Railway Accounts Department Examinations

Monday, April 29, 2024

CoA - Control Office Application

 CoA  - Control Office Application


Website Link of CoA: https://cris.org.in/loadpage?page=proCOA 


  • CoA stands for Control Office Application 

  • Implemented in all 68 Divisions in Indian Railways 

  • TSR - Train Signal Register - 600 plus locations 

  • TSR - A Register kept at Railway stations to record the actual movement of the Trains.  


Need of CoA

  •  To automate the Control Rooms i.e., nerve centre of Train operations. 

  • To ensure systematic control, monitoring & fluidity of train movements 24/7

  • To capture Train movements real time. 

  • To provide an analytical DSS (Decision Support System) tool for improving operational efficiency. 


Salient features: 

  • Requires the Controllers to enter data related to the train operations (as they receive information from the control points or stations) 

  • Charts the running of the train in a section 

  • Generates the advance forecast based on various operational parameters. 

  • To order trains, view all possible routes, divert or re-route trains. 

  • Has the facility for capturing and viewing details of composition of the train, details of the crew and the Locomotive. 

  • Shows details of line occupancy, caution orders etc. 

  • Designed to facilitate its integration with other applications such as FOIS, ICMS, NTES, PAM, RTIS, REMMLOT and CMS. 

  • Train BPC (Break Power Certificate), Caution Order, Train Order, Regulation, Stabling, Yarding, Train schedule modification, Consist and Train Modification (like Diversion) is shared in between respective applications.

  • TSR data is sent to the CoA divisional server. Further, this data updates in NTES, FOIS and ICMS through CAS server.



CoA Advantages:


  • Removes drudgery (hard work) of the manual system of drawing control charts with various colour pencils. 

  • Trains running information - available - to take decisions quickly 

  • Quick reference tools such as Blocks, Cautions, loco details, crew details, stabled trains and siding position reduces retrieval time of information. 

  •  Paperless operations. Helping a green environment. 

  • Accurate train movement information helps NTES - National Train Enquiry System


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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Reclassification of Capital Expenditure - Office equipment, Furniture & Fixtures, ICT

 


Reclassification of Capital Expenditure


Source: Click for RB Letter No. 2023/F(X)-I/33/Misc/4 dated 06.04.2023


  • As of now, the office equipment, furniture, fixtures, computers etc are treated as Revenue expenditure irrespective of its value. 


  • However as per the Railway Board Letter under reference, wherever exceeds threshold limits, they will be treated as Capital Expenditure instead of Revenue Expenditure. The details are as follows: 


Items

Exceeding Threshold Limit  (Either of two)

Chargeable to Capital Expenditure under Plan Head ______

Value

Useful life

Office equipment and Furniture & Fixtures

1 Lakh

3 Years

PH 41 - M&P (Machinery & Plant) 

or

PH 64 - OSW (Other Specified Works)

Or

Relevant PH

Computers - Hardware & Software and Telecommunication devices

1 Lakh

3 Years

PH 17 - Computerisation

Or

Relevant Plan Head

Vehicles

(Office or otherwise)

Irrespective of value

Irrespective of useful life

PH 41 - M&P


Notes: 


  1. The items of Office equipment and Furniture & Fixtures, ICT equipment as Capital expenditure (i.e., exceeding threshold limit as above)  - Procured either as part of the Sanctioned Work or through Lumpsum provision. 

  2. ICT stands for Information & Communication Technology

Monday, March 11, 2024

Constitutional Provisions (Articles) - Indian Railways

 

Constitutional Provisions (Articles) - Indian Railways


SN

Picture

Article

Description

1

112 

Annual Financial Statement (Budget)

2

113 (1)

Charged Expenditure

3

113 (2)

Voted Expenditure

4

114 (1)

Appropriation Bill

5

115

Supplementary, additional or excess grants

6

116

Vote On Account (VOA), Vote Of Credit & Exceptional Grants

7

120

Language to be used in the Parliament

8

210

Language to be used in the Legislature

9

266 (1)

Consolidated Fund of India

10

267 

Contingency Fund of India

11

266 (2)

Public Account of India

12

343

Official Language of the Union

13

344

Commission (OL) & Committee of Parliament on OL

14

345

Official Language or Languages of the States - Can adopt one or more languages as Official Language

15

346

Language for the time being authorized as Official Language will be used for communication between one State & Other State and between a State & the Union

16

347

Special provision relating to language spoken by a Section of the population of a State

17

348

Language to be used in the Supreme Court and High Courts 

(Acts, Bills, Ordinances, orders, regulations, and bye-laws issued under the Constitution shall be in the English language)

18

349

Special Procedure for the enactment of laws relating to languages 

19

350

Language to be used in the Representations for redressal of grievances by an Individual (citizen) - Any language can be used 


(for Central Govt employees - Only English or Hindi)

20

351

Development of Hindi Language - Directives