The Suit Does Not Fit


be an unmixed blessing. Further, despite the upward revision of the Third Plan outlay on the railways, and despite the rising costs of operation, the contribution from the railways' own sources to the Plan outlay was larger than expected. Yet the 4 per cent higher than expected contribution to Plan outlay seems much less remarkable against the background of exhortations over the years that the railways should meet most of the costs of their development programmes.