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Kerala Left Out as Union Budget 2026 Skips High-Speed Rail Despite State Push for Thiruvananthapuram–Kannur Corridor Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman , while presenting the Union Budget 2026–27 , announced the development of seven new high-speed rail corridors across India , marking a major step towards modernising the country’s passenger rail infrastructure and promoting environmentally sustainable transport systems. The announcement was made during her ninth consecutive

In 1999, when February 28 fell on a Sunday, then Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presented the Budget a day earlier on Saturday, February 27, during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee–led NDA government. Nirmala Sitharaman Creates History With 9th Consecutive Union Budget Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman  created history on February 1 by presenting her ninth consecutive Union Budget , becoming the first Finance Minister in India  to deliver nine Budgets in an unbroken sequence