FinMin proposal involves merging rail & general budgets and advancing its presentation in Parliament to January from February end The finance ministry will shortly move a cabinet note on a multidimensional recast of the budget that's set to mark a break with the past.The proposal involves merging the rail budget with the general budget and advancings its presentation in Parliament to January from February end. If cabinet endorses the plan, a January budget will also see no distinction between plan and non-plan expenditure. And, if finance minister Arun Jaitley does succeed in getting the goods and services tax (GST) rolled out on April 1, revenues will take on a vastly different look, with the budget process being tweaked accordingly. An internal government panel has backed the idea of doing away with a separate railway budget, a 92-year-old practice that dates back to the colonial era. The panel will suggest how this can be achieved. “The proposal will be moved short