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Friday, July 5, 2024

Indian Railways - General Knowledge for LDCE

 


Source: Indian Railways Magazine Annual Issue FY 2023-24 (May-June 2024)

  1. Chairman & CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Railway Board - Smt. Jaya varma Sinha 

  2. Member, Finance - Ms. Roopa Srinivasan

  3. Member, O&BD (operations & Business Development) - Shri Ravinder Goyal

  4. Member, Infrastructure - Shri Anil Kumar Khandelwal

  5. Member, T&RS (Traction & Rolling Stock) - Shri Satish Kumar 

  6. Director General, HR (Human Resources) - Apex scale (equivalent to Member, Railway Board) - Shri Naveen Gulati  

  7. NHSRCL stands for National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited - Between Mumbai & Ahmedabad - First Bullet Train project in India

  8. NHSRCL - Partners are Indian Railways, Govt of Maharashtra & Govt of Gujarat 

  9. MAHSR stands for Mumbai - Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project - 508 KMs

  10. MAHSR - 81% of the Project cost funded by Japan Govt through JICA - Japanese International Cooperation Agency - ODA loan - Official Development Assistance 

  11. FY 2023-24 - Total Revenue - Rs. 2.57 Lakh Crores (All time high)  (Freight 1.72 Lakh Crores) 

  12. PKM stands for Passenger Kilo Meter 

  13. FY 2023-24 - PKMs - 1.07  Lakh Crore

  14. FY 2023-24 - NTKMs - Approx 1 Lakh Crore

  15. NTKM stands for Net Tonne Kilo Meter

  16. FY 2023-24 - Pension expenditure - Rs.58,000 Crores (Total Pensioners - 15 Lakhs)

  17. FY 2023-24 - Total Freight Loading - 1591 Million Tons (All time High)

  18. Mission 3000 MT - Target of Freight Loading - By the year 2030 

  19. Target by 2030 Year - 40% Modal share of Railways in Freight loading 

  20. FY 2023-24  - 98.43%

  21. Target - 75 GCTs (Gati shakti Cargo Terminals)

  22. Amrit Bharat Station scheme - 1318 Railway Stations 

  23. Station Redevelopment - Recently completed ones are 

  1. Rani Kamlapati Railway Station, Bhopal

  2. Gandhinagar Capital Railway Station 

  3. Sir S. Visvesvaraya Terminus, Bangalore (First AC Terminal in India) 

  4. Gomtinagar Railway Station, Lucknow

  5. Ayodhya Dham Junction

  1. TACS - Train Avoidance Collision System - indigenous ATP (Automatic Train Protection) - Christened as Kavach. 

  2. ROR stands for Rail Over Rail 

  3. Hyperloop - A new mode of transportation - Asia’s first hyperloop testing facility at IIT, Chennai with collaboration of Indian Railways - Project cost - Rs. 163 Crores 

