This special record was registered in the name of Nirmala Sitharaman as soon as she presented the budget, equal to Morarji Desai, leaving her behind.

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her sixth consecutive budget in Parliament on Thursday and completed her budget speech in 56 minutes, which is her shortest budget speech till date. The credit for giving the longest budget speech in the House also goes to Sitharaman when she read the speech for two hours and 40 minutes in the year 2020. As India’s first full-time woman finance minister, Sitharaman’s budget speech in 2019 lasted two hours and 17 minutes. In the year 2021, he gave the budget speech for one hour and 50 minutes. His speech in 2022 was of 92 minutes and in 2023 it was of 87 minutes.

Sitharaman presented a budget of Rs 47.66 lakh crore

In the financial year 2024-25, the size of the budget has increased by 6.1 percent to Rs 47.66 lakh crore. The size of the budget has increased due to increase in expenditure and higher allocation for capital expenditure and social sector schemes. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the interim budget in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, said, as per the revised estimates, the total receipts excluding borrowings are likely to be Rs 27.56 lakh crore. Tax receipts in this are Rs 23.24 lakh crore. The revised estimate of total expenditure is Rs 44.90 lakh crore.

Sitharaman made a special record as soon as she presented the budget

This is the sixth consecutive budget of Nirmala Sitharaman. With this, many records have been made in his name. He equaled the record held by Morarji Desai of presenting five consecutive full budgets and one interim budget. Also, Sitharaman is the first full-time woman Finance Minister, who has presented five full budgets since July 2019 and presented the Vote on Account i.e. interim budget on Thursday.

Sitharaman broke the records of these former finance ministers

With Sitharaman presenting the interim budget on February 1, she left behind the records of former finance ministers like Manmohan Singh, Arun Jaitley, P Chidambaram and Yashwant Sinha. These leaders had presented five consecutive budgets. As Finance Minister, Desai presented five annual budgets and one interim budget between 1959–1964. Modi government handed over the responsibility of Finance Department to Sitharaman in its second term after the 2019 general elections. She became the second woman after Indira Gandhi to present the budget. Indira Gandhi presented the budget for the financial year 1970-71.

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