Union Budget 2025: When R.K. Shanmukham Chetty, ex-Diwan of Cochin Kingdom and country's 1st Finance Minister, presented Independent India's 1st budget
Union Budget 2025: Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present her record 8th consecutive budget on February 1, 2025. She will come closer to the record of Morarji Desai, who presented 10 budgets in inconsecutive terms. But it was R.K. Shanmukham Chetty who presented Independent India's first budget in November 1947.
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RK Shanmukham Chetty, India's 1st Finance Minister, presented independent India's first budget on November 26, 1947. Photo: File