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1. Demand payable
2. New service/instrument of service
3. Vote on account
4. Dead stock
5. Remittance transactions
6. Unaccounted on invoices
7. Accounts office balance sheet
8. Custody stores
9. Appropriation bill
10. Approximate account current
11. Pro forma on cost
12. Urgency certificate
13. Cash in transit
14. Ways and means
15. Materials at site account
16. Stores in transit
17. Memo invoices
18. Open line works revenue
19. Workshop general register
20. Objectionable
21. Transfer transactions
22. Cash remittance note
23. Non-issue tickets
24. Handling bill
25. Goods cash book
26. General on cost
27. Machine prepared abstracts
28. Stock sheet
29. Railway convention committee
30. Wagon turn around
31. Joining time
32. Public accounts committee
33. Operational ratio
34. Inflated mileage
35. Transfer grant and packing allowance
36. Productivity test
37. Inked entries
38. Estimate committee
39. PNR number
40. Roneoed lists
41. Idle time
42. Depot transfer
43. Job cards and plus cards
44. Freight deposit scheme
45. Station to station rates
46. Dividend reliefs
47. Late tenders
48. Running allowance
49. Railway tariff enquiry committee
50. Last in first out
51. Supplementary demand
52. Demand for grants
53. Incentive
54. Error sheet
55. Under charged statement
56. Railway claims tribunal
57. Line capacity
58. Bin cards
59. Station outstanding
60. Limited tenders
61. Stock adjustment account
62. Capital at charge
63. Specific fuel consumption
64. Firm’s credit note 65. Inventory turnover ratio.
66. Imprest cash
67. Returned stores
68. Liquidated damages
69. Next below rule
70. Apportionment of goods earnings
71. Credit note
72. Container services
73. Deposit works
74. Corporate plan
75. Focal point bank system
76. Traffic suspense
77. Divisionalisation of stores
78. Advice of internal check
79. Appropriation accounts
80. Reserve price
81. Budget order
82. Price variation clause
83. Passenger classification
84. Asset register
85. Post check system
86. Calendar of returns
87. Equated track kilometer
88. Railway act 1989
89. Commissioner of railway safety
90. Railway service (conduct) rules
91. Permanent negotiation machinery
92. Staff benefit fund
93. Block account
1. DEMANDS
PAYABLE:
Demands payable is a suspense head of accounts
under the major head 3002, 3003 Indian Railway Commercial Strategic Lines –
Working Expenses.
This account serves the same purpose as
‘Traffic Account’ for earnings. It is one of the most important heads linking
Government Accounts with Railway Commercial Accounts.
This is the suspense head of accounts under
‘Deduct Working Expenses’. As the revenue account of each month records the
expenses of the month without taking into the account the extent to which these
have been liquidated, this head is intended to collect all the revenue
liabilities of the month and also records the actual discharge of such
liabilities when payment is made. Therefore subsequently the balance under this
head will always be a credit figure representing outstanding liabilities. A
separate is kept for each month.
a) The
balance of this account should be proved by details of items.
b) That
there are, no debit items.
c) That
outstanding balance under this head represents the revenue liabilities not
discharged.
2. NEW
SERVICE/INSTRUMENT OF SERVICE:
This item is not susceptible of an exact
definition and is governed by the case law decided by the Public Accounts
Committee from year to year.
It is the responsibility of the Railway Board
to ensure that the total expenditure against a grant voted by Parliament or
appropriations sanctioned by the President does not exceed the amount of grant
or of the appropriation. They are also required to watch that the money voted by
the parliament is spent on the purposes set out in the detailed estimate
presented to the Parliament along with the demands for grants and is not
utilized for expenditure on ‘New Service’ not contemplated in the Budget.
The Constitution of Indian provides that when
a need has arisen during current financial year for incurring expenditure upon
some ‘New Service’ not contemplated in the Annual financial statement (Budget),
a statement should be placed before both the houses of parliament for the
estimated amount of expenditure. The constitution does not define what is, ‘New
Service’ and only a case law settles the new service.
However, in the light of decision taken by CAG
and the Public Accounts Committee, the terms ‘New Service’ can be understand as
an expenditure arising out of a new policy decision not contemplated at the
time of budget. This may include new activity, or a new form of investment.
Some Examples of New Service are:
i)
Investments in private sector companies to be
made for the first time.
ii)
Additional grants-in-aid to private
institutions exceeding 10 lakhs. iii) Additional investments of more that
Rs.1 Crore in an existing departmental undertaking. iv) Setting
up of commissions of enquiry, if the expenditure is likely to exceed Rs.4 Lakhs.
v) Setting
up of a New Government Company.
3. VOTE
ON ACCOUNT:
The Constitution of India provides for the
grant of funds in advance by the Parliament for the period of a financial year
as a temporary measure in order to enable the Government to carry on the Public
Services from April of financial year till the passing of Appropriation
Bill. Such grants are known as “Vote on
Account”. Such an event occurs generally
when the formation of new Parliament is likely to take some time and the grants
for the entire year cannot be voted by the new house after general elections in
the country have been finalized.
4. DEAD
STOCK:
In office parlance, office equipment and furniture are known as
Dead Stock and dead stock
register is maintained giving Number of tables, chairs, almirahs
etc. and in whose possession.
Dead Surplus Stores
comprise items of stores which have not been issued for a period of 24 months
and are not likely to be utilized on any railway within the next 24
months. These are not marked in price
list.
5. REMITTANCE TRANSACTIONS
Remittance transactions are cleared through
the Reserve Bank of India. These are
transactions between Railway and other Government departments or State
Governments. The adjustment through the
issue of advices of clearance by various accounts officers and memo of
clearance (A420) issued by the Reserve Bank.
6. UNACCOUNTED FOR INVOICES
When the accountal of goods traffic was on
inward basis, in a comparison of outward and inward Abstracts, some invoices
were deleted which were either not accounted for in Inward or Outward Abstract.
Such items were abstracted
on a register to watch their accountal in subsequent months. With the introduction of mechanized procedure
on outward basis the invoices are brought to the Accounts office by couriers
and machine prepared abstract are made.
Machine prepared Abstracts are compared with the Inward delivery
book. No unaccounted for invoice is allowed
to exist.
7. ACCOUNTS OFFICE BALANCE SHEET
It is a statement prepared in the Accounts
office for taking the Carriage Bills(prepared in connection with Credit Notes
etc.) tendered at stations in lieu of cash into account and watching their
realization from the parties concerned as well as for incorporation into
accounts. The traffic cash received
otherwise than through station Balance Sheets (Eg: workshop profits,
advertisements fees, sale of grass coupons sold by the Tourist agents, suburban
tickets sold in the head quarters.
This Balance Sheet
corresponds to Bills Receivable account in the commercial book keeping and is
kept in the for A-2923, separately for coaching and goods traffic.
8. CUSTODY STORES
Stores chiefly consisting of items purchased
for the Mechanical Department for the construction of Rolling Stock sanctioned
under capital or Revenue programme are known as “Custody Stores”. Cost of these stores, is straight away
depicted to the works concerned but are kept under the safe custody of stores
department. With the sole idea that
these stores may not be lying unnecessarily in the workshops but may remain
with depot officer where there is proper arrangement for custody until these
are required.
9. APPROPRIATION BILL
After the Demands for Grants are voted by the
parliament approval of parliament to the withdrawal of the amounts so voted
from Consolidate Fund of India is sought through the Appropriation bill.
Under Article 114(3) of the Constitution of India, no amount can
be withdrawn from the
consolidated fund without such as Appropriation act passed by
parliament.
The process of detailed consideration of the
demands for grants is expected to be completed and Appropriation Bill passed
before the commencement of the Budget year.
10. APPROXIMATE ACCOUNT CURRENT:
A Statement of
receipts and expenditure for each month and from the commencement of the
financial year to the end of the month under such heads, as may be prescribed,
is sent to the Rly. Board in Form Appendix – XV, so as to reach them not later
that the 15th of the month following that to which the figures
relates (20th jan and 3rd may ) in the case of
Approximate Account Current for December and March respectively or by any other
dates as may be prescribed by the board.
The information should be posted by Air Mail
by name to the Office In-charge of the Accounts Branch of the Board’s Office if
in any case the statements cannot be sent on the due date by post, the
information contained therein is telegraphed to the Railway Board.
The
approximate account current is accompanied by the following statements
1.Statements comparing the approximate gross receipts and revenue
expenditure with the actuals of the corresponding period of the previous year
together with brief explanation for the variations.
2. Statement showing approximate receipts disbursement.
3.Credits booked in reduction of expenditure
under Capital and Revenue by Demands.
The
approximate account current received from the various railways are consolidated in the accounts branch of the
railway board and one approximate account is for the railway ministry. This account current is accompanied by the
consolidated statement expenditure in ENGLAND is sent to the finance ministry
for use in the consideration of ways and means of the central government and a
copy there of sent to the budget branch, Rly. Board. From the statement of Gross receipts and
revenue and expenditure in ENGLAND received from the various railways, a
consolidated statement of the entire railway ministry is prepared and sent to
budget branch to enable them to watch the progress of revenue and expenditure
against the sanctioned budge.
11. PROFORMA
ON COST
The
term ‘Proforma On Cost’ commonly known
as Indirect charges as intended to include all on costs which are not included
in the cost of work done in Railway Work
shop, but which are not included in commercial costing.
