Since independence, there have been 89 Union budgets, including 12 interim budgets. Nirmala Sitharaman’s 162-minute speech in 2020 was the longest of them all.
Mandaviya, who was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Amrita Patel Centre for Public Health at Bhaikaka University in Karamsad in Anand, said that India has created a "new world order" of serving humanity, even as many countries were "hoarding medical supplies" during the pandemic.
India and Pakistan were divided 76 years ago, but there remain outstanding financial claims between the two nations due to asset division. When the British Empire divided the countries, Lord Radcliffe drew the lines on a map but the division of assets was a much more difficult negotiation. Assets ranged from moveable ones, such as office furniture and lightbulbs, to personnel, with government departments, defence forces and the central bank requiring careful division. Even today, both countries still claim the other owes them money, stemming from disagreements over payment of outstanding balances.
Budget 2022: FM Nirmala Sitharaman delivers shortest ever budget speech today, breaks her own record - India’s budget presentation is known for being overtly long as an average speech lies between 90 to 120 minutes.