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

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

25. ROR stands for Rail Over Rail 

26. 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 

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

28. TRC stands for Track Recording Cars 

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

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

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

32. OSOP stands for One Station One Product 

33. Women employees - Indian Railways - Approx 1 Lakh 

34. Viksit Bharat  by 2047 

35. RTC power stands for Round The Clock power 

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

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

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

39. GC stands for General Consultant 

40. PMS stands for Project Management Services 

41. 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

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

43. ABS stands for Automatic Block Signalling 

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

45. RGM stands for Rail Grinding Machine 

46. MLC stands for Manned Level Crossing 

47. UMLC stands for Un - Manned Level Crossing

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

49. 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 

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

51. DEMU stands Diesel Electric Multiple Unit 

52. ACWP stands for Automatic Coach Washing Plants 

53. Hungry for Cargo - Motto of IR 

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

55. 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)

56. BLW - Nodal Agency for RKVY 

57. Mission Karmayogi - NPCSCB

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

59. iGOT Karmayogi platform 

60. iGOT stands for Integrated Government Online Training 

61. AMTK stands for Accident per Million Train Kilometers 

62. AMTK - Index of Safety performance in IR 

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

64. RRSK stands for Rashtriya Rail Sanraksh Kosh 

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

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

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

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

69. ICF Coaches - Production stopped from the year 2018

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

71. LHB stands for  Linke - Hofmann-Busch

72. UTS rails stands for Ultimate Tensile Strength rails 

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

74. 70% of IR Track - upgraded with 60 kg Rails 

75. ITMS stands for Integrated Track Monitoring System 

76. 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 

77. 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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

84. HOG stands for Head On Generation 

85. Eat Right Station - certified by FSSAI 

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

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

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

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

90.  NZEB stands for Net Zero Energy Building 

91. NPEB stands for Net Positive Energy Building

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

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

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

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

96.  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.

97. 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.

98. 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.

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

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

101. BLW - 10000th Loco - December 2023

102. RTIS - Real Time Information System 

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

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

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

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

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

108. 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  

109. UVAM stands for Unified Vendor Approval Module 

110. 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)

111.  DETC - Diesel Electric Tower Car

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

113. RSPB stands for Railway Sports Promotion Board 

114. SPIC stands for Self Propelled Inspection Car 

115. Parakh - a Self propelled 4 axle vehicle 

116. PAUT stands for Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing system 

117. WILD stands for Wild Impact Load Detector 

118. 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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

125. REMC stands for Railway Energy Management Company 

126. RITES stands for Rail India Technical & Economic Services

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

128.   DFCCIL stands for Dedicated Freight Corridor of India Limited 

129. OCC of WDFC - Ahmedabad 

130. OCC stands for Operations Control Center 

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

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

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

134. 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

135. WAMS - Workshop Accounts Management 

136. FOIS - Freight Operations Information System 

137. COA - Control Office Application 

138. ICMS - Integrated Coaching Information System 

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

140. CMS - Crew Management System 

141. IREPS - Indian Railways E Procurement System 

142. E stands for Electronic 

143. NTES - National Train Enquiry System 

144. HRMS - Human Resource Management System 

145. TMS - Track Management System 

146. WECRS - Web Enabled Coaching Refund System 

147. IRGVAP - IR Geo Video Application Platform 

148. GSTM - Goods & Service Tax Module 

149. IIG - India Investment Grid 

150. NIP portal - National Infrastructure Pipeline 

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

152. CVVR - Crew Voice & Video Recording system 

153. RDAS - Railway Driver Assistance System 

154. CVMS - Central Video Management System 

155. e-Dhrishti - Dashboard for Indian Railways

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

157. IRMS First batch - 2022 year 

158. 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

159. NAIR - Apex CTI - Centralised Training Institute 

160. MZTI - Multi - disciplinary Zonal Training Institue 

161. BTC - Basic Training Centre 

162. STC - Supervisors Training Centre 

163. MDTI - Multi - disciplinary Divisional Training Centre 

164. STC - Supervisor Training Centre 

165. 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

166. CBT stands for Centralised Computer Based Test 

167. 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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