India's Budget 2026: Tradition Meets Digitisation

India's budget is a very important event where the government talks about how it will spend money for the year.

For a long time, the budget was printed on paper and given to everyone.

But in 2021, something special happened.

The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, used a tablet to show the budget instead of paper.

This was the first time since India's first budget in 1947 that it was not printed on a large scale.

The budget documents were shared electronically with all the important people in the government.

This change shows that India is moving towards using more technology, but some old traditions are still kept.