By saying good-bye to a 92-year-old tradition, the Union Cabinet decided to merge the Railway budget with the General budget and agreed in principle to advance the date of its presentation in Parliament. Railway historians say that it was during the British rule, in the early 1920s, that on the basis of the report of the “Acworth Committee”, railway finances (those of government - owned railway companies) were separated from the general finances. The first Railway budget, under the system,