MACP - Modified Assured Career Progression

 

MACP - Modified Assured Career Progression 

• W.e.f  01.09.2008.

• Old ACP - Assured Career Progression Scheme - 09.08.1999 to 31.08.2008.   

• Assurance - Minimum 3 Financial upgradations in their service  

• Intervals - 10 years, 20 years & 30 years of qualifying service. 

• The upgradation is to the next Level in Pay-Matrix.

• Financial upgradation is purely personal to the employee and not according to seniority. 

• If the employee gets regular promotion as per seniority/merit such promotion will be counted against the three financial up-gradations.

• If the employee is stagnated in any grade for 10 years, he will be given financial up-gradation in the next higher level.

• Granting financial up-gradation is subject to eligibility.

• Eligibility: Last 3 years APAR - Minimum grading is “Very Good” .

• Free from DAR/Vigilance/Criminal cases and should not be undergoing any penalty.  

• Can employees refuse to take the Regular Promotion?   

• Before MACP  - Yes.  But they are not considered for financial upgradation for that grade.  

• After MACP  - Yes.  

• Pay fixation and option benefits are admissible as per the rules.

• No change in the Designation. 

• No change in the Present post. 

• No change in the responsibilities. 

• Service rules are applicable to the present post only for all benefits. 

• In case the granting of financial upgradation under the MACP scheme is postponed for reasons attributable to the employee, future upgradations under this scheme will also get postponed.    

Key points for MCQ: 

1. MACP - From 01.09.2008  

2. MACP stands for Modified Assured Career Progression

3. ACP - 09.08.1999 to 31.08.2008 

4. Minimum 3 Financial Upgradations 

5. Intervals - 10, 20 & 30 years 

6. APARs considered - Last 3 years 

7. Minimum grading - Very Good 

8. No change in Present post, Designation or responsibilities. 

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AEMG - Alternative Employment on Medical Grounds

 

AEMG - Alternative Employment on Medical Grounds 

• Every employee should always be medically fit for the post he/she is holding.

• If any employee is found medically not fit to hold the present post, he/she should not be continued in that post and should be given an alternative suitable post.

• As it takes some time to identify suitable alternative posts, such employees will be placed in supernumerary posts and will be paid a salary.

• PWD Act: Medically de-categorized employees should be provided alternative appointments in suitable posts in the same grade without monetary loss duly considering the provisions of section 47 of PWD Act 1995.  (Persons with Disabilities Act)

• First, the suitable post should be identified in his/her department.

• If no suitable post is identified, then that employee can be considered for absorption in other departments.

• They should not be absorbed in lower-grade posts even on their request.

• If the employee wants to take voluntary retirement it can be accepted. 

• Committee:  A committee of three officers (Sr.DPO, concerned Dept Officer, and Officer from any other Dept) as nominated by DRM in the division should conduct screening of medically de-categorized employees and suggest suitable alternative posts for them.

• With the approval of DRM, the medically de-categorized employees will be absorbed in the recommended alternative post.

• They can also ask for any suitable alternative post. Their request can be considered if vacancies are available in such posts.

• Absorption in suitable posts should be done expeditiously to avoid wastage of manpower and unnecessary financial implications.

• Typing Test: Medically de-categorized employees on absorption in the clerical cadre are exempted from passing the Typing test.

• 30% of Basic Pay: Pay of Medically de-categorized Running staff on absorption in suitable alternative posts should be fixed by adding 30% of basic pay as an element of running allowance.

• Personal Pay: If there is no Cell equal to that amount, pay should be fixed in the lower cell and the difference in amount should be shown separately as Personal Pay and it will be observed in future increments.

• Security Dept: Medically de-categorized RPF (Railway Protection Force) / RPSF (Railway Protection Special Force) personnel shall be absorbed into the ministerial cadre of the Security Department. If it is not possible due to the non-availability of vacancies, they can be considered in any suitable post in other departments.

• The service rendered in the previous post will always count for all purposes, including fixing seniority in the absorbed post.

• Employees who get recommendations from medical authorities for transfer to other posts on medical grounds will not have the above benefits. Their cases are dealt with under Interdepartmental request transfer rules.