  4. EI system stands for Electronic Interlocking system ( replaces traditional mechanical signaling in Indian Railways )

  5. TRC stands for Track Recording Cars 

  6. Aastha special trains - run by IRCTC - socio cultural destinations like religious / spiritual tours

  7. Bharat Gaurav Trains - Connects Cultural / Heritage / Historical places 

  8. GSV stands for Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya - Vadodara  - Railway University 

  9. OSOP stands for One Station One Product 

  10. Women employees - Indian Railways - Approx 1 Lakh 

  11. Viksit Bharat  by 2047 

  12. RTC power stands for Round The Clock power 

  13. IPAS - Integrated Payroll & Accounting System - One stop solution for many actions  

  14. FY 2023-24 - New track constructed - 14 KMs per day 

  15. FY 2023-24 - Electrification of Track - 18 KMs per day 

  16. GC stands for General Consultant 

  17. PMS stands for Project Management Services 

  18. Projects - Digital initiatives 

Purpose

E application

Stands for 

Sanction

IRPSM

IR Projects Sanctions & Management 

Tendering

IREPS 

IR E Procurement System

Execution

IRWCMS

IR Works Contracts Management System

Payments

IPAS

Integrated Payroll & Accounting System 


  1. USBRL stands for Udhampur - Srinagar - Baramulla Rail Link

  2. ABS stands for Automatic Block Signalling 

  3. SigDATE stands for Signal Design Automation Tool for EI (Electronic Interlocking)

  4. RGM stands for Rail Grinding Machine 

  5. MLC stands for Manned Level Crossing 

  6. UMLC stands for Un - Manned Level Crossing

  7. USFD stands for Ultra-Sonic Flaw Detection  (testing of rails)

  8. Hydrogen fuel cell based train - NR awarded a contract for conversion of Diesel Power mode to Hydrogen fuel as retrofitment of the DEMU rake on Sonipat - Jind section - expected to commence in FY 2024-25 - Planned to operate in Hill Routes / Heritage routes  - Sanction for 35 rakes in RSP 2023-24 

  9. NMG Coaches - New Modified Goods coaches (for transporting automobiles) 

  10. DEMU stands Diesel Electric Multiple Unit 

  11. ACWP stands for Automatic Coach Washing Plants 

  12. Hungry for Cargo - Motto of IR 

  13. VAP stands for Virtual Aggregation Platform  - Portal for Parcel Management

  14. RKVY stands for Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana   - approx 30000 youth  completed training in IR Training Centres  (100 hours / 18 working days)  - 40000 youth are enrolled. (as part of Atma Nirbhar Project under PMKVY - Pradhana Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana)

  15. BLW - Nodal Agency for RKVY 

  16. Mission Karmayogi - NPCSCB

  17. NPCSCB stands for National Programme for Civil Service Capacity Building 

  18. iGOT Karmayogi platform 

  19. iGOT stands for Integrated Government Online Training 

  20. AMTK stands for Accident per Million Train Kilometers 

  21. AMTK - Index of Safety performance in IR 

  22. FY 2023-24 - AMTK is 0.03  (in FY 2010-11 - 0.14) 

  23. RRSK stands for Rashtriya Rail Sanraksh Kosh 

  24. RRSK initial period - 5 years - from 2017-18 to 2021-22  - Corpus of Rs.1 Lakh Crore

  25. RRSK extended - another 5 years from 2022-23 to 2026-27 (on the recommendations of NITI Aayog)

  26. RRSK  - 2022-23 - Rs.13895 Crores, 2023-24 - Rs.12470 Crores and 2024-25 - Rs.12800 Crores

  27. NITI stands for National Institution for Transforming India (old name of Planning Commission)

  28. ICF Coaches - Production stopped from the year 2018

  29. Switch over to LHB Coaches - 2018-19 year onwards 

  30. LHB stands for  Linke - Hofmann-Busch

  31. UTS rails stands for Ultimate Tensile Strength rails 

  32. PSC stands for Pre - stressed Concrete (sleepers) 

  33. 70% of IR Track - upgraded with 60 kg Rails 

  34. ITMS stands for Integrated Track Monitoring System 

  35. Sigma symbol Σ   - Provision of retro- reflective sigma symbol - on two OHE masts prior to Signal  - To warn Loco Pilot about the signal ahead when visibility is low due to foggy weather 

  1. Running Rooms 

  • Air conditioning

  • Separate rooms for female crew

  • Good quality subsidised meals  

  • Has option to get meals prepared of crew choice by providing ingredients

  • RO water 

  1. CR - Central Railway - First place - NFR in 2023-24    - Rs. 122 Crores 

  2. ECoR - East Coast Railway - FY 2023-24 - Highest freight loading - 256 Million Tonnes 

  3. ECoR - East Coast Railway - FY 2023-24 - First Zone to cross 250 Million Tonnes ( 256 Million Tonnes)

  4. Kolkata Metro - India’s First Metro line under River (Hooghly)

  5.  NR - Northern Railway - Largest Zonal Railway in India 

  6. NR - Northern Railway - 14 minute miracle - Cleaning of Vande Bharat trains for timely cleaning and turnaround of trains. 

