Why Railway Budget was merged with Union Budget? Who played big role in change? Know here
The Union Budget and Railway budget were presented separately in India for a long time. However, the 92-year-old tradition was scrapped by the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in 2016 after which, both the budgets have been merged and are presented on the same day.
Notably, India was the only country in the world where the Railway Budget was presented separately. Source - PTI.