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Inventory Control - Methods

 

Inventory Control - Methods

 

Method	Stands for	Based on
ABC	A / B / C	Pareto principle
FSN	Fast / Slow / Non   - Moving	On the level of consumption (moving), frequency of demands and their utility
GOLF	Government / Ordinary / Local / Foreign - Source	On the source of supplies
HML	High / Medium / Low - cost per unit	On the unit cost of items
SDE	Scarce / Difficult / Easily - availability of item	On the criteria of availability of item
SOS	Seasonal / Off seasonal - item	On the nature of supplies
VED	Vital / Essential / Desirable - items	On the criticality in end use
XYZ	High / Medium / Low - Inventory value	On inventory value of items at a given time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tenders & Contracts Booklet - Issued by IRIMEE Jamalpur

Tenders & Contracts Booklet issued by IRIMEE Jamalpur

MSOP - Model Schedule Of Powers - Part A - Works Matters - Notes by Shri Chandra Sekhar M

 

Click for MSOP - Part A - Works Matters

DFCCIL - Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

 

DFC - Dedicated Freight Corridor - A Game changer

Source: DFCCIL

 DFC Video Link

Hqrs: New Delhi

2006 October - Incorporation of DFCCIL (Schedule”A”) Government Company, as SPV – Special Purpose Vehicle, is a wholly owned company of the Ministry of Railways registered under Company Act 1956. 

·         ·         Estimated Project Cost - Rs. 82,000 Crores (Approx)

·    The Eastern & western dedicated freight corridors entail an investment of 12 billion dollars,

·         Eastern Corridor - World Bank Loan of 1.86 Billion dollars (Rs. 13000 Crores)

·         Western Corridor - JICA (Japanese International Cooperation Agency) loan of 5.2 Billion Dollars (Rs. 37000 Crores)

·         The balance between Project Cost and Loan is borne by Govt of India through Equity.

Need of DFC

·         Eastern  Corridor  ( EDFC ) from Ludhiana ( Punjab ) to Dankuni (Near Kolkata)

·         Western Corridor (WDFC) from Jawaharlal Nehru Port, Mumbai to Dadri 

near Delhi.

·         The Delhi-Mumbai rail route and the Delhi –Howrah rail route are highly congested at present.

·          IR has lost a significant portion of its Freight business to the Road sector and has planned to recover the market share through DFC.

 

Beginning:

·          Golden quadrilateral connecting 4 Metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and its  diagonals  1. Delhi to Chennai and 2. Mumbai to Kolkata – Total route length of 10,000 Kms –

 

            Share of Golden quadrilateral at present

Route	Passenger traffic	Freight traffic
16 %	52 %	58 %

• Not only this, the National highways along these corridors comprising 0.5% of the road network carried almost 40% of the road freight.

·         Line capacity varying between 120 % to 150 % in Eastern Corridor (Delhi to Kolkata) and in Western Corridor (Delhi to Mumbai) – Highly saturated

·          IR lost its share in freight traffic from 83 % in 1950-51 to 30 % in 2018-19

·         To meet the growth of Indian Economy in recent decades and to garner the share of Freight transport, the Govt mooted the conception of Dedicated Freight Corridors

·         Beginning step in the above direction is the Presentation of Railway Budget in 2005-06.

·         2006 – A SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) named Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India limited was incorporated as a company under the Companies Act, 1956/2013.

Mission:

·         To build a Corridor with appropriate technology

·         To regain market share of Freight transport

·         To set up Multimodal logistic parks along the DFC to provide complete solution to customers

·         To adopt the Railways as the most environmental friendly transport mode 

Salient Features

·         Chairman : De facto Chairman, Railway Board

·         Hqrs: New Delhi

·         Total route length : 3360 kms

·         Western Corridor  : 1504 Kms  From Dadri (UP) to JNPT -Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (Mumbai)

·         Eastern Corridor    : 1856 Kms From Ludhiana(Punjab) to Dankuni (West Bengal)

·         The Railway’s share expected to go up from the present level 30 % to 45% in the Total transport sector

·         It is exclusively for Freight trains.  So it should be possible to run time-tabled trains with guaranteed transit time.

·         Last mile connectivity – by tying up with truck operators. So that offered door to door services to the Customers.

·         Setting up of Multimodal logistics parks along the Corridor to facilitate all kinds of value addition from packaging. Retailing, labelling, pelletizing etc.

·         Design-Build Lump-sum Contract strategy – Construction of DFC. Being a design build contract bidder is supposed to quote lump-sum contract price for the total work including design, construction, testing, commissioning and liability during defect liability period. It is akin to EPC  Projects. Click for Article on EPC in the blog.

