Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Budget 2023-24 on February 1. RK Shanmukham Chetty presented the first Union Budget of independent India on November 26, 1947. On February 1, 2021, Sitharaman presented the first paperless budget due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s take a look at some of the interesting facts to know about the key annual financial statement.
There have been 73 annual budgets, 14 interim budgets and four special budgets, or mini-budgets since Independence.