The latest decision will provide a big relief to the railway passengers as the scheme will also be removed from total 32 trains during lean periods.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal is all set to give a Diwali gift to travellers. The Flexi-fare scheme has previously felt criticism from the passengers CAG of India

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the number of direct taxpayers is expected to double to 7.6 crore during the five-year term of the present government on account of various initiatives like rationalisation of tax structure, lowering of rates and anti-black money measures.