  7. HOG stands for Head On Generation 

  8. Eat Right Station - certified by FSSAI 

  9. FSSAI stands for Food Safety & Standard Authority of India

  10. NMR - Nilgir Mountain Railway - UNESCO World Heritage site (in Southern Railway) 

  11. Shunya (zero) plus Label  for NZEB & NZPB   - based on Energy consumption - by BEE 

  12. BEE - Bureau of Energy Efficiency, a statutory body under Ministry of Power - responsible for improvement of energy efficiency in India. .

  13.  NZEB stands for Net Zero Energy Building 

  14. NPEB stands for Net Positive Energy Building

  15. HMIS stands for Hospital Management Information System (Part of ABDM - Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) 

  16. HMIS - First launched in SCR - South Central Railway  (implemented 11 modules)

  17. SER - South Eastern Railway - handles 13 % of Total freight traffic with only 4 % of Total Route Kilometers. 

  18.  Kolkata - Hqrs of 3 Zonal Railways i.e., ER - Eastern Railway, SER - South Eastern Railway and Kolkata Metro

  19.  Shunya labeling for Net Zero and Net Positive Buildings: To widen the scope of the Building Labelling Programme based on Energy Consumption, BEE is introducing a Labeling programme for Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) and Net Positive Energy Buildings (NPEB). The programme is named as “Shunya” Labelling Programme. Shunya is the Hindi meaning of Zero (0) thus making it suitable to label the NZEB and NPEB buildings as Shunya.

  20. The rationale for the programme: In line with the commitments made by Hon’ble Prime Minister in COP26 held in Glassgow in 2021, that India will aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070, it is recommended to promote the NZEB and NPEB in India. The Shunya Programme aims to identify and commemorate the building owners of NZEB and NPEB by providing a label for their contribution to fulfil the aforesaid commitments made by PM.

  21. Brief description of the Shunya labelling: Two types are Labels are proposed, one is the Shunya Label for NZEBs while another is for NPEBs i.e., Shunya+ (Shunya Plus). For this programme the buildings having 10 ≤ EPI ≤ 0 kWh/m2/year, will be awarded by Shunya Label, while the buildings having EPI < 0 kWh/m2/year will be awarded by Shunya+ label. The programme will encourage the building owners and promotors to make energy-efficient buildings and further making improvements to make it net zero or net positive energy buildings.

  22. Link to download the schedule for the Shunya Labelling programme is given below:

  23. BLW - Banaras Loco Works - India’s largest multi gauge, multi traction Locomotive manufacturing unit with a single compact assembly line. 

  24. BLW - 10000th Loco - December 2023

  25. RTIS - Real Time Information System 

  26. Loco Building Factory - The old name of CLW - Chittaranjan Locomotive Works 

  27. CLW - First 1500 V DC Locomotive named Lokmanya in 1961

  28. CLW - First Broad Guage (BG) 25 kv AC Electric Locomotive WAG - 1 named Bidhan in 1963

  29. ELAAU - Electric Loco Assembly & Ancillary Unit of CLW at Dankuni - Produced 101 freight Locomotive in FY 2023-24 

  30. First twin WAG9HC ( 12000 HP - Horse Power) Locomotive - The Most powerful locomotive in Indian Railways

  31. Indian Railways figures  - 31st March 2024 

  • 65861 Route KMS of BG - Broad Gauge tracks 

  • 2.2 Crores Passengers - Every day 

  • 4 Million Tonnes - Every day 

  • 22000 trains  

  1. UVAM stands for Unified Vendor Approval Module 

  2. PLW - Patiala Loco Works - New Name of DMW - Diesel loco modernisation Works in 2003  - a diamond Production Unit of Indian Railways (DCW - Diesel Component Works in 1981)