This
consist of charges, charged off direct to final heads of working expenses such
as general administration and depreciation or of charges not included in the
working expenses of the railway.
The
expenditure included in the pro-forma on cost are as under
1) Supervision
2) PF
contribution, S.C. to P.F and Gratuity of workshop staff
3) Contribution
to SBF
4) Repairs
and Maintenance 5) Interest
and Depreciation
6) Expenditure
on New Minor Works
12. URGENCY
CERTIFICATE
Some times the works are considered to be
urgently necessary to safe guard life or property or to repair damage to the
line caused by flood, accident or other unforeseen contingency so as to restore
or maintain through communication. In
such cases, the Railway administration cannot afford to observe the normal
procedure of
i)
Preparation of Estimates
ii)
Verification and sanction there of by the
competent authority iii) Allotment of necessary funds before
undertaking the work
The executive engineers are vested with powers
to authorize the commencement of such emergent works before sanction of the
detailed estimate and allotment of the necessary funds by competent
authorities. They are however required
to submit report at once through proper channel to the authority competent to
accord administrative approval to the work and to allot the requisite
funds. This report is called Urgency
certificate.
13. CASH
IN TRANSIT
Station take credit in their balance sheets
for cash realized by them in the month irrespective whether it is remitted to
and acknowledged by the cashier in that month or in subsequent month. Such station cash for which credit has been
allowed to the stations in one month but which has been received and included
in general books in the following month is called ‘Cash in Transit’.
However, the Railway Board vide their lr. No.
56AC/9/II/2A dated 30-06-1956 have decided that the cashiers books should be
kept open for three days after the close of the month to accommodate the cash
collected in the month but shroffed in the cash office in the following
month. So there should normally be no
amount under head ‘Cash in Transit’.
14. WAYS
AND MEANS
Aim at arranging that the cash balances of the
government shall at all times during the year be sufficient to meet the
requirements. “Ways and Means” deal with
Government revenue expenditure proper but also with all receipt and
disbursements which enter and leave the treasuries and affect the Government
cash balances.
A forecast is prepared for the opening
balances of the year and monthly incoming and outgoings of all kinds pertaining
to Government and it is arranged by adjusting one to other by raising a loan or
reducing amount of expenditure etc., that the estimated Govt. cash balances as
a whole shall never below a level during a year.
For this, careful watch is kept by review of
Ways and Means actions Vis-à-vis Actual progress of expenditure.
15. MATERIAL
AT SITE ACCOUNT
The stocks of certain classes of stores required
by the railways have often to be held by the users at the place of work.
1) To
avoid piece meal requisitioning of stores from the stores department.
2) For
use in emergencies to avoid delay and detentions in transportation and
3) In
some cases, in consideration of the special nature of the material stocked and
transportation of such material as
a) Permanent
way or other engineering materials in the custody of PWI/IOW
b) Locomotives,
Carriages Wagon parts and electrical stores in running sheds, Train Examining
stations, outdoor electrical chargeman.
c) Stores
in workshops waiting to be used in repairs or manufacture of locomotives,
carriages and wagons duplicates
d) Stores
which have been purchased for special works and charged to such works but (i)
left in the custody of stores department(CUSTODY STORES) (ii) Lying at the site
of work (Material at Site)
A separate account is maintained for the
material-at-site account. It should be
maintained in the Form-1441. Quarterly
and half yearly returns for each station are to be sent to the DRM for
prescribed amounts.
16. STORES
IN TRANSIT
The
term Stores in Transit literally means that the materials dispatched has not
been received at
destination and is still in transit.
Whether the stores issued during a month from
a depot are not received in the receiving depot in the same month such items
would not appear in the accounts of the receiving depot. The summaries of issues sent by the issuing
depot, the dates of accountal in the price ledger cannot be marked against such
items. At the close of the month such
unaccounted for items in the summaries of issues, are posted in a register
called the “Register of Stores in Transit” and then the items are received and
accounted at a later date, the credit is posted under the column for the month,
in which accounted against the relevant debit entry already posted there
in.
Separate Registers are maintained for each
depot and the balances lying are carefully analysed each month taking action
with the depot officer concerned for items outstanding for more than a
month. Special lists of items
outstanding for more than three months are sent to the COS for taking steps for
the clearance.
In the same way as under “Depot Transfer”,
there may be stores-in-transit under the purchases also where inspection and
receipt work is centralized. The credit
to purchases is noted from the receipt note quoted by such inspection section
while the contra debit appears only when the receiving depots accounts for it
is in its ledgers.
IT may be that the materials do not reach the
receiving depot in the same month. In
such cases, after completion of posting in priced ledgers, all outstanding
items in the summary of credits to purchases are posted in a “Stores in
Transit” registers to be maintained for purchases separately and the items
pursued for clearance.
A statement is prepared each month from each
stores-in-transit register and closing balance reconciled first with the
outstanding balance for the month, in the stores-in-transit register and later
with the general books.
17. MEMO
INVOICE
It is an invoice prepared from the particulars
available on the wagon labels, code
Marks, guidance etc., in the absence of through invoice, transit invoice or
railway receipt.
It is accounted for in the abstracts and
submitted to the accounts office. A copy
of the original received from the forwarding station is sent to the accounts
office with the remarks “Accounted for in PE through memo Invoice”. Separate pages are reserved for recording
memo deliveries.
18. OPEN
LINE WORKS REVENUE
It is one of Heads of distributing Railway
expenditure or allocation of expenditure. Open Line Works Revenue bears :
1) The
cost of all works falling under the limit of New Minor works including those
of staff amenities and staff quarters
costing not more than Rs. One lakh in each case.
2) The
cost of unremunerative operating improvements costing not more than ten lakh in
each case.
3) The
cost of such replacements and renewals are not chargeable to D.R.F or capital
of D.F
4) The
cost of dismantling, handling and shifting including profit of stores depot, in
respect of work under items 1,2 and 3 above.
5) Investment
in share capital of railway men cooperative stores upto 2500 per society.
Credits : This head is credited with the amount realized from the
disposal of an asset without being replaced on the debit of OLWR and also from
the released materials in the case of replacement of an asset at the cost
of OLWR.
19. WORKHOP
GENERAL REGISTER
The labour and stores sub-ledgers having been
totaled, the totals of (a) the labour charges and (b) Stores and Misc. charges
for the month relating to each work order should be transferred to workshop
general register and posted under the relevant work orders shop by shop care
being taken to see that no items are left out in posting.
In order to check the correctness of the
posting in the WGR, a summary of all sub ledgers is prepared in Form W-1662 and
amounts reconciled with that appearing in WGR.
The WGRs
should be revised monthly to see that all works shown there in are correct.
20. OBJECTIONABLE
EXPENDITURE
On open lines of Railways, all objectionable
items noticed in the internal check of bills or documents regarding work are
communicated through the offices concerned through this allowance lists and
objection statements. Irregular or
objectionable expenditure which comes to notice, after the posting in the
register of works and allocation registers and totaled up and reconciled with
the general books, are also intimated to the offices responsible for the outlay
for expeditious regularization.
Objectionable
Expenditure is classified as under :
1) Want
of sanctioned estimate
2) Excess
over sanctioned estimate
3) Want
of sanctioned appropriation
4) Miscellaneous
for example Irregular personal claims, absence of vouchers, breach of financial
rules, provisional acceptance of allocation of estimate and provisional payment
to staff of any account.
It is the duty of the Accounts office to take
all necessary action without avoidable delay to secure regularization of all
expenditure placed under objection. The
Accounts office should if necessary send extracts from objection book to
executive officers and ask them in writing to intimate the action taken in each
case. The outstanding items are
discussed in the Divisional Officers Meetings at the Divisional level and in
the Principle Officers Meeting at HQ level and objections are persued till they
are cleared or finalized.
21. TRANSFER
TRANSACTIONS - INTER RAILWAY & INTRA
RAILWAY:
All transactions between two separate
accounting units within the same railway or between two railways within the
same system of accounts i.e. of Railway department should be settled by book
adjustment. These transactions should be
passed on to the party concerned through transfer certificate –
Local/Foreign. Local TCs or Advice of
transactions pertain to the division or branches of home railway. Local TCs are issued by and are received
direct in the respective accounting units.
Foreign TCs are dealt with in HQrs office
books section. Relevant Bills/Vouchers
are sent with the TCs by the accounting unit showing allocation against which
the amount is to be adjusted. Transfer
transactions between two units of the same railway are known as Intra Railway
TCs while transfer transactions between two railway zones are known as
Intra-Railway TCs
22. CASH
REMITTANCE NOTE
The earnings of stations are remitted
through(always accompanied by cash) remittance note(C.O.M/C.O.9 Revised) to the
cash office. This is prepared in three
foils – one block and two counter foils.
The counter foils are sent along with cash to
the cashier who returns one foil duly signed by the cashier and cash witness to
the station as an acknowledgement, the other being passed on to the accounts office.
Details of vouchers (warrants, credit notes,
pay orders etc) are given on the back of the cash remittance note.
The station takes credit in its balance sheet
on the basis of cash acknowledgement as per CR notes for the month.
23. NON-ISSUED
TICKETS
When a passenger before commencing his journey
wishes to change his ticket for one of a higher class of for a more distant
station or for a return journey ticket and pays the difference of fares or when
a wrong ticket is issued or when it becomes necessary to take back a ticket
which has been issued and to refund the fare or when it becomes necessary to
cancel and card or paper ticket of any description, the original ticket should
be marked non-issued and initialed by station master(booking clerk) in a sealed
cover with a non-issued ticket statement.
