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Making a History; After 92 years Railway Budget Merged with Union Budget;

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Since 92 years it was like a tradition for India to announce Rail Budget before 2 days of Union budget announcement. The Rail Budget will be Merged with Union Budget as said by Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley that "Top Priority" after the cabinet given it's approval. From the next coming year the rail budget will be announced with common union budget. Mr. Jaitley also said that the government is in favour of advancing of budget system & the representation process. also he added  "All proposals regarding the Railway Budget will be part of general budget, which will have a separate discussion on railway expenditure," the finance minister said today, but emphasised that "the functional autonomy of the Railways will be maintained." The merger will relief Indian Railway finance system & the finance operations will be directly operated by the Finance Ministry as other departments. This will also help Rail for the burden of 44,000 crore

Why does Indian Railways still use the same dot-matrix printer?

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A dot matrix printer is still used today because it serves a very specific purpose and does so very, very cheap for the thing it does. 1. Multiple pages printing: There are no printers that are cheap and can print on multiple papers at the same time. The dot matrix printer can be used to print one original and 3 carbon copies of the same document at the same time. This makes printing and keeping track of duplicates, triplicates and quadruplicates  very easy.  For example, the reservation chart that is stuck outside the train, has multiple copies. One copy goes to the head office, one to the ticket checker, one on the platform and one the train. The multiple copies are printed simultaneously and it is because of the dot matrix printer. The Indian management system and businesses rely heavily on duplicates and triplicates. Trust me when I say that. 2. Versatile printing: There is no limitation on the paper dimension you can print on with the dot matrix printer. According to my