The government last month constituted a 5-member committee comprising senior officials of the ministries of finance and railways to work out the modalities for the merger.
A panel to examine the issue of merging rail budget with the general budget is likely to submit its report within 10-15 days.
The report is being finalized and will be submitted to the Finance Minister in the next 10-15 days.
Earlier, a committee headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, in a report titled ‘Dispensing with the Railway Budget’, recommended that the two budgets should be merged.