Private Cash - Commercial Department

 

Private Cash - Commercial Department

• Source: Click for Private Cash - Railway Board letters 

• Railway Board Master Circular No. 65 of 2013 dated 17.10.2013 

• Commercial manual Para 2429 says   

“Keeping of private cash in station safe, etc., forbidden.—Private cash should not be kept in the railway cash chest, drawers, ticket tubes, cash safes etc. If any such amount or extra cash, whether stated to be private or otherwise, is found by the supervisory staff or inspecting official, it should be remitted to the cash office.

The staff working in booking offices, parcels offices and goods sheds, whose duties actually involve cash transactions with the public, must declare in writing their private cash daily before they take up their duties in the station diary or in the cash book or in a separate register to be maintained for this purpose. The specific categories of staff to whom these instructions apply, will be notified by the railway administrations concerned. 

• Ceiling of Private Cash (Revised in 2013 Oct)

Category	Ceiling of Private Cash
Stationary Staff	Rs. 750
Mobile Staff	Rs. 2000

  

• In case, staff required to carry the amount more than ceiling, specific endorsement with the actual amount carried must be made in the relevant record by the concerned supervisor.  

• Declaration of Private cash in the relevant register - Both in figures and in words. 

• Private Cash - The following categories of staff who handle cash are:

1. Parcel clerk, ECRC, Booking clerk, Goods clerk, Siding clerk

2.  TC, HTC, Chief Inspector of Tickets (Station), TTE, Conductor, Guard, Assistant Guard, CTI, Coach attendant incl: Electrical staff

3. SM, ASM (who are doing commercial work/duty with cash transactions) 

4. Parcel porter, scaleman accompanying TTE 

5. Bill distributors, Asst. Manager, Manager in moving catering units

6. Markmen

7. Supervisors who handle Cash 

• Zonal Railways can add any other categories of the staff to the above list, if they so feel. 

Key Points for MCQ:

1. Ceiling of Private Cash - Stationary staff - Rs.750 

2. Ceiling of Private Cash - Mobile staff - Rs.2000

3. Para 2429 of Commercial Manual 

4. Commercial Circular 65 of 2013 

5. Declaration of Private cash in the relevant register - Both in figures and in words. 

6. Zonal Railways can add any other categories of the staff to the list of staff who declare Private cash, if they so feel.  

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