Get to know India's finance ministers from independence below. (August 15, 1947 – August 17, 1948) The first Finance Minister of Independent India was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty. On November 26 ...
and the first budget of independent India was presented by then Finance Minister R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on 26 November 1947. This budget came just three months after India gained independence ...