The date on which Union Budget is presented was changed from February-end to February 1 in 2017, while its presentation time was changed from 5:00pm to 11:00am in 1999. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman switched from a briefcase to a cloth-wrapped 'bahi khata' to carry Budget documents in 2019. Sitharaman presented India's first paperless Budget in 2021 on a Made-in-India tablet.