Get to know India's finance ministers from independence below. (August 15, 1947 – August 17, 1948) The first Finance Minister of Independent India was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty. On November 26 ...

Also Read:Union Budget 2025: When and where to watch So spoke R.K Shanmukham Chetty (alternatively spelled Chettiar), the first Finance Minister of free India, as he presented the newly ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday made history as she presented a record eighth consecutive budget, which comes in the backdrop of slowdown in the economy and demand for tax cuts for ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday will present her eighth consecutive Budget, which she will deliver from a digital tablet enclosed in a traditional 'bahi-khata' style pouch. Sitharaman, ...

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 ...

She remains the only finance minister to have presented eight consecutive budgets under a single prime minister. First Budget of Independent India: The first-ever Union Budget of independent India ...

Sitharaman was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister after Prime Minister Modi won a decisive second term. Sitharaman retained her finance portfolio after Modi came ...

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 ...

The first-ever Union Budget of independent India was presented on November 26, 1947, by the nation's first finance minister R K Shanmukham Chetty. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF BUDGETS: Former Prime Minister ...

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 ...

She was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister Modi won a decisive second term. After Mr. Modi came back to power in 2024 for the third time ...