Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also tabled the Budget documents which provide a fractional break-up of every Re 1 that comes into the government coffers and how it gets spent.

Budget 2026 proposes establishing and upgrading the National Large Solar Telescope, National Large Optical Infrared Telescope, Himalayan Chandra Telescope and COSMOS-2 planetarium

Nirmala Sitharaman announced seven high-speed rail corridors, with Mumbai-Pune in 48 minutes, Chennai–Bengaluru in 1 hour 13 minutes.