira Gandhi, who presented the budget for the fiscal year 1970-71, Sitharaman became the second woman to present the budget in 2019.
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