Morarji Desai holds the record of presenting the maximum number of Budgets, including two Interim Budgets. He tabled the Union Budget for 10 times from 1959 to 1963.
P Chidambaram has a record of presenting 9 Budgets-the second-highest number of budgets in the country.
Indira Gandhi was the first woman finance minister. In 1970, she presented the Union Budget of India for 1970-71, after she took over the finance portfolio following the resignation of Morarji Desai as a finance minister.
Nirmala Sitharaman is the first full time woman finance minister of the country.
Independent India's first finance minister R K Shanmukham Chetty, tabled the Budget on November 26, 1947.
The Union budgets for the fiscal years 1959 - 61 to 1963 - 64, inclusive of the interim budget for 1962 - 63, were presented by Morarji Desai.
On February 29 in 1964 and 1968, he became the only finance minister to present the Union budget on his birthday.
The first Union budget of independent India was presented by R. K. Shanmukham Chetty on November 26, 1947.