Union Budget 2024: What gets costlier, what gets cheaper

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made history by presenting her seventh consecutive Budget on Tuesday, surpassing the record of former Prime Minister and Finance Minister Morarji Desai.

Sitharaman, who holds the record for the longest Budget speech delivered on February 1, 2020, which lasted two hours and 40 minutes before being cut short, will now also hold the record for the maximum number of consecutive budget presentations.

Desai presented six budgets during his tenure as Finance Minister from 1959 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1969.

Former Prime Minister Morarji Desai still holds the overall record for presenting the most number of budget speeches, with 10 in total. He served as Finance Minister under former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Here's what has gotten cheaper:

Mobile phones
Mobile parts, batteries
Mobile chargers
Solar sets
Gold and silver
Platinum Jeweller
Clothes
Shoes
Cancer medicines
X-ray equipment
Electric cars
Copper goods
Leather goods
Fish and fish products
25 essential minerals
Lithium battery

Here's what has gotten costlier:

Plastic products
Ammonium Nitrate
Telecom Equipment