If it is not sent the persons responsible
should be debited with the value of the ticket or some other disciplinary
action may be taken against him.
In the
accounts office the Non-issued tickets summary is subjected to critical check.
24. HANDLING
BILLS
When either the S.M. or contractor perform the
loading or un-loading services on behalf of the railway, they prepare handling
bills.
Consignments handled by consignor/consignees
are entered in this statement of ‘Goods not lifted by contractors’ appended to
each bill. Such bills are prepared for
local and foreign traffic and bear the counter signatures of Divisional Traffic
Superintendent(Now actually those bills are based on weight not lifted by
owners and agencies other than the handling contractors as per machine prepared
abstracts and paid statements)
25. GOODS
CASH BOOK
The
goods cash book is a record of
1. The
progress made in the realization of goods earnings from all sources, including
demurrage, wharfage and special receipts which are shown under the head
“miscellaneous” in the goods balance sheet.
2. The
remittances of such receipts to the accounts office.
It is posted as cash and credit notes are
received and opposite the total of each day’s receipts the following entry is
made “Remitted to cashiers under Cash Remittance Note No……………..dated ………………..
When the payment of freight
is made, the foils of the outward or inward book on which the items appear is
inserted against the entry in the Goods Cash Book.
It is the most important
record to check the accuracy of goods transaction taking place at the station.
26. GENERAL
ON-COST
It denotes all on cost other than the proforma
on cost that is incurred in common with more than one shop or department within
the workshop. The General on cost
includes:
1. Leave,
Sick, Hurt and holiday pay paid to workshop employees whose wages are not
charged to shop such as yard establishment.
2. Wages,
overtime etc. of staff such as workshop apprentices, tool keepers not attached
to shops.
3. Freight
charges which cannot be directly charged to jobs.
4. Electrical
power which is not possible to allocated to shops.
5. Hydraulic
and pneumatic power and gas that cannot be allocated to shops.
6. Wages
paid in lieu of notice to workshop staff not charged to shop.
7. Replacement
of articles stolen or lost.
8. Expenditure
on apprentices, school and hostel.
9. Cost
of Railway security Force staff which is specially employed to safe guard the
premises of more than one shop or for the whole workshop under a responsible
officer.
10. Working
expenses of cranes and shunting engines, lorries, auto-trucks etc. provided for
the use of the workshop when not chargeable to shop on cost.
11. Working
expenses of central works pumping plant.
12. Experimental
work, when more appropriately charged direct to job itself.
13. Wages
charges that cannot be allowed to shops.
14. Wages,
over time etc of general labour in yards and shunters.
15. Sanitary
arrangements in workshops
16. Messengers,
wages, uniform etc when allocated to shops
17. Consumable
stores for general use not allocable to shop.
18. Maintenance
of mess room.
19. Yard
lighting.
27. MACHINE
PRINTED ABSTRACTS
The Traffic Accounts offices will send to each
station, through commercial couriers by 12th of the following month,
Machine Printed Abstracts also called Machine Prepared Abstracts(in duplicate)
separately for paid and To-pay traffic in the Pro-forma appearing at Appendix –
XX/X of I.R.C.M.
All invoices booked to the Station from all
stations on the Government Railways during the month will be listed in these
abstracts. If these abstracts are not
received at the station by 16th of the following month, S.M
should call for the same telegraphically
from the Traffic Accounts office concerned, docketing a copy of Telegram to the
Divisional Commercial Manager.
If M.P.As are not received at the station by
the 20th of the following month, the goods delivery book should be
closed and balance sheet compiled on that basis, when M.P.As are subsequently
received they should be compared with goods delivery book. Any further amount required to be taken to
debit as a result of this comparison should be adjusted in the balance sheet in
hand under the head “ Difference for previous month between delivery book and
MPA” (Para s 2020 : 21 IRCM)
28. STOCK
SHEET
The Stock Verifier should daily prepare stock
verification sheets(S-1260) for all items of stores, the verification of which
has been completed that day.
The Stock Verification Sheets should be
prepared from the data in the field book after filling in all columns of the
Sheets and after all copies have been initialed by the ward keeper, the
original copies should be submitted to the Stores Accounts Officer for posting
the Priced Ledger and duplicate and triplicate made over to the ward
keeper. A manuscript Register of Movement of such stock sheets should be
kept as a record of such dispatches.
Stock sheets for stores depot verification
should be serially numbered for each class stores and in the case of other
verification for each account separate series being also used for new, second
hand and surplus stores. In cases where
there are no discrepancies in stock, no stack verification sheet need be
prepared.
29. RAILWAY
CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Recommendations of Acworth Committee (1920-21)
which was formed to examine the question of separation of Railway Finances from
General Finances. With a view to ensure that the Railway should have a
separate budget of their own, and become responsible for their earnings and
expenditure. It was also suggested that
the Railways should provide such net revenue as is required to meet the
interest on the debit incurred by the Central Government for Railways.
The control over financial transactions of the
Railways was to continue as before and was to be exercised as rigidly as on
financial transactions of other Governmental Departments.
The
salient features of recommendations are :
1. Whereas
arrangements for financing of all departments had been considered together the
Railways were to remain a part in future in respect of both capital and revenue
expenditure.
2. There
should be definite programme of Railways for capital expenditure and a definite
borrowing for railway purposes.
3. Net
profit earned by the Railways should be distinct from the General Revenues and
should be utilized for creating additional facilities or reducing rates and
fares.
4. The
committee also suggested for establishment of Depreciation Reserve Fund on the
Railways.
Separation Conventions was adopted by a resolution of the
Legislature on 20th September 1924.
Main features of Separation Convention are
1. Annual
Railway Contribution to the General finances of the Government in the form of
Dividend on the Loan Capital.
2. Loss
on Strategic lines: The interest on the Capital at charge and loss in working
of strategic lines will be borne by general revenues and will be deducted from
the dividend payable.
3. Revenue
Reserve Fund: Any surplus remaining after payment of Dividend will be
transferred to Railway Reserve Fund. If
the amount available exceeds 3 crores only two thirds of this will be
transferred to the fund and remaining one third will go to the general
revenues. The Revenue Reserve Fund has been abolished w.e.f 1992-93. The amount has been transferred to
Development Fund.
4. Objects
of Revenue Reserve Fund: It should be used to secure to payment of dividend, to
provide arrears of depreciation and writing down loan capital and strengthen
Financial position of Railways, in order that the services rendered to the
public could be improved and rates reduced.
5. Temporary
Borrowings : The Railways can borrow
temporarily from the general revenues to meet capital expenditure.
6. Railway
Standing Committee of Legislature : It consisted of nominated chairman and
eleven members from the legislative assembly from their body to examine the
estimates of Railway expenditure which
the Railway Board had to place before the Committee prior to discussion on
demands for grants for Railways in the Assembly.
7. Railway
Depreciation Reserve Fund : This fund was created to meet the cost of
replacements and renewals.
8. Demands
for Grants : The review of The Railway Separate Convention Committee continued
to be conducted after every 5 years and various changes introduced to fit with
the changed circumstances.
The Railway Budget was to be presented to the Legislative Assembly
in advance of the General Budget in the form of Demands for Grants.
Objectives of Separate Convention:
a.
To relieve the Central Budget from the violent
fluctuations caused by the incorporation there in of the Railway Estimates of
Income and expenditure.
b. To
enable Railways to carry out a continuous policy based on necessity of making a
definite return to General revenue on the sum spent by Government on Railways.
The term of R.C.C. have been changing from
period to period as a result of recommendations of various committees set up
for the purpose.
30. WAGON
TURN ROUND
It is a
statistical term. It is the measure of
utilization of a wagon in one complete trip and is committed from the time the
wagon starts with a load, till it is ready to pick up another load from the
same destination or some other station.
The quicker the round, the better
the working results.
The better wagon Turns Round depends on
various physical characteristics of land traversed offering of traffic at the
destination point and density of traffic and economic development and
dependence of the area and also general lead or average haul of traffic.
31. JOINING
TIME
It is the time granted to a Railway Servant to
enable him to join a new post on transfer.
The time is regulated according to distance of the new place from the
original place of duty.
The
joining time shall be calculated from old Head Quarters in all cases.
On
transfer from one station to another and
also involving change of residence.
Distance
between old HQ & new HQ Joining time admissible
1000KM or less 10
days
More than 1000KM but less than 2000KM 12
days
More than 2000KM 15 days (except in cases of travelling by air
for which the maximum will be 12 days)
The joining time is admissible only in cases
of transfer in public interest and not in cases of transfer on employee’s
request
When a railway servant joins the new post
without availing of the full joining time, the number of days joining time as
admissible under the rules, subject to a maximum of 15 days, reduced by the
number of days actually availed of shall be credited to his leave account as
earned leave/LAP.
32. PUBLIC
ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
At the commencement of each session, a
Standing Committee of Parliament is constituted for the purpose of scrutinizing
the Appropriation Accounts and audit reports there on, and such other matters
as the Finance Department may refer to it.
As a Parliamentary Committee appointed by the
Speaker of Lok Sabha, consisting of members from both Houses of
Parliament. The Public Accounts
Committee has its own chairman, its own programme and Procedure. The committee takes up the examination of the
Audit Report and Appropriation Accounts after they have been placed before the
parliament with the approval of the President.
