Railways to come up with mini-budget tomorrow

Plan includes reward-based 'long-term contracts' with major customers, green transportation project

With the railway budget becoming a history, the roadmap for Indian railways for a financial year, which used to get released with the Budget, has also become thing from the past now. In order to bring in a new tradition, railway minister Suresh Prabhu is set to launch Indian Railways Freight and Passenger Business Action Plan 2017-18, which railway officials are terming as "mini-budget".

"Traditionally, a normal railway budget has about 135 pages, of which about 100 pages are on the action plan for the financial year. With the budgets getting merged, we are unable to present it before Parliament. Hence,