  3.  DETC - Diesel Electric Tower Car

  4. DPRS stands for Distributed Power Rolling Stock  (coaches for Vande Bharat, Amrit Bharat & MEMU trains) 

  5. RSPB stands for Railway Sports Promotion Board 

  6. SPIC stands for Self Propelled Inspection Car 

  7. Parakh - a Self propelled 4 axle vehicle 

  8. PAUT stands for Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing system 

  9. WILD stands for Wild Impact Load Detector 

  10. Dedicated Test Track - India’s first high speed train test track - developed by RDSO  - between Gudha-Thathana Maithri to Nawa stations in Jodhpur Division of NWR - North Western Railway 

  11. RWF - Rail Wheel Factory - New name of WAP - Wheels & Axle Plant at Bangalore. 

  12. Railwire - Retail Broadband service of RCIL  - Railtel Corporation of India Limited. 

  13. E-Office - implemented by Railtel in Indian Railways 

  14. E-Office developed by NIC - National Informatics Centre

  15. Bogibeel Bridge - India’s longest rail cum road bridge 

  16. REMC - a subsidiary of RITES  - covers 70% energy requirements of Indian Railways 

  17. REMC stands for Railway Energy Management Company 

  18. RITES stands for Rail India Technical & Economic Services

  19. By year 2030 - Target to become Green Railways by IR 

  20.   DFCCIL stands for Dedicated Freight Corridor of India Limited 

  21. OCC of WDFC - Ahmedabad 

  22. OCC stands for Operations Control Center 

  23. EDFC - Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor - 100% completed - From Ludhiana, Punjab to Sonnager, Bihar 

  24. As per Economic Survey - One rupee investment in Indian Railways would increase the economy wide output by Rupees Five. 

  25. Year 2047 - India’s target to become Developed Country 

  26. Present logistics cost - 14% of GDP - Gross Domestic Product . Target to bring it down to single digit i.e., 8% 

Applications developed by CRIS - Centre for Railway Information Systems, New Delhi

  1. WAMS - Workshop Accounts Management 

  2. FOIS - Freight Operations Information System 

  3. COA - Control Office Application 

  4. ICMS - Integrated Coaching Information System 

  5. ESB stands for Enterprise Service Bus  (for IT applications) 

  6. CMS - Crew Management System 

  7. IREPS - Indian Railways E Procurement System 

  8. E stands for Electronic 

  9. NTES - National Train Enquiry System 

  10. HRMS - Human Resource Management System 

  11. TMS - Track Management System 

  12. WECRS - Web Enabled Coaching Refund System 

  13. IRGVAP - IR Geo Video Application Platform 

  14. GSTM - Goods & Service Tax Module 

  15. IIG - India Investment Grid 

  16. NIP portal - National Infrastructure Pipeline 

  17. HHT - Hand Held Terminal (for TTEs in Trains) 

  18. CVVR - Crew Voice & Video Recording system 

  19. RDAS - Railway Driver Assistance System 

  20. CVMS - Central Video Management System 

  21. e-Dhrishti - Dashboard for Indian Railways

  22. IRMS - Indian Railway Management Service ( 8 Indian Railway services are subsumed into IRMS)  

  23. IRMS First batch - 2022 year 

  24. DG - Director General of NAIR - National Academy of Indian Railways - ex - officio Special Secretary to Govt of India to whom other 7 CTIs report adminstratively

  25. NAIR - Apex CTI - Centralised Training Institute 

  26. MZTI - Multi - disciplinary Zonal Training Institue 

  27. BTC - Basic Training Centre 

  28. STC - Supervisors Training Centre 

  29. MDTI - Multi - disciplinary Divisional Training Centre 

  30. STC - Supervisor Training Centre 

  31. NAIR - 1925 as Transportation school at Chandausi and later shifted to Dehradun in 1932 as RSC - Railway Staff College .  Shifted to present campus (Pratap Vilas Palace) at Vadodara in 1952

  32. CBT stands for Centralised Computer Based Test 

  33. NAIR - successfully conducted 5 CBTs for 70% Selection & LDCE in IR

Special Operations of RPF - Railway Protection Force.  