Apart from taking oral evidence from
Government representatives, the Committee calls for additional information in
the form of Memoranda and notes on points on which it requires further
elucidation.
The committees findings are recorded in a
report presented to Parliament. Even
though the Committee is not an executive body and its opinions and findings are
only recommendatory and mandatory.
Government examines each recommendation with a view to implement them
and report on the action taken when the next year’s accounts come up for examination.
33. OPERATING
RATIO
Operating ratio is the ratio of working expenses to gross earnings. It is a measure of gauging the operating
efficiency. However in actual practice
it is not always a good criterion of relative operating efficiency of different
Railways where working conditions vary widely and this is particularly so in India
due to differences in climate, topography, industrial, commercial and
agricultural activities.
Similarly while comparing ratio of one year
with another great care is taken to see that the terms ‘working expenses’ and
‘gross earnings’ are clearly defined and that the figures have been compiled on
the same basis. The object of a Railway
administration is to keep this ratio as low as possible, consistent with
efficient working increase in traffic and fall in expenditure.
Formula: Operating
Ratio =
--------------------------------------------------------
Gross
earnings
34. INFLATED
MILEAGE
Inflated Mileages are two times, three times,
four times, one and half times etc. of the actual distance. In sandy, hilly and rainy parts of the
country where the operating cost is more than what in the plains, the distance
will bring the margin of profit after meeting average cost of service.
35. TRANSFER
GRANT AND PACKAGE ALLOWANCE
Transfers means the movement of an employee
from one Head Quarters station in which he is employed to another such station,
either to take up the duties of a new post or in consequence of a change of
head quarters.
Daily allowance, mileage allowance for
journeys between residence/railway stations at either end and lumpsum transfer grant and packing
allowance presently admissible on transfer are replaced by composite transfer
grant w.e.f 01.10.1997.
The daily allowance for the period of journeys
on transfer and road mileage allowance for self and family between the
residence and the railway shall no longer be admissible now. These concessions will instead be subsumed in
the Composite Transfer Grant.
Railway servants who have joined railway
service on or after 01.05.1976 will be entitled to CTG at the rate of one
months basic pay in the case of transfers located at a distance of 20KM or more
from the HQ to the outstation involving change of residence.
Transfer
allowance for short distance transfers, the road mileage allowance admissible
for self
and family members will not be admissible w.e.f. 01.10.97.
In the case of transfers to outstations which
are within a distance of 20kms from the HQ or transfers within the same
city/urban agglomeration the CTG at the
rate of one third of one month’s basic pay will be admissible.
In the case of employees who joined railway
service prior to 01-05-1976 and are entitled to liberal scale of transportation
of personal effects by rail, in terms of railway servant(pass) Rules, 1986, the
quantum of CTG will be 80% of basic pay
in the case of railway employees in group ‘A’, ‘B’,’C’ and 90% in the case of
group D.
The CTG now admissible for transfers within
the same city/Urban agglomeration/short distance transfers within the distance
of 20Kms shall however be admissible at the full rate of one third of basic pay
in the case of railway employees who joined service prior to 01-05-1976.
In the case of retired employees, w.e.f.
01-10-1997, the lump sum transfer grant and packing allowance are substituted
by CTG. Daily allowance & road
mileage allowance hitherto payable for self and family members will be subsumed
in the CTG and will not be admissible separately.
36. PRODUCTIVITY TEST
For the purpose of applying productivity tests
to open line works ender taken with the definite object of increasing earnings
or reducing expenditure and to which such tests can be applied within 5 to
7years of their completion, selection will be made out of these works(charged
to capital) on grounds of remunerativeness.
All such works costing Rs.50 lakhs and over will invariably be subjected
to this test. The result of the Test
should be reported by G.M. to the Railway Board.
The actual net cash flow of each year to end
of 5th/7th year from the date of commissioning should be recorded for each
open line work to be subjected to this test and the cash flows for the rest of
the project life assessed on the basis of
the latest estimate. The whole
series of net cash flows should then be discounted to arrive at the rate of
return compared to return originally expected.
In addition to the Productivity Test to be
conducted a productivity review should
also be undertaken in respect of selected works costing over 10 lakhs
which are estimated to fetch some return, even though not the return prescribed
for a work being classified as renumerative and as such charged to OLWR or DF.
The methodology to be followed will be the
same as prescribed in respect of works costing over one crore each. In case of such works being sanctioned by G.M
within his own power of sanction, selection for the purpose of Productivity
review will be made by him in consultation with FA&CAO. The selection made by the Railway Board out
of such works sanctioned by them will be notified through letters conveying
sanction to the estimates for such works.
For works costing over 10 lakhs but up to one
crore each sanctioned by G.M. within his
own powers of sanction for the purpose of Productivity review will be
made by him in consultation with FA&CAO of his Railway(Para 248 & 249
of F-1)
37. INKED
ENTRIES
When MPA are sent to destination station for
verification with Delivery Book, on verification it is noticed that item
appearing in Delivery Book is not available in MPA, the entry is written the
MPA which is called Inked Entry. If the
item appearing in the MPA is not available in the delivery book, this is forced
in the Delivery Book which is called forced entry.
38. ESTIMATE
COMMITTEE
There is a Parliamentary Committee on
Estimates for examination of such of the estimates as my deem fit to the
committee or are specially referred to it by the Parliament or the Speaker.
Members
of Committee are appointed by the Speaker of Lok Sabha from both Houses of
Parliament. The functions
of the Committee are
a) To
report that economies, improvements in organization efficiency or
administrative reform, consistent with the policy underlying the estimates may
be effected.
b) To
suggest alternative policies in order to bring about efficiency or economy in
administration.
c) To
examine whether the money is well laid out within the limits of the Policy
implied n the estimates.
d) To
suggest the form in which the estimates shall be presented to the Parliament.
The Committee consists of not more
than thirty members to be elected by the Lok Sabha every year from amongst its
members according to the Principle of Proportional Representation by means of
single transferable vote, provided that a Minister shall not be elected as member of the Committee and that if a
member, if after his election to the committee is appointed as Minister, he
shall cease to be member to the Committee from the date of such appointment.
The term of the office of members shall not
exceed one year.
The Committee may continue the examination of
the estimate from time to time throughout the financial year and report to the
House as its examination proceeds. It
shall not be incumbent on the Committee to examine the entire estimates of any
one year.
The demands for grants may be finally voted
notwithstanding the fact that the Committee has made no report.
39. PNR
NUMBER
This is the Special number which is given on
the Ticket issued under Computer service.
This is referred to in all cases of refund, over charges, irregular
service. A register is maintained at
station to record all such tickets under computerization service.
40. RONEOED
LISTS
Stations are supplied with Roneoed lists by
Traffic Accounts office showing “Index Number”,”Station to”, “rate” and Index
numbers for each series of printed tickets stocked at the stations in respect of Traffic over
Government Railways.
Each series of printed tickets supplied to a
station, for traffic over Government Railways is allotted by Traffic Accounts
office a serial number called ‘Index Number’.
This is for the purpose of identifying the printed series in D.T.C. cum
Summary Book, Local, Through Passengers classification of printed Tickets
daily/monthly statements of Non-Issued tickets and ticket indents. The particular Index number in relation to
particular station from identities one and only one particular printed series
stocked at the station from.
In case of continued class ticket the code to
be used is one applicable to the class of first leg of the journey(para 702 of
IRCM)
41. IDLE
TIME
The time taken up in delays and hold ups due
to break down of service or plant or any other causes for which the piece
worker cannot be held responsible should be booked to “Idle Time” and not to
the job and all time so booked should be carefully investigated. Responsibility for the delay or Break Down
located and such steps as may be considered desirable, taken to prevent such
waste. Railway administration can fix
the limits of Idle time that can be ignored i.e. booked to the job.
42. DEPOT
TRANSFER
Depot Transfer of stores are made from main
Depots, to subsidiary Depots when latter’s balance fall below the minimum
limit. Such transfers are done on Depot
Transfer Issue Notes. Form prepared in four foils
1. Office
copy
2. Second
and third copy to be sent to receiving depot.
3. Fourth
to the Ledger Section from where it is sent to Stores Accounts office after
postingin Numerical Ledger. Daily
summaries of Depot Transfers issue Notes are sent to the Stores Accounts
Office.
43. JOB
CARDS AND PLUS CARDS
Job cards are printed separately by the
Production Control Organisation for each operation indicated in the Route Card. When the job is taken up by the operator he
punches ‘On’ and on finishing the job ‘Off’.
Thus the job card gives the total time taken for the job. On completion of the operation, the job card
is passed on to the Incentive Bonus Section of the Workshop Accounts Office.
The Plus cards are issued to authorize
additional time needed for the jobs arising out of brittleness of the materials
used, additional operations, machine performance, etc. which are not
anticipated and provided for in the “Time allowed for Operation”.
44. FREIGHT
DEPOSIT SYSTEM
Under this system about one month or one and
half month freight amount is deposited at the Station and booking is carried
out under this deposit. If the deposit
is not sufficient to cover month’s transactions it is increased as per CC
orders. This facility is granted to a
well up and reliable party.
NEW
SERVICE
The constitution of India provides that when a
need has arisen during current financial year for incurring expenditure upon
same “New Service” not contemplated in the Annual financial statement
(i.e.Budget) a statement should be placed before both the Houses of Parliament
for the estimated amount of expenditure.
