The word 'budget' has been derived from 'bougette' which refers to a leather bag in French. The Union Budget is an annual financial report of the country's performance in a financial year.
Here are some interesting facts about the budget:
In terms of words, Manmohan Singh's watershed 1991 Union Budget was the longest. It contained 18,650 words.
While, in terms of paragraphs, Arun Jaitley's 2014 Union Budget, the first of the Modi government, was the longest. It had 253 paragraphs that Jaitley took 2 hours 10 minutes to read excluding a 4-minute break.
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