IN PICS | Budget 2022-23: From Briefcase To Digital Bahi Khata Tablet - Evolution Of Budget Presentations

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Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrives at the Parliament House to present the Budget for 1984 -1985 on February 29, 1984 in New Delhi. The Budget was usually brought in in briefcase to the Parliament by the Union Finance Minister. (Getty Image)

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee holds up a briefcase containing annual budget documents as he arrives in Parliament to present the Union Budget in New Delhi on July 6, 2009. (Getty Images)

While the shape and colour of the briefcase kept changing, the budget briefcase was an impact of British colonization and had remained the since then. Shanmukham Shetty, the first Finance Minister of independent India, also brought the same suitcase to present the budget. (Getty Image)

During the 1998–99 budget, Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha introduced a black leather bag with straps and buckles, while former PM Manmohan Singh carried a plain black bag during his popular 1991 budget.

In 2019, this changed when the Budget documents were brought in a red velvet cloth to give it a more Indian appearance of bookkeeping or khatha. (Getty Image)

During the 2021-22 Budget presentation, which was in the middle of the Covid pandemic many work had shifted online, including the Budget. The year's budget was presented from a tablet. (PTI Image)

Photo from before the 2020-2021 Budget, thorough security checks are made of the copies of the Budget ahead of the presentation with sniffer dogs and metal dectors. (Getty Image)

Workers carrying sealed bags containing copies of the union budget 2020-21 under the watch of security personnel, inside the Parliament complex, on February 1, 2020. (Getty Image)