·         Western corridor will cater double stack containers on electrified traction, which is first in the world

·         RO-RO – Roll On Roll Off traffic – Western Corridor  - to attract non-bulk traffic particularly at short lead to avoid cost of transhipment

Latest update on May 2022

• To be completed by June 2023 (90 % of DFC). That is 2750 RKM (Route Kilo Meters) of the Eastern DFC and Western DFC.  

• The initial plan was to make both DFCs operational by June 2022-end, but the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent slowing down of work at sites have resulted in the deadlines being pushed ahead.

 

• Once completed, Coal, Food grain, and Export-Import Freight movement are expected to get a boost. 

 

• Managing Director of DFCCIL - Shri Ravindra Kumar Jain 

 

• Presently - 100 trains running on WDFC and 60 trains on EDFC.  Once completed the entire project, it may increase to 150 trains and 100 trains respectively.  

  

• The biggest gain is that the freight movement from ports in Gujarat to New Delhi has been cut down by a day.  

• EDFC  - 1875 RKM  From Ludhiana (Punjab) to Dankuni (West Bengal) covering Punjab, Haryana, UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand, West Bengal. 

 

• WDFC - 1506 RKM.  From Dadri (UP) to Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Mumbai) covering UP, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. 

 

• Average speed - EDFC - 65 km per hour

 

• Average speed - WDFC - 41 km per hour 

• Estimated Cost - 1,24,000 Crores. 

 

• Cumulative CAPEX (up to 31.03.2022) - Rs. 89,342 Cr 

Key points for MCQ

1. DFCCIL stands for Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

2. Western DFC - From Dadri (UP) to JN Port (Mumbai) 

3. EDFC - From Ludhiana (Punjab) to Dankuni (West Bengal) 

4. WDFC - 1506 RKM

5. EDFC - 1875 RKM

6. RKM stands for Route Kilo Meters 

7. DFCCIL Hqrs - New Delhi

8. Total Cost - Rs. 1,24,000 Crores 

Relationship with Indian Railways:

·         Concessioner is Indian Railways and Concessionaire is DFCCIL

·         Period is 30 years (from commencement of operations)

·         Accept freight trains on its track on payment of user charge called TAC – Track Access Charge by Indian Railways and other Private Train operators.

·         Land will be acquired by IR under Railway Amendment Act, 2008 and leased to DFCCIL

·         Financing the Project: Loan from External bilateral/ Multilateral funds recd via Ministry of Railways and equity contribution from the Ministry of Railways.

·         Main source of Revenue to DFCCIL is TAC – Track Access Charge

·         TAC consists of Fixed and Variable components. Variable component based on volume of traffic in terms of 000 GTKMs

·         Cost of construction of Double Line electrified Track – Rs. 18  Crores Per KM (in IR , it is Rs.12 Crores per KM).  The reasons for increasing cost are

 

A.      Electric traction of 2 x25 KV, 58hz single phase AC

B.      Double line automatic signaling

C.      Standard of loading of 32.5 Tonnes Axle Load

D.      Will have grade separation from IR. Existing lines in the form of flyovers to ensure free flow of trains on both the systems.

Advantages:

1.       Bring about a paradigm shift in Freight operations

2.       Reduction in the unit cost of transportation.

3.       Higher speeds

4.       Better turnaround of Wagons

5.       Act as Catalyst for the Development of Industry and Areas along the Corridor.

6.       Increased payload to tare ratio (by higher axle load wagons)

7.       Improved SEC - Specific Energy Consumption

8.       Ultimate objective is to reduce the O & M Costs (Operation & Maintenance)

9. DFC will save more than 450 million ton of CO2 in first 30 years of operation.

 

·         Coming up Freight Corridors are

 

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OCC - Operation Control Centre 

WDFC 

• At Ahmedabad 

• Operationalised in March 2023 

• Controls entire WDFC’s Train operations, Signalling, and Power Supply and monitor the health of Rolling Stock & Track Safety. 

• It is equipped with advanced technologies and new applications for Train operations. 

• SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition operations 

• TPC - Traction Power Controller operations will be done from the OCC 

•  Nerve-centre of WDFC - 1506 KMs - Double Track Electrified 2 x 25 KV From Mumbai JNPT (Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust) to Dadri via Vadodara, Ahmedabad & Rewari, covering the States of Haryana, UP, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. 

