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Chidambaram set to present India's 82nd budget
Wednesday February 27, 2013 07:53:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Finance
Minister P. Chidambaram was set to present India's 82nd national
budget in the Lok Sabha Thursday that will be the eighth such
personal exercise for him -- two short of the record of 10 set by
former prime minister Morarji Desai.
Since independence in August 1947, the country has seen a total of
25 ministers hold the finance portfolio. It has also seen 81
budgets -- 65 normal annual budgets, 12 interim budgets and four
special-occasion budgetary measures, also called mini-budgets.
Among them, Morarji Desai presented eight normal and two interim
budgets, which had taken his tally to a record 10 -- this remains
unchallenged so far. Thursday will see Chidambaram equal the
eight-budget track record of his predecessor, Pranab Mukherjee,
who is now president.
Chidambaram, thus, will surpass Yashwant Sinha, Y.B. Chavan and
C.D. Deshmukh who all presented seven budgets each. Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and the country's fourth finance minister T.T.
Krishnamachari have presented six budgets each.
The next in line in terms of number of budgets presented are R.
Venkataraman and H.M. Patel with three Budgets each, while Jaswant
Singh, V.P. Singh, C. Subramaniam, John Mathai and R.K. Shanmukham
Chetty have two each to their credit.
Among those who have presented one budget each all as prime
ministers holding additional charge of the finance portfolio are
Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and his grandson
Rajiv Gandhi.
These apart, Charan Singh, N.D. Tiwari, Madhu Dandavate, S.B.
Chavan and Sachindra Chaudhuri have also presented one budget
each.
Among the 25 finance ministers since independence, the tenures of
two leaders holding the finance portfolio -- Inder Kumar Gujral
and Hemvati Nandan Bahugana -- did not afford them the pleasure of
presenting a national budget.
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