CHAPTER VIII OPERATIONAL AND FINANCIAL PLANNING 801.  General—National Planning is a charter of orderly progress. Its purpose is to organise efficient exploitation of the country's resources to increase production, and to step up the tempo of economic activity to the maximum extent possible. Planning provides a framework of time and space that binds sectors and regions together and relates each year's efforts to the succeeding years. 802.   As a major transport industry, the Railways play an important part in the economic   progress of the country by the transport of raw materials to and finished goods from key industries, by   the movement of food-grains from agriculturally surplus areas to deficit areas, and by meeting the vital   transport needs of the country in other spheres.   The Railway plan is, therefore, a part of the integrated plan for the development of...