Railway Accounts Department Examinations

Friday, January 19, 2024

Mapping of erstwhile Demands with Major Heads & SMH - Sub Major Heads



 Mapping of erstwhile Demands with

  Major Heads & SMH - Sub Major Heads


Group

Description

Erstwhile Demand

Major

Head

SMH 


Policy & Services common to IR

Railway Board

01


3001

Nil

Misc. Expenditure (General)

02

Nil

Admin

General Superintendence & Services

03










3002

1

Repairs & Maintenance

P.Way & Works

04

2

Motive Power

05

3

Carriages & Wagons

06

4

Plant & Equipment

07

5

Operating Expenses

Rolling Stock & Equipment

08

6

Traffic

09

7

Fuel

10

8

Others

Staff Welfare & Amenities 

11

9

Misc. Working Expenses 

12

10

PF, Pension & Other Retirement Benefits

13

11

Funds

Appropriation to Funds

14

12

Dividends

Dividends to General Revenues

15

3005

Nil

Assets

Assets - Acquisition, Construction & Replacement

16

5002

Nil





Important Major Heads 

Major Head

Description

1001  

Indian Railways-Miscellaneous Receipts

1002

Indian Railways-Commercial Lines-

Revenue Receipts

1003

Indian Railways-Strategic Lines-Revenue Receipts

3001

Indian Railways-Policy Formulation,

 Direction, Research, and other Miscellaneous 

Organisation

3002

Indian Railways-Commercial Lines-Working Expenses

3003

Indian Railways-Strategic Lines-Working Expenses

3005

Payments to General Revenues (Dividends etc)

5002 

Capital Outlay on Indian Railways-Commercial Lines

5003

Capital Outlay on Indian Railways-Strategic Lines

Important Major Heads (within brackets are Erstwhile Demand Numbers)


Revenue Receipts

X,Y & Z

Ordinary Working Expenses 

(3 to 14)

Capital Expenditure 

(16)

Commercial Lines

1002

3002

5002

Strategic

 Lines

1003

3003

5003


Note: Strategic lines existed in 4 Zonal Railways i.e., NR, NFR, NWR & WR  


Wednesday, January 17, 2024

GASAB - Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board

 

GASAB - Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board

  • Constituted by C&AG - Comptroller & Auditor General of India 

  • Established in 2002 

  • A Nodal advisory body in India 

  • The Objective are emerging new priorities in Public Finance Management and to keep pace with International trends. 

  • New priorities are good governance, fiscal prudence, efficiency & transparency in public spending. 

  •  All over the World, the accounting systems are on transition from rule to principle based standards and from cash to accrual based system of accounting. 

  • The Membership of GASAB - Reviewed in 2021

Structure of the Board

1. Chairperson - Dy.C&AG (Govt Accounts)
2. Member Finance, Railways
3. Member (Finance) Telecom Commission, Department of Telecom
4. Secretary, Department of Post
5. Controller General of Defence Accounts
6. Controller General of Accounts
7. Additional / Joint Secretary (Budget),Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India
8. Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India or his nominee
9. Additional Deputy CAG,GASAB
10-13. Principal Secretaries (Finance) of four States by rotation
14. President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) or his nominee
15. Director General/Principal Director (Government Accounts), Office of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India as Member secretary.

Responsibilities:

  1. To establish & improve standards of Government accounts

  2. Propose standards relating to usefulness of financial reports. 

  3. To keep the standards current and reflect changes in the governmental environment. 

  4. Guidance on implementation of standards. 

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Comparison among Vande Bharat, Namo Bharat, Amrit Bharat

 Comparison among Trishakti Bharat Trains 

Picture

Category

AC or

Non AC

MPS - Maximum Permissible Speed

Gauge

Radius

Features

Namo Bharat

Non AC

160 KMs Per Hour

Standard


1435 mm

Short Distances - Less than 200 KMs


Return to Originating point on same day like Local Trains

Local/Regional Trains, Sitting accommodation only, RRTS (Regional Rapid Transit System) Corridor between Delhi & Meerut, Push-Pull technology Loco, EMU (Electric Multiple Unit), 6 Coaches

Vande Bharat

AC

160 KMs Per Hour

Broad 


1656 mm

Medium Distances - 200 KMs to 800 KMs


Return to Originating point on same day

Inter City, Sitting Accommodation only,  AC Chair Car & Executive Class, 8/16 Coaches, Trainset, No Locomotive

Amrit Bharat

Non AC

130 KMs Per Hour

Broad


1656 mm

Long Distances - More than 800 KMs


Overnight journey

Sleeper & Unreserved accommodation, Push-Pull technology Loco, 2 Locomotives, Trainset, 22 Coaches