You do know that the government will present its budget tomorrow -- the 81st in the history of independent India.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the Union Budget for the seventh time, the second-highest by any Finance Minister. The Parliament has so far hosted 80 budget speeches, including interim and special-situation budgetary proposals, ever since the first union budget of indepdendent India was presented by then Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty on
November 26, 1947.

The maximum number of 10 budgets have been presented by Morarji Desai, while Mukherjee will tomorrow join the league of P Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha, Y B Chavan and C D Deshmukh, who have presented seven budgets each in the past.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the country's fourth Finance Minister T T Krishnamachari have presented six budgets each during their tenures in the Finance Ministry.