East India Company's James Wilson presented the 1st budget of India to the British Crown on April 7, 1860
RK Shanmukham Chetty presented the budget in 1947 for seven and a half years, addressing food grain shortage, elevated imports and inflation
Indira Gandhi was the first woman to present the Budget when she took charge as the finance minister in 1970-71, while she was also the PM
Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai presented budget 10 times
Nirmala Sitharaman is the 1st full time Finance Minister
In 1950, during the printing of the Union Budget it was leaked after which the printing was shifted from Rashtrapati Bhawan to Minto Road
Until 2016, the budget was presented on the last working day of February. In 2017, then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, changed the date to Feb 1
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the longest budget speech in terms of duration. In 2020, she gave 2 hours and 42 minutes long speech
In 2019, FM Sitharaman replaced the old budget briefcase with a bahi khata - a red silk cloth with the National Emblem wrapped with a ribbon
The Union Budget of 2021-22 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on a digital tablet due to covid pandemic