The Constitution does not define
what is a “New Service” and only a sase law settles the New Service.
However, in the light of the decision taken by
CAG and the Public Accounts Committee the term “New Service” can be understood
as an expenditure arising out of a new policy decision not contemplated at the
time of Budget. This may include new
activity, or a new form of investment.
Some examples of New Service are
i) Investments in Private sector
companies to be made for the first time. ii) Additional grant in aid to private
institutions exceeding Rs.10 lakhs
iii) Additional
investment of more than Rs. One Crore in an existing departmental undertaking.
iv) Setting up of Commissions of enquiry,
if the expenditure is likely to exceed Rs. 4lakhs. v) Setting up a New Government company.
45. STATION
TO STATION RATES
The quotation of station to station rates
largely depends on commercial considerations.
The reduction in the rates notified in the goods traffic and quotation
of special rates is attempted with a view to retain the existing traffic and
attract the additional traffic.
The
rates quoted however, should cover the incremental costs,that is the additional
cost to be
incurred by the Railway for moving the additional traffic.
The
proposals for the reduction in station to station rates should be initiated by
the Railway on
which the traffic originates.
The rates should be fixed in consultation with
“The Associate Finance”. In case the
station to station rates involves more than one Railway, the concerned railways
over which the traffic should be intimated of the reduced rates.
46. DIVIDEND
RELIEFS
The Railway Convention Committee, 1989 have
endorsed the following reliefs on the Dividend Payable to General Reviews :
i)
In respect of the Capital invested on New
lines , the Dividend Payable is to be calculated at the average borrowing rate
for each year, but deferred during the period of construction, and the first five
years after opening of the line for traffic.
ii)
The deferred liability is to be paid out of
the future surpluses of the line after the payment of current dividend. iii) The amount of unliquidated deferred
dividend liability on New Lines, is to be closed for a period of 20 years from
the date of their opening.
iv) Short
fall in the payment of dividend on account of inadequacy of Net Revenue is
treated as a deferred liability on which
no interest is charged.
47. LATE TENDERS:
Late Tenders are the Tenders received after
the specified time of opening of the Tenders.
Such Tenders should be opened by the concerned branch officers and
marked distinctly, preferably in red ink prominently on the envelop as well as
on the Tender papers. A suitable remark should
also be made in the Tender Register as well as in the Comparative statement.
Normally, all Late Tenders have to be totally
rejected. However, in exceptional
circumstances, if the late tenders received from the Public sector firms,
established and reliable suppliers confirming substantial financial advantage
to the Railway. It is open to the
Railway Administration to seek Railway Board/s approval for the consideration
of such late tenders.
48. RUNNING
ALLOWANCE
Running Allowance means the ordinarily granted
to Non-Gazetted railway employees for the performance of duty directly
connected with the charge of moving trains and includes kilometerage allowance
and mileage allowance and allowance in lieu of mileage but excluded special
compensatory allowance.
These allowances are granted to Running staff
i.e. Driver, Motor Man, Shunters, fireman, guards and brakemen.
Running allowance is paid on mileage basis,
the amount of mileage earned will be calculated as prescribed rates per 100
Kms. When running staff is on non
running duty while at Head Quarters, it will be paid at 30% of pay.
49. RAILWAY
TRAFFIC ENQUIRY COMMITTEE
The Government of India, appointed the “Railway Traffic Enquiry
Committee” to examine the
structure of the fare, rates and charges for Public Tariff carried
by Passenger and Goods trains.
The
terms of references included the packing condition, booking, delivery and payments.
The Committee was also asked to look into the aspects of
developing economy, importance of
making railways financially viable and the possibility of
increasing operating efficiency of Railways.
The committee submitted its report on
01-04-1980. The present rate structure
is based on the recommendations of this Committee.
50. LAST
IN, FIRST OUT
The accountal of stores consumed in the production process under
the method ‘Last in First out’
will enable the organization to charge the latest market prices of
stores to the production costs.
Under this method, the rate per unit of material will be priced at
the latest procurement invoice
price.
51. SUPPPLEMENTARY
DEMAND
When the amount of Grant/Appropriation in the
budget is found to be insufficient for the purpose of the current year, an
estimate for the supplementary grant/appropriation is submitted by Railway
Board to the vote of the Parliament/Sanction of President in the same way as
the original demand for grant has been obtained.
An excess demand relate to expenditure already incurred for the
reasons to be fully explained, in
excess of money voted by Parliament to meet the expenditure during
a year.
The excess demand is based on the
recommendation of the Public Account s Committee as a result of their scrutiny
of the Appropriation Account of the Railway.
Excess demands have to be presented after obtaining the recommendations
of President.
52. DEMANDS
FOR GRANTS
Railway proposals to meet the expenditure are submitted for the
vote of Parliament are made in
the form of Demands for Grants.
After the vote of Parliament is obtained, the same very Demands
are known as Grants authorized
for insuring
expenditure. The Railway
proposals are submitted in 16 Demands
DEMAND NO. DEALS
WITH
01 & 02 Railway
Board
03
General Superintendence & Services on Railways.
04
to 07 Repairs
& maintenance
08-10 Operating
Expenses
11-13 Staff
welfare, Retirement Benefits and Misc. 14 & 15 Railway
funds and payment to general revenue
16 Works
Expenditure.
53. INCENTIVE
The
salient features of incentive scheme are
1) Under
the incentive scheme basic wages of all workers are guaranteed irrespective of
their results of incentive Bonus, but losses during any particular are
adjustable against the profit of the same month.
2) The
ceiling limit on the profit is fixed 50 % in respect of each job year to year
by the Railway Board.
3) Supervisors
up to the levels of chargemen and essential indirect workers are permitted to
participate in the incentive scheme.
Their earnings are however, restricted to a fixed prescribed limit of
average percentage of profit earned by direct to direct workers supervised by
them.
4) A
monthly statement of essential direct workers is supplied by shop-in-charge to
incentive bonus section of Accounts Department.
5) Apprentices
and Time Office Staff are not allowed to participate in the scheme.
6) No
workers under Incentive scheme will be booked for over time during the same
period.
7) The
incentive workers are classified as Direct, Essentially Direct and Indirect workers.
54. ERROR
SHEET
When
a mistake involving financial loss is noticed, the amount short collected of
unaccounted is
debited to the station responsible by means of an error sheet.
This is prepared in carbon in triplicate. The original is kept as office record and
other two copies are sent to station against which debit is raised.
Where separate outstanding branch of CCS’s office is available, error
sheet is prepared in 04 copies and the fourth copy is sent to CCM.
The clearance of the debit is watched through
the Rules in force by FA&CAO of the Railway concerned.
55. UNDER
CHARGED STATEMENT
When under charges are detected by and
recovered at the receiving station in respect of pre paid traffic. These stations take debit for under charged
amounts, and account of such under charges in return(statement)submitted to Accounts office taking the special debit
in the Monthly Balance Sheet in hand.
Particulars of such charges relating to
through Traffic should be advised by the receiving Railway
Accounts Office to the forwarding Railway Accounts office to enable the latter to withdraw the debit if
any.
56. RAILWAY
CLAIMS TRIBUNAL
Railway
Claims Tribunal has been brought into being under Railway Claims Tribunal Act,
1987(54
of 1987) w.e.f. 08-11-1989.
The Act sets up a Claim Tribunal with benches
in different parts of the country to expedite disputes regarding loss,
destruction, damage, non-delivery or deterioration of goods, or animals
entrusted to the Railway Administration for carriage, death or injury or loss
etc. to a passenger in a Railway
accident involving a passenger train and
refunds of fare and freight charges, ousting the jurisdiction of civil
court and claims commission etc.
57. LINE
CAPACITY
The term Line Capacity is generally used for
works after the execution of which the capacity of a Line or section there of
is increased to accommodate the movement of more traffic.
Line
Capacity works fall into two categories
i) To
avoid detention of stocks ii) To
carry additional traffic Various methods are
used to increase Line Capacity
a) Conversion
of gauge from M.G. to B.G.
b) Doubling
of Line
c) Signaling
improvement
d) By
introducing Centralized Traffic Control
System
e) Lengthening
loops
f)
Crossing to be increased etc.
58. BIN
CARDS
Material stored in Stores depot are distributed amongst the
different wards. Each ward
containing material of one or more classes of stores.
In wards a system of stocking the Stores. So many deep row in a layer of stores is
adopted to ascertain at a glance the existing stock at a time. In respect of small items a system of packing
in bags uniform quantities of items in convenient weights or number based on
average quantities for one issue is adopted and kept in separate bins.
Wherever
practical gradation marks are printed on bins or separate cards known as bin
cards are maintained to show certain preciously held quantities which would
enable a busy ward keeper to know at a glance the approximate stock in his custody
and assist him in taking steps for prompt recoupment.
59. STATION
OUTSTANDINGS
Station outstandings represent the unrealized
amounts for the services are rendered by the Station. The station Master is held responsible for
the accountal of these. The station
outstandings from month to month are shown as closing balance in the Station
Balance Sheet.
The list of Outstandings are submitted along
with the Station Balance Sheet to the Traffic Accounts Office.
