On 1 February 2026, Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth straight Union Budget, the first ever delivered on a Sunday, and also tabled the 16th Finance Commission report on tax devolution for 2026-2031. India's first full-time woman Finance Minister, appointed in 2019, now nears Morarji Desai's record of 10 budgets, which were not consecutive; P. Chidambaram presented nine and Pranab Mukherjee eight. She also holds the record for the longest speech (2 hours 40 minutes in 2020). India's first Budget was presented on 26 November 1947 by R.K. Shanmukham Chetty.