India's interim budget is going to be presented tomorrow 1 February. During this, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present major finance schemes in the Parliament House. During this period, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will allocate the expenditure for the schemes to be implemented across the country. This will be Nirmala Sitharaman's sixth budget during her tenure. This is the last budget of the second term of the Modi government. For this reason, this budget is being called an interim budget. However, the full budget will be given to the new government that will be formed after the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Will be presented by him. Today in this series, through this news, we are going to tell you about some interesting things related to the budget, about which you would hardly know. Let us know about them in detail -
The first budget of independent India was presented by RK Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947. For your information, let us tell you that RK Shanmukham Chetty was also the first Finance Minister of India.
You will be surprised to know that the tradition of bringing the budget in a briefcase has been going on in India for a long time. It was demolished in the year 2019. This year, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman brought the budget in a special kind of folder, which was wrapped in red silk cloth. There was also a national emblem on it.
Do you know where the word budget originated? For your information, let us tell you that the word budget originated from the French word budget. Its meaning is a leather bag.
In the year 2017, the Railway Budget was merged with the Union Budget. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Rajiv Gandhi were the only Prime Ministers of the country who presented the budget.
(PC: PTI)