The Station outstandings accumulate on account of the following
transactions.
i)
Freight outstandings where the To-pay invoices
and pacel way bills have been accounted for by the Station, but the delivery of
the Consignments has not been affected by the consignees.
ii)
Irregular freight outstandings due to error in
invoicing, forced entries, diversion of goods, withdrawal of consignments after
the dispatch of invoices to Traffic Accounts Branch, twice accountal of
invoices by the Stations etc.
iii)
New receipt of consignments at the destination
and delays in finalization of claims cases.
iv)
Wharfage and demurrage charges accrued but not
realized or remission orders awaited. v) Admitted debits not made good in time.
vi) Disputed
Error Sheets(i.e. Not Admitted debits) not settled in time.
The other miscellaneous items are short accountal and short
remittances of cash non submission
of over charge sheets and credit advice notes, cashier
disallowance lists.
The list of Station Outstandings should be
reviewed and clearances made so that the outstandings are current and these are
no inefficient balances or amounts outstanding for long periods.
60. LIMITED
TENDERS
It is the primary duty of the Railway
Management to obtain the best value possible for the moneys spent. Tender system for the works as well as for
the supply of stores items is considered as one of the most effective methods
of securing competitive rates.
Limited Tender System represents where
enquiries are made only from the “Approved List of Contractors or
Manufacturers” maintained by the executive engineers and stores officer. Limited Tenders are invited when it is
considered advantageous to the Railways and are in public interest.
Limited Tenders are resorted in respect of the
following cases.
i)
Where it is considered advantageous in public
interest not to call open tenders(i.e. advertised tenders)
ii)
Where the contracting agencies are limited in
number and no useful purpose will be served by open tenders.
iii)
Where the work or supplies are considered
urgent and it is considered that the additional expenses likely to occur are
worth taking and the reasons are recorded thereof.
iv)
Limited Tenders are invited from the “Approved
List of Contractors” up to 40 lakhs without financial concurrence and in case
of stores up to 2 lakhs.
It should be ensured that a reasonable No. of Tenders are invited
to quote to have effective
completion.
In case where the response is considered poor
under the system, the rates quoted should be critically examined. It should also be seen that adequate notices
have been given and the notices are received by the Tenderers.
61. STOCK
ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNT
Stock Adjustment Account is a subsidiary
suspense head of account under “stores suspense”. This
Account is intend to record
a) The
Temporary fluctuations in the books value of stores items held in Stock.
b) Adjustment
of differences discovered in the course of Stock Verification.
c) The
differences arising due to revision of rates.
The Stock Adjustment Account is maintained in three parts viz:
Part I : |
Difference in Stock as a result of Stock Verification. |
Part II : |
Differences
in value due to revision of rates on account of Depreciation and market fluctuations. |
Part III : |
Miscellaneous items such as difference between book value and
value realized in Sales, losses due to breakage leakage, deterioration and
obsolescence. |
The postings in Stock Adjustment Account are made from the various
journal vouchers made for
the different transactions.
As a rule all items appearing under Stock
Adjustment Account may have to be cleared within six months.
Being a Suspense Account, the items have to be
reviewed periodically.
62. CAPITAL
AT CHARGE
The Capital-at-Charge represents the value of
physical assets of the Railway created out of the Capital amount made available
by the central Government from year to year.
This is treated as Loan Capital on which dividend at the prescribed
percentage is paid annually by the Railways.
The
Capital-at-Charge includes specific debt, non-specific debt and Capital
contributed by District Board etc.
63. SPECIFIC
FUEL CONSUMPTION
The
quantity of fuel consumed over 1000 GTKM is called as Specified Fuel
Consumption.
It is arrived at with the help of following formula separately for
electric, diesel and coal viz :
Total
Fuel Consumption(in No. of Units)
SFC for Electric =
------------------------------------------------------
Total
GTKM(in Thousands)
Total
Fuel Consumption(in No. of Ltrs)
SFC for Diesel =
------------------------------------------------------
Total
GTKM(in Thousands)
Total
Fuel Consumption(in M.Tonnes)
SFC for Coal = ------------------------------------------------------
Total
GTKM(in Thousands)
Further
it is prepared for following items separately.
i) All
Goods Trains ii) All Passenger Trains iii) All
Shunting Trains iv) All Departmental Trains v) All
combined Trains.
64. FIRM’s
CREDIT NOTE
In
the case of private firms specifically authorized by the Commercial authorities
against
adequate amount of security sum as Bank Guarantee Firm’s Credit
Notes are in vogue.
These
are popularly known as “Credit Note-cum-Cheques”.
In the upper portion of such credit notes, the
details of the transactions are noted by the Station Master while the lower
portion addressed to the Banker, serves as the Cheque. These are sent by the
stations to the cashier along with daily cash and the cashier directly remits
them into the bank for collection.
On account of the introduction of MICR
Cheques, instead of Composite format of Credit Notecum-Cheque, only credit note
forms are used and these are supported by MICR Cheques by quoting reference
there of.
65. INVENTORY
TURNOVER RATIO
Inventory Turn Over Ratio is meant that the ratio in between the
value of Stock on hand to a
peak day of the year or on 31st March of every year and
value of total issue during the year.
It is mostly calculated for year ending
period. A low ratio is always welcome by
the Inventory Manager because by this way it consume less Capital blocked and
performs more efficiency by way of more issue.
Now a days it is managed by Inventory Control System named as ABC
analysis. Indian Railways is
now obtaining more and more better results i.e. Inventory Turn
Over Ratio in past some year.
66. IMPREST
CASH
Cash obtained not for any specific purpose, but as a standing
advance for thepurpose of meeting
with the urgent requirement as and when they arise, are called
Imprest Cash.
It is kept with the Officer to whom the account has been
sanctioned. Amount of the Imprest has
also been decided after obtaining financial concurrence.
Imprest Account is maintained by an individual
to whom a sum of money is advanced to enable him to make certain classes of
payment from Government viz payment of Petty Office Expenses and emergent
charges which cannot be foreseen.
This account is made in duplicate, one copy
being retained by the Imprest holder and the Original duly supported by
necessary verified vouchers forwarded to the Accounts from time to time as the
Imprest holder to close this account(in most of the cases 2th of the month) so
as to ensure that all the transactions have been included for the month.
67. RETURNED
STORES
The stores which are no longer required are returned to the Dept under “Advice Notes
of Returned Sotres Form” prepared in 6 foils
1st foil : Office copy
2nd 3rd and 4th Foil : These are
sent to stocking Dept along with RR 2nd foil retained by Stocking
Depot
3rd and 4th sent to Depot stores Accounts
office after posting in the Bin cards, price ledgers are posted from 4th
foil. 3rd Foil is compared
with 5th Foil received direct from the returning subordinate. Advice
of credit is issued against the Dept.
with the support of 3rd
and 5th foils. 6th Foil : The returning official sends 6th
fuel to executive engineer/Divisional Officer concerned
(para 1604/S)
68. LIQUIDATED
DAMAGES
The liquidated Damages is the amount
recoverable from Contractors for their
failure to execute contract and supply materials as per agreement in
force. The amount recoverable should be
only reasonable compensation not exceeding the amount so named or stipulated in the contract.
The compensation is computed on the basis of
the actual sustained by he Railway or
the inconvenience that has been caused by the failure of the contract even
though no loss actually been incurred.
The amount of actual loss resulting from
increase in expenditure on execution of work/supply is temporarily held under
Miscellaneous advances pending recovery and is not debited to the work or
normal expenditure Lead.
69. NEXT
BELOW RULE
The intentions of Next Below Rule is that an
officer out of his regular line should not suffer by forfeiting acting
promotion which he would otherwise have received, had he remained in his
regular line. From this it follows that
the fortuitous action promotion of some one junior to an officer who is out of
the regular line does not in itself give rise to a claim under the “Next Below Rule”. Before such a claim is established it would
be necessary that the following conditions are fulfilled :
a) That
the promotion in the regular line is not fortuitous.
b) That
all the staff senior to the Officer have been given acting promotion unless in
any case the acting promotion is not given because of this inefficiency,
unsuitability or on leave.
c) That
an officer Next below him and in the event of inadmissibility of such staff,
the next junior has been promoted.
d) That
the post within the cadre remains unfilled for want of approved person junior
to the
Officer and
e) That
the vacancy caused in the cadre is not filled up by making promotion on adhoc
promotion basis till the release of next panel when some junior become
available for promotion.
If the above conditions are fulfilled the officer who is outside
the regular line of service shall get
his pay fixed not less that what he would have got by virtue of
his promotion in his regular line.
70. APPORTIONMENT
OF GOODS EARNINGS
(i)
Apportionment
of Govt. Railway Traffic. Under the mechanized procedure of accounting
the preparation of Grand summary and listing has been dispensed with.
The result of apportionment is obtained
through computer with the help of Summary Cards, Master Cards and follow on
Cards specially prepared for the purpose.
The Summary Cards are prepared from the
Individual Basic Cards, Master Cards shows the percentage of distance between
each pair of stations for the purpose of apportionment of traffic
earnings. The result so obtained is
consolidated by the forwarding Railways and intimated to the Railways involved
in the Transactions.
(ii)
Apportionment
of Non-Govt. Railway Traffic:
The apportionment of Non-Government Railway Traffic is done on the basis
of Division sheets.
The Division sheets is posted from the checked
invoices and shows the No. and date of invoice, station from and to, weight,
debits under forwarding and receiving railway i.e. freight paid and topay,
proportions and over charges in favour of home line and forwarding railways.
