Budget 2018: Full text of all Budget speeches delivered since Independence

Arun Jaitley is the 24th finance minister to present India Budget on the floor of the House since Independence. Before Budget 2018, as many as 88 Union Budgets, including interim, have been presented

On February 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Budget 2018, his fifth and the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s final full Budget in the ongoing term. Budget 2018-19 will also be important in many respects because India has just had a fiscally difficult year and might need its finance minister to put things in order through a tight leash on the economy.
 
However, there are also some who say that Jaitley might be impelled to dole out freebies in Union Budget 2018, in spite of the fisc, out of political compulsions – to shore up