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Who Introduced the First Budget in India After Independence?
Who was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty? R. K. Shanmukham Chetty was born on October 17, 1892, in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, into a wealthy family of mill owners. He completed his education at Madras ...
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Union Budget 2025-26: Meet the MEN who shaped India’s economic landscape - R.K. Shanmukham Chetty, Manmohan Singh, and others
Union Budget 2025: India, today, is a formidable global economic power. It is the world’s fastest-growing trillion-dollar economy and the fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP, standing at an ...
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No room for pessimism—What Shanmukham Chetty said in free India’s first budget speech
Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of RK Shanmukham Chetty’s November 1947 speech presenting the first budget of independent India. Read the full speech here. This is part of ThePrint ...
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Union Budget 2025: More exemption was given for two children; Different taxes for married bachelors, know more here...
It was presented by the country's first Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty. However, it was a kind of review report of the Indian economy. In the subsequent budget, the details of income and ...