The accuracy of postings in the Division Sheet
is checked with a proof sheet compiled from via summaries by Inward abstract
checking section.
The Division sheets are sent to the Railway
concerned not later than 21 days of the close of the period to which they
relate.
The Division sheets are prepared by the Accounts office of the
receiving Railways.
71. CREDIT
NOTE
It is composite document, the upper portion of
which contains full particulars of the goods or parcels, etc. for which conveyance is required along with
the amount chargeable and the Lower portion being a bill of exchange for the
amount payable. It is treated as a
voucher for payment of fares and freight due on the transaction for which these
are tendered at the Stations.
The stations send the same to the Accounts
Office in lieu of cash. These are
checked in the Accounts Office and the correct amount is billed for against
departments etc. through carriage bills issued against the parties concerned.
The amount is recovered either in cash or Book
adjustment, as the case may be.
Different forms of Credit Notes are used for Military Departments and
Civil Departments. This facility is
afforded to its customers by the Railway Departments as a commercial practice.
The Railway Department gets commission charges
on Credit Note in consideration of the extra service rendered. The commission is in addition to the fares
and freight and is included in the Carriage Bills as a separate item.
In the case of Private firms, specially
authorized by the commercial authorities against adequate security such as Bank
guarantee, firm’s credit note are in vogue.
These are popularly known as “Credit Note-cum-Cheque”.
In
the upper portion of such credit notes, the details of the transactions
arenoted by Station
Master while the lower portion addressed to the Banker serves as a
cheque. These are sent by the Station
Masters and the cashier along with the daily cash and the cashier directly
remits them into the Bank for collection.
On account of introduction of MICR Cheques,
instead of composite format of Credit Note-cumCheque, only Credit Note Forms
are used and these are supported by MICR Cheques by quoting reference there of.
72. CONTAINER
SERVICES
Domestic
Container with 5 tonne way load moved on specially designed “wagon flats” has
been
in use on the Indian Railways between selected pairs of stations.
Container service offers distinct advantages
to the traders specially designed road units bring the containers to the door
step of the consignor. The containers
are loaded at the premises of the consignor and locked in his presence. The Railway receipt are given on the spot.
The containers are transported to the depot
sidings at container terminal and loaded on the “wagon Flats”. The wagon flats are dispatched by specified
fast trains including speed link expresses with guaranteed transit time at the
destination, the containers are unloaded and moved in special trucks at the
spot specified by the consignee.
Container Corporation of India ltd.(CONCOR), a
Government of India undertaking under Ministry of Railways has taken over the
management and operation of ISO Container services including terminal
activities at the Inland Container Depots earlier owned and managed by the
Indian Railways.
The ISO
containers aremarine containers of standard dimensions. These containers carry import and export
cargo between the ports and inland locations.
Transport of Domestic cargo in these containers is also being undertaken
by CONCOR.
The Railway Board have authorized CONCOR to
issue CONCOR-I WB(InlandWay Bill) in lieu of Railway Receipt and deal directly
with the customer. CONCOR separately
remit Railway freight at rates fixed by the Railway Board to the concerned
Zonal Railways periodically.
73. DEPOSIT
WORKS
Deposit works are works executed by the
Railway for other Government Departments, State Government, Local Bodies,
Private individuals etc.
The cost of which is not met out of Railway funds, but out of
funds from Non-Railway sources.
In order to meet the cost of preparation of plans and estimates
for such works undertaken fro
private individuals, the party concerned should deposit a certain
sum on a sliding scale basis.
The acceptance of the Government department should be obtained for
the estimate before the
same is submitted to the competent Railway authority for sanction.
Work required by a Private individual cannot be started till the
estimated cost there of is
deposited with the Railway by the concerned party.
74. CORPORATE PLAN:
Indian Railways has drawn up a Corporate Plan for the 15 years
period 1985-2000, providing a
basic frame work for planning.
The main
objectives enunciated in the corporate plan are :
1) Build
Up capacity of the Railway to carry by 2000 A.D
A) 370-400
Billion NTKM of freight traffic
B) 310-330
billion PKM non sub-urban passenger
traffic
C) 105-110
billion PKM sub –urban passenger traffic.
2) Achieve
15% reduction in cost of transport in real terms
To achieve these objectives, Indian Railways Plans to adopt the
following strategies :
A) Optimise
investment and improve productivity of
assets.
B) Upgrade
technology
C) Bring
down costs by reducing fuel consumption material costs etc.
D) Adopt
cost based tariff policy
E) Rehabilitate
and maintain assets, particularly track and Rolling Stock.
F) Develop
human resources
G) Divest
auxiliary activities.
75. FOCAL
POINT BANK SYSTEM
Under the pre-revised procedure, i.e. before
introduction of Focal Point Bank System, the dealing branches of nominated
Banks were booking the transactions and reporting daily particulars thereof to
their respective link cell at Nagpur or GAD Bombay(in case of SBI) which
consolidates all such transactions.
The link cells/SBI, GAD were reporting the
transactions to RBI/CAS, Nagpur for
settlement by Debit/Credit to the
account of Ministry of Railways.
The dealing branches were also reporting the
transactions daily to the FA & CAO’s through payment/receipt scrolls with
supporting paid cheques and challans etc. where these were verified with the
supporting documents and reconciled with the initial record.
The working of this scheme where large No. of
Bank branches were directly dealing with FA&CAO’s and Link cells was creating problems.
To stream line the procedure, the Focal Point
Bank System, which is based on the concept of “One PAO One Focal Point Branch”
as introduced in CBEC, CBDT and DMA where it was proved to be operationally
successful was extended to Ministry of Railways w.e.f. 01-10-93.
Under this revised procedure all the existing
dealing branch continued to handle the Railway transactions in the usual
way. The FA & CAO and the Accounts
Officers authorized by him continued to be in account with the same Bank
Branches as hither to fore.
These dealing Branches have been linked for
the purpose of reporting to FA & CAO and Link Cells to the newly designated
“Focal Point Branch” of the nominated Bank functioning at the centre where the
FA&CAO is situated.
The nominated PSBs have designated a Branch as
the Focal Point Branch at the place where the FA&CAO is located.
In
selecting this Branch care has been taken to ensure that such Branch is nearer
to the place of
office of FA&CAO, so that unnecessary correspondence could be
avoided and better support established.
76. TRAFFIC SUSPENSE:
The
following are the various components of Traffic suspense
1. Station
Outstanding
2. Accounts
Office Balance Sheet.
3. Cash-in-Transit
4. Demands
Recoverable
Station Outstanding:
The Station outstanding represent those
amounts for which station master has become accountable but he has not
liquidated his liabilities either by remittance of cash or vouchers or by
taking special credits as authorized upto the month.
These
out standings generally relate to (i) Admitted debits (ii) Objected Debits
(iii) consignment
on hand(iv) consignment not on hand(v) Demurrage/Whargage and
misc. shunting siding etc.
Accounts Office Balance Sheet :
Station takes credit in their balancesheet for
the amounts of fares and freight represented by vouchers presented by various
Government Departments and Para-Military organizations like BSF, CRPF etc. They are sent to Accounts office in lieu of
cash. The realization of this amount as
also of other similar amounts which do not pass through Station Balance Sheet
devolves upon the Accounts Office and is made through Carriage Bills against
the various departments. The unrealized
amount under this head is part of Traffic suspense.
Cash in Transit :
Station take credit in their balance sheet for
cash realized by them in the month irrespective of whether it is remitted to
and acknowledged by the cash office in that month or in the subsequent
month. Such station cash for which
credit has been allowed to the station in one month but which has been received
in the cash office after the 3rd of the following month and
consequently included in the General Books in the following month is called
Cash in Transit.
Accounts to Adjust :
The outstanding under this head pertains to
items of Special Credits and Special Debits taken by the Stations in their
Balance Sheet but correctness of which cannot be verified before the close of
accounts for the month concerned.
Demands Recoverable :
The outstanding under this head consists of Rent, Land and Lease
charges, interest and
maintenance charges on siding etc.
77. DIVISIONALISATION
OF STORES
The need for a separate Divisional set up to
look after Stores work arose due to increase in the volume of Stores
transactions and to cater for requirements of the Divisional consuming units
with minimum delays.
Its objective was to improve the efficiency and productivity of
the Stores Organisation and
eliminate wastages involved in centralized functions.
The Divisional Controller of Stores is in charge of Material
Management in the Division and is
responsible to Chief Controller of Stores. He has a lumpsum imprest to make Local
purchases.
The
Divisional Stores Officer has the following functions :
1) To
make periodical review of sanctioned Stores Imprest with the Subordinate units
to ensure that the Stores Imprest have been rationally fixed.
2) To
arrange equitable distribution of excess material with in the Division.
3) To
arrange disposal of scrap material.
4) To
maintain liaison with Stores HQrs
purchase officers as well as concerned Stores Depots.
5) To
co-ordinate and regulate stores supplies etc.
78. ADVICE
OF INTERNAL CHECK
It is prepared by the Accounts office in form AII 2754 separately
for coaching and Goods Traffic
and send to the Stations concerne.
The advice compares the closing Balance as
shown by the Station in the Balance Sheet with that arrived at by the accounts
office as a result of the check of various account documents and returns. The difference between the two balances is
supported by details working up to it.
All debits raised by the Accounts office or disallowances by the
cashier as also for the stations are
recorded in the advice in detail to enable the station to take
action for their clearance.
