India, Jan. 27 -- For the first time since Independence, India's Union Budget will be presented on a Sunday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to table the Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament on February 1, 2026, a date that quietly creates history in India's parliamentary calendar.

While Budget Day has long been associated with weekdays, and occasionally Saturdays, a Sunday presentation has never happened before. The upcoming Budget not only outlines India's economic roadmap but also highlights how deeply the country's budget-making process has evolved over the decades.

The Union Budget 2026 will be the first-ever Sunday Budget presentation in independent India.

For decades, governments deliberately avoided Sundays. Until 2016...