MORARJI DESAI holds the record of presenting the most budgets, at 10

INDIRA GANDHI is the only woman to have presented India's Union Budget

R K SHANMUKHAM CHETTY presented India's first budget on November 26, 1947

A customary Halwa ceremony is performed 10-12 days ahead of the Budget every year

MORARJI DESAI is the only finance minister to present a budget on his birthday on Feb 29, 1964 and 1968

In 1997-98, when I K Gujral's govt was on its way out, the Budget was passed without debate

P CHIDAMBARAM's 1997-98 Budget was termed as Dream Budget for lowering tax rates

YASHWANT SINHA changed the timing of Budget presentation to 11am from 5pm in 1999

Budget was presented on the last working day of Feb until 2016, but Jaitley changed it to Feb 1 in 2017

In 2017, the railway budget was presented with the Union budget breaking a 92-year-old practice