• Green Building

• Serve the Round-the-Clock 

EDFC

• Going to be a launch 

• OCC - for EDFC - Prayagraj, UP - World’s Second Largest OCC  

• Command Centre for the entire route length of 1856 KMs of EDFC 

• Green Building rating of GRIHA4 - equipped with Solar power and rainwater harvesting 

• 1560 Sq Meter with a video wall of more than 90 metres. 

•  The Divyang-friendly one 

• Modern interiors, Best-in-class acoustics, ergonomically designed to suit the needs of the Traffic Controllers 

• Integrated SCADA with TMS (Train Management System) - will enable the Traction Controllers to monitor, control as well as remotely operate power supply equipment at Traction Sub Stations, Sectioning and Parallelling posts for the Entire Network. 

•  Under the Make in India or Atma Nirbhar initiative, the system has been developed by Alstom, and supported by their design teams in Bangalore. 

• EDFC - 1875 KMs - Two distinct segments: 

• Double Track - 1409 KMs - Dankuni to Khurja 

• Single Track - 447 KMs - Khurja to Dadri   

              DFCCIL Network 

State	WDFC	EDFC	Total	% Share
UP	19	1078	1097	32
Rajasthan	567	-	567	16
Gujarat	565	-	565	16
Haryana	177	72	249	7
Bihar	-	239	239	7
West Bengal	-	203	203	7
Jharkhand	-	195	195	6
Maharashtra	178	-	178	6
Punjab	-	88	88	3
Total	1506	1875	3381	100

Key Points for MCQ  

1. DFCCIL stands for Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited

2. OCC stands for Operations Control Centre 

3. OCC - WDFC - Ahmedabad

4. OCC - EDFC - Prayagraj 

5. OCC at Prayagraj - going to be launch - World’s Second Largest one

6. OCC at Ahmedabad - Operationalised in March 2023 

7. SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition  

8. DFCCIL - 3381 KMs

9. WDFC - 1506 KMs 

10. EDFC - 1875 KMs  

11. UP covers - Highest Network of DFCCIL - 32 % 

12.  DFCCIL - Incorporated - in 2006 -  as a Schedule A Company under the Companies Act, 1956 

MCQ on DFCCIL

1. Headquarters of DFCCIL 

Answer 1: Mumbai

Answer 2: Kolkata

Answer 3: New Delhi

Answer 4: Bangalore

2. DFCCIL is a ______ 

Answer 1: Registered Company

Answer 2: Government Organisation

Answer 3: Private company

Answer 4: subsidiary of World Bank

3. Target for completion of Dedicated Freight Corridor 

Answer 1: 2022 December

Answer 2: 2021 December

Answer 3: 2023 June

Answer 4: 2024 December

4. Estimated project cost (approx) of DFC 

Answer 1: 1.24 lakh crore

Answer 2: 2.24 lakh crore

Answer 3: 3.24 lakh crore

Answer 4: 4.24 lakh crore

5. DFC project cost financed by _________ 

Answer 1: World Bank & LIC

Answer 2: JICA & LIC

Answer 3: World Bank and JICA

Answer 4: World Bank, JICA & Asian Development Bank

6. IR lost its share in freight traffic from ___ in 1950-51 to ____in 2018-19 

Answer 1: 83 % , 30 %

Answer 2: 95 % , 55 %

Answer 3: 83 % , 53 %

Answer 4: 63 % , 30 %

7. TAC stands for _______ (DFCCIL) 

Answer 1: Travelling Access Charge

Answer 2: Track Access Component

Answer 3: Track Access Charge

Answer 4: Track Activation Charge

8. DFCCIL established in the year 

Answer 1: 2006

Answer 2: 2016

Answer 3: 2010

Answer 4: 2012

9. Chairman of DFCCIL is 

Answer 1: Prime minister

Answer 2: Railway Minister

Answer 3: Member/Finance

Answer 4: CEO & Chairman, Railway Board

10. Dedicated Freight Corridor is meant for 

Answer 1: Passenger trains and Freight Trains

Answer 2: Exclusive for Freight Trains

Answer 3: Exclusive for Passenger Trains

Answer 4: Priority for Freight Trains. But can allow Passenger Trains

Answers;

1.  3

2.  1

3.  3

4.  1

5.  4

6.  1

7.  3

8.   1

9.  4

10.  2

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