Traffic Cash Witness
2016 Station Accounts without books
-5 marks
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From
Traffic (Commercial) dept
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Deputed
to witness all operations connected with the remittances from the time the cash
safes are made over to Cashier or his representative till the cash has been
counted.
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required to protect the interests of Station staff
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They
should not assist the work of counting the cash, except to help the station
staff in case of discrepancy.
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Sign
the counterfoils of the CR Notes (Cash Remittance Notes) received with the
Station earnings.
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See
that the entries of CR Notes are correctly made in the Cash Office Records (
Traffic Cash Check Sheet)
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The
cash safes should be opened one at a time personally by the Traffic Cash
Witness, Cash office representative and RPF/GRP. Locks and Seals of all the Safes to be
examined.
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Register
of cash bags (A-917) - maintained by both Cash office and Cash Witness. All
bags bring out from the Cash Safes are entered in that Register duly read out
Station Name and painted number.
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After
all the columns in the Register of Bags are filled and signed by Cash witness,
Cash office representative & RPF/GPF.
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The
next cash safe should not be opened until this procedure has been completed in
respect of the cash safe in hand.
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Any discrepancies should be brought to the notice of Commercial and
Accounts officers for further investigations. But short receipt of cash bags
are immediately informed to DRM, Chief Cashier, Traffic Accounts officer along
with concerned Station.
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Till the last moment i.e., counting, checking of empty bags (for any
left over cash) etc, Traffic Cash witness should be present.
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To
avoid the above lengthy procedure and laborious manual work involved, the
Railways are already moving towards Doorstep banking.
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