Items for the clearance of which the Accounts
Office is responsible are grouped and shown as “Accounts to Adjust”.
79. APPROPRIATION
ACCOUNTS
In the Appropriation Accounts the original grant or appropriation
are compared with the final
grants or appropriation and latter again compared with the actual
expenditure of the year.
The explanations of variations between
original grant or appropriation and the final grant or appropriations and
actual expenditure of the year are recorded under the Appropriation
accounts are prepared in Form F-403 by
each Railway and sent to Railway Board on the dates fixed for the purpose by
the Board.
It is presented in the condensed form to the Public Accounts
Committee along with Audit Report
thereon. The committee
examines the Appropriation Accounts to satisfy itself on behalf of Parliament.
a) That
the money shown in the accounts as having been disbursed were legally available
for and applicable to the service or purpose to which they have been approved
or charged
b) That
the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it.
c) That
every re apportionment has been made in accordance with the provisions made in
this behalf under rules framed by competent authority.
80. RESERVE
PRICE
Sale of materials is made through
auction. A price is fixed for bid, that
price is called Reserve Price.
Ordinarily the bid is not accepted below the Reserve Price. It is used as guiding factor for the
responsible Railway Officer in auctions for acceptance of bid.
This price is fixed on the basis of best bid in last auction and
information received from other
sources. The Price is fixed
by the Chief Controller of Stores and Depot Officer.
If it is accepted in the special circumstances below the Reserve
Price, then reasons are to be
recorded in the files.
81. BUDGET
ORDER
The Grants as “Voted” by the Parliament and appropriations as
sanctioned by the President are
distributed by the Railway Board to the Zonal Railway Administration and other subordinate units.
The sums so distributed are called “Budget
Allotments”, the orders by means of which the allotments are distributed are
called “budget Orders”. The Budget
Orders are accompanied by the final issue of Demands for Grants and works,
Machinery and Rolling Stock Programmes.
82. PRICE
VARIATION CLAUSE
In order to meet the variations in the price
of materials, increase in labour charges, due to Consumer Price Index, etc
during the period of contract, a Price Variation Clause is included while
inviting tenders.
The clause if shown in the Special Condition of the Contract, so
that indenting tenderers will
weigh the implications of Price Variation clause and quote their
rates.
The Price Variation clause will safe guard the
interest of the contractors for any increase and the market fluctuations at a
future date. This in turn enable the
Railway Administration to get reasonable rate.
The
Price Variation Clause for works contract will be expressed in terms of
percentages.
83. PASSENGER
CLASSIFICATION
It is
monthly returns submitted by a Station to its Accounts Office showing all kinds
of Tickets
sold by the Station during the month concerned as well as the
amount collected.
It is posted from the Summary of daily
trains-cum-summary book and prepared separately for Local and Foreign (through)
traffic. The total amount is taken to
debit in the Balance Sheet.
84. ASSET
REGISTER
Asset Registers are maintained in field
units/Divisional units andin Head Quarters office which records the assets
created by the Railway. Two separate
accounts are maintained representing the value of all the physical assets of
the Railway i.e. Block Account and Loan Account.
Block Account represents the value of ll the
physical assets of the Railway irrespective of the source through which such
assets were acquired from year to year.
The Block Account consists of expenditure on Capital, Capital Fund, D.F,
D.R.F., O.L.W.R. including New Minor Works.
It is maintained separately for Commercial and Strategic Lines. The investment cost of all projects including
Buildings over 20 lakhs is docketed in Asset Register maintained by the civil engineering
department in Form E 1720. It is
maintained to have correct information and to conduct post project appraisal if
required.
The Loan Account represents only the value of
those assets which are acquired at debit of “Capital”, financed by General
Finance of the Government, on which dividend is payable as per prescribed rules
from time to time.
There
are large acale omissions and deficiencies in maintenance of these registers at
present and
an endeavour is being made to computerize these registers and
bring them up to date.
85. POST
CHECK SYSTEM
FA
& CAO may permit the payment of any class of payments, pay bills, muster
sheets or labour
pay sheets before internal check either :
a) When
the ordinary procedure or pre-check in offices under his control is likely to
lead to any delay and thereby cause any inconvenience to the staff affected or
violate any of the provisions of the extant statutes i.e. Payment of Wages Act,
or
b) When
a system or post check is found necessary in order that on even distribution of
work throughout the month either in the Bill preparing officer or in the bill
checking offices under his control or in the pay department.
Before introducing the Post Check, Accounts
Officer should advise executive officer confidentially and request him to
ensure that the Bills are prepared by staff conversant with relevant rules and regulations.
All
checks are exercised in Post Check System, which are exercised during Pre-Check
of bills at
the time of internal check.
86. CALENDAR
OF RETURNS
Calendar of Returns is a list or Register
showing the Schedule dates on which different returns are to be received and
submitted to the Head Quarters and Railway Board each month, quarterly, six
monthly and yearly basis.
Calendar of Returns are maintained in each
field unit, Divisional Office, Workshop and Head Quarters Office. Register of calendar of returns is put up to
Branch Officers periodically and Monthly to monitor the compliance of dates for
submission of information to higher leve.
These dates are given by the Head Quarters Office and Railway Board with
the consultation of executive officials at Head Quarters and Board level.
87. EQUATED
TRACK KILOMETER
Kilometerage of Track Equated on the basis of
Trains run per day. Kilometerage of
track equated to standard unit by giving weightage for factors of traffic
density, gradient formation of soil, alignment(curves) rain falls and track
connections and lay outs.
For
running lines(including Running Loop Lines) the formula of working out equated
Track
kilometers is as under :
Q = L x U(I+A+B+C)
Where Q = Equated Traffic Kms
L =
Running Track Kms
U=
Traffic density factor(which is different as per guage
&
factors effecting running of tracks)
88. RAILWAY
ACT 1989
The Railway Act which was passed in 1890 with
forty four amendments had been made to the Indian Railways Act 1890, during the
last hundred years.
The Railway Act 1989, replaces the existing
Act completely. Each section of existing
Act has been reviewed, redundant sections deleted. New sections added and the existing sections
amended where ever necessary.
The following Railway Bill 1986, was
introduced in Lok Sabha on 25-04-1986.
The Bill was referred to Joint select committee of Both houses for a
detailed examination. The Railway Bill,
1989 was passed by Both Houses of Parliament and came into force from 1st
July, 1990.
The
Railway Act, 1989 has been recently amended to give additional powers to the
railway
protection force regarding passengers and passengers area(with
effect from 01-07-2004)
89. COMMISSIONER
OF RAILWAY SAFETY
In
chapter III of Railway Act, 1989, a new section has been added, which defines
the role of the
Commissioner of Railway Safety.
Time to time Railway administration is advised the norms of safety the
Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety to prepare an annual report, which is to
be laid by the Government before each House of Parliament.
Whenever the Commissioner of Railway safety
makes an enquiry under the prescribed rules, he shall submit a confidential
report in writing and shall forward copies of the report to
i) The
Railway Board ii) The Railway Administration of all
Zonal Railways. iii) Other Commissioners of Railway Safety
iv) The
Director Intelligence bureau of the accident caused by the sabotage or train
wrecking
In case, the Railway board has reservations on the recommendations
of the Chief Commissioner
the matter will be finally decided by the Central Government,
Ministry of Civil Railways.
90. RAILWAY
SERVICE (CONDUCT) RULES
The conduct Rules which were revised as a
result of recommendations of Santhanam Committee and others prescribed the
Standard of Conduct expected of every railway servant and members of their
family. When acting under orders of the
superior such order should be got confirmed in writing wherever practicable.
All
orders/instructions issued fromtime to time
Rule 3 : Every Railway Servant shall at all times
i) Maintain absolute integrity ii) Maintain devotion to duty
iii) Do
nothing which is subversionof law and order and is unbecoming of a Railway Or
Government servant iv) Maintain promptness and courtesy
v) Observance
of Government policies.
vi) No Government
Servant shall involve himself in any activity of sexual harassment of any
female employee at work place etc.
These Conduct Rules shall apply to every Railway Servant but shall
not apply to
a) Any
member of the All India Services
b) Any
member of Railway Protection Force as defined in R.P.F Act
c) Any
person in causal appointment.
91. BLOCK
ACCOUNT
From 1st April 1950, two separate
accounts are maintained to represent the value of all the physical assets of
the railway undertaking.
a) Loan
account
b) Block
Account
The Loan account represents the Loan (share) capital and the
physical assets created there from.
The Block Account represents all the physical
assets of the undertaking whether financed from Loan Capital or the Railway’s
own generation of funds.
The Block Account is maintained in Form –
F-429 separately for commercial and strategic lines and includes
a) Expenditure
on Capital A/c.
b) Expenditure
from Development Fund.
c) Expenditure
from the Depreciation Reserve Fund.
d) The
Development Fund and Open Line Works register including “New Minor Works”
relating only to creation of new assets or improvement in the assets replaced.
e) Expenditure
from the Accident Compensations, safety and Passenger Amenities Fund on
Passenger Amenities and safety works and
f)
Expenditure on any assets which have come to
railways without financial adjustment or from
a source not covered by the above
mentioned items (a) to (e)
Appendix
III A
GENERAL RULES & PROCEDURES
[ G.R.P ]
Compiled by the Staff of Sr.DFM’s
Office,
Hubli