Budget 2024: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the first budget of Modi 3.0 in Parliament next week i.e. on 23 July. Everyone from the salaried class to senior citizens, business class, students etc. have high expectations from the budget. The youth hope that the government’s announcements will increase employment opportunities in the country and more and more new jobs will be created. The special thing about this budget is that this is the seventh budget of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. With the presentation of this budget, she will make many records in her name. We are giving you information about some interesting things related to the general budget since independence till now.
This record will be registered in the name of the Finance Minister
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to become the first Finance Minister who will present the budget for the seventh consecutive time. Earlier this record was in the name of former Prime Minister Morarji Desai, who had presented the budget six times in a row. She has presented a total of 10 budgets. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented a total of six general budgets, which include two interim budgets and four full budgets. Now she will become the Finance Minister to present the seventh consecutive budget.
Sitharaman became the Finance Minister in 2019
Nirmala Sitharaman took over as the Finance Minister in the second term of the Modi government. Earlier in 2017, she was given the post of Defense Minister. Nirmala Sitharaman has been the Finance Minister of the country since 2019. While being the Finance Minister, she has made many records in her name. In the year 2020, she gave the longest budget speech, which was two hours and forty minutes long. That year she announced everything from new tax slabs to LIC’s IPO.
When was the first budget of India presented
The first budget of independent India was presented on 26 November 1947. This budget was presented by the then Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty. Talking about the shortest budget of India, this record is in the name of Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel. While holding the post of Finance Minister in the government of Morarji Desai in 1977, he presented the shortest budget speech of only 800 words. This was an interim budget.
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