  1. NanheFaristey” Identifying and rescuing children 

  2.  “Amanat” - : Many passengers forget to take all their belongings in a rush to board the train or leave the train/station. Under this operation RPF personnel help in securing such belongings and restore them to the rightful owner.

  3.  “Jeevan Raksha” -  There are incidents wherein passengers in hurry try to board/de-board a moving train, slip and fall with the risk of coming under the wheels of the train. There are other instances where people under distress try to commit suicide by deliberately coming in front of a running train. Under this operation RPF personnel risking their own lives tries to rescue the lives of others.

  4.  ‘Rail Suraksha’ - Protection & Security of Railway Property.

  5.  ‘Yatri Suraksha’ - Security and safe travel of passengers through the railways.

  6. Operation“Mahila Suraksha”: Safety and security to lady passengers travelling alone or with minors by long distance trains. 

7. Operation “SEWA”: Assists the elderly citizens, women, physically disabled and sick/injured persons in their travel through trains and services associated therewith i.e.providing other amenities like Wheelchairs, Stretcher, medical help, providing ambulance, medicine and infant food etc.

8. “Satark” - Recovery of Tobacco product, liquor product, recovery of FICN/Unaccounted gold/unaccounted cash/Unaccounted other precious metal/ smuggle goods/ Arms & Ammunitions/ explosives and recovery of banned medicines.

9. “NARCOS” - Drive against smuggling of Narcotics through railways.

10. “Matrishakti” - Help pregnant women who go into labor during their train journeys. 11. Uplabdh - Intensive and continuous action against persons involved in touting (unauthorised carrying on of business of procuring & supply of railway tickets).

12. ‘SamayPalan’ - Maintenance of punctuality of trains and to curb the menace of unauthorized chain pulling and other obstructions in the movement of trains.

13. ‘Jan Jagaran’ - Awareness programs for railway passengers and railway users are made by distributing leaflets, pasting stickers, performing nukkad nataks, publicity through print media, electronic media & social media and announcements through PA - Public Address systems.

14. ‘Sanraksha’ - Action is being taken against the criminals involved in pelting stones on the moving train, carrying inflammable or crackers in the train etc.

15. ‘AAHT (Action against Human Trafficking)’ - Fight against Human Trafficking. 

16. ‘Vyavashtha’: Establishing Law & Order on certain special occasions i.e. Kumbh Mela, other Melas/fairs, Rail Roko & other agitation, RRB exam/other recruitments etc.

17. ‘Janaadesh’ - Ensuring free and fair elections and to stop any unfortunate incidents during assembly/parliamentary elections.

18. ‘Bhoomi’: Assists the sister departments of Railways in clearing the railway land from illegal encroachment.

19. ‘Sahyog’ - Provide assistance in conducting special drives i.e. ticket checking, drives at unmanned Level Crossing gates, drives to enforce COVID protocol and assistance for cleanliness drives to the concerned departments of railways.

20. ‘Dusra’ - Action against the menace of unauthorized hawking and vending in Railway premises and in trains.

21. ‘WILEP’: Stringent action against smuggling of Wildlife, animal parts and forest products. 

22. ‘Rail Prahari’ - Acts as sentinels (soldiers) on rail and helps state police/law enforcing agencies in detection of serious cases reported from the respective areas under this operation.

23. ‘Saathi’ - Several community outreach programmes are planned particularly in areas adjacent to railway tracks engaging them in employment. Proper training has been conceptualized for them associating PSUs through their Social Responsibility forums.

24. ‘Dignity’ - Rescue of adults including women in need of care and protection who were found run away, abandoned, drug addict, destitute, kidnapped, left behind, missing, medical assistance, fallen down and are mentally disordered.

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