 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sita Raman shall be presenting the budget on February 1st. But before that, we thought of looking back at some interesting facts about the previous budgets. RK Shanmukham Shetty had presented the first Union budget of Independent India on November 26th, 1947. In pre-independent India, the first ever budget was announced on April 7th, 1860 by James Wilson of the East India Company. The highest number of budgets have been presented by Morarji Desai, who presented a total of 10 budgets. Interestingly, he presented it twice on the occasion of his birthday, which happened to fall on February 29th, in 1964 and 1968, both of which were Libyans. In 2017, the real budget was merged with the Union budget. The only prime ministers still date to have presented our budget are Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Till the year 99, the Union budget was announced at 5 p.m. on the last working day of February. This was changed to 11 a.m. by former Finance Minister Jaswant Sinha. Another change took place in 2016, when the Union budget, which was always presented on the last working day of February, was changed by former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to February 1st, 2017. In terms of word count, the longest budget speech was delivered by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his stint as Finance Minister in 1991. While on the other hand, the longest budget speech in terms of duration was delivered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sita Raman. And lastly, on February 1st, 2021, the first paperless budget was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sita Raman.