In November 1947, the nation's first post-independence budget was presented. Learn about the finance ministers of India and the specifics of their budget presentations since independence.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her eighth consecutive Union Budget on February 1, 2025, a historic milestone in India's financial governance. She will be the first finance minister ...

In India, different finance ministers carried briefcases in red, black, tan, or brown. India's first finance minister, RK Shanmukham Chetty, carried a leather portfolio to present the first Budget ...

So spoke R.K Shanmukham Chetty (alternatively spelled Chettiar), the first Finance Minister of free India, as he presented the newly independent nation’s first full budget to the Indian Parliament on ...

Scheme for first time Entrepreneurs ... the myriad challenges faced by children in India, the analysis said. The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday ...

After Independence, India's first Finance Minister RK Shanmukham Chetty used a leather portfolio case on Budget day. Over the years, different kinds of briefcases were used by Finance Ministers ...

Sitharaman, India’s first full-time woman Finance Minister, broke away from the colonial tradition of carrying a Budget briefcase in July 2019, opting instead for a traditional ‘bahi-khata’, to carry ...

The tradition of carrying a briefcase for budget presentations in India, rooted in British customs, evolved when Nirmala ...

Singh understood the power of compromise. “He knew that sometimes taking two steps backward and moving one step forward was ...