Budget 2023: Most used words in FM Sitharaman's last 4 budget speeches |Analysis of Zee Business

Budget 2023: The Finance Minister of India presents the Union Budget of the country on February 1 every year. This budget includes the income and expenses of the central government for the upcoming financial year.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget for the financial year 2023-24 (FY24) in Parliament tomorrow. This will be her fifth Union Budget presentation as Finance Minister. All eyes will be on Sitharaman tomorrow as she is expected to make several key announcements on budgetary allocations, infrastructure, taxation, agriculture and others.

However, ahead of Budget 2023, Zee Business has taken out an interesting fact about Sitharaman's budgets. We have analysed the last 4 budgets and prepared a list that shows how many times Finance Minister used a particular word in her earlier budget speeches.

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Interesting analysis of the last 4 budget speeches -

Year         Speech Hours
2022         1:30 hours
2021         1:40 hours
2020         2:41 hours
2019         2:17 hours

Most repeated word in the 2022 budget speech
Word                 No. of repetitions
Digital                    35
Development         33
Infrastructure         27

Most repeated word in the 2021 budget speech
Word                   No. of repetitions
Infrastructure            57
Health                      31
Development          28

Most repeated word in the 2020 budget speech
Word                  No. of repetitions
Development          48
Infrastructure          33
Education               25
Housing                 24

Most repeated word in the 2019 budget speech
Word                  No. of repetitions
Investment            35
Electronic              22
Technology           18

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