Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget on 1 February. This will be the part-2 budget of the Modi government along with the second budget of the Finance Minister. People have a lot of hope from the budget. There are many interesting stories about the Indian budget, such as when India's first budget was presented, who did it, what year did it, etc. The story of this budget is interesting because its partner lost the chair of the Finance Minister of England. It is about the year 1947. The Government of India presented its first budget within 3 months of its independence (15 August 1947).

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The first budget of independent India was presented on 26 November 1947. This budget was presented by RK Shanmukham Shetty. He became the first Finance Minister of the country after independence. Due to the negligence of Shanmukham Shetty, the Finance Minister of England was demoted. It happened that some part of the budget was leaked due to Shanmukham Shetty's mistake, after which the journalist in England made public all the information related to tax before the budget was presented. 

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The budget for the first time in Hindi: After the independence of the country, the budget has been printed in English for many years. The budget speech was printed in Hindi for the first time in the financial year 1955-56. Since then, budget speeches are continuously prepared in both Hindi and English languages. Morarji Desai's name on record: Morarji Desai was the only former Prime Minister who presented the budget the most times, not only that there were two occasions when he presented the budget on his birthday. February is of 28 days except leap year, but Morarji was born on 29 February and he presented the budget twice on 29 February.

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