Railway Accounts Department Examinations

Friday, August 19, 2022

Super Vasuki - India's Longest Freight Train

 Super Vasuki  - India's Longest Freight Train



  • Named as “Super Vasuki”  - runs on 15th August, 2022 (75th Independence Day Anniversary) 

 

 

  •  By amalgamating Five rakes of freight trains as One Unit 

 

  • Length of the Train - 3.5 KMs 

 

  • Operated by SECR - South Eastern Central Railways, which is the most profitable Zonal Railway in IR.  

 

  • Covered the distance of 224 KMs between Bhilai and Korba in 11 Hours.  

 

  •  6 Locomotives and 295 Wagons - 25,962 Tonnes of Coal carried 

 

  • One Loco Pilot, One Assistant Loco Pilot and One Train Manager (Guard)  


  • Using the Latest technology i.e., DPCS - Distributed Power Control System. That is the leading (front) diesel loco (engine) controlled the entire train along with the simultaneous functioning of the rear loco through electronic transmission while running on the rail network.


Earlier Records 


  • Super Anaconda - 2 KMs long - 3 Locomotives -177 Loaded Wagons 

 

  • Shesh-Naag  - 251 empty wagons - 2.8 KMs long - 4 Locomotives -260 Kms from Nagpur to Korba

 


Material for MCQ


  1. India’s Longest freight train so far (as on 15.08.2022)  - Super Vasuki 

  2. Super Vasuki - runs by SECR 

  3. DPCS stands for Distributed Power Control System 


  • End  - 



Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Staff position in Indian Railways as on 01.04.2022

 Staff position in Indian Railways as on 01.04.2022


Source: Government reply to unstarred question in Rajya Sabha


    -A-

Regular employees

      -B-

Contractual employees against Non-Gaz vacancies

    -C-

Contract Workers

(as per Shramik kalyan portal)

A + B + C


Total

Vacancies 


Non - Gaz

Vacancies 


    Gaz

12.5 Lakhs

5 thousands

5.88 Lakhs

18.43 Lakhs

3.04 Lakhs

3 thousands


Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Syllabus for AFA Post - LDCE




 Syllabus for AFA Post - LDCE 




SN

Topic

Marks

Marks

1

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

15


2

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

15


3

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

15


4

Establishment

15


5

General Expenditure

15


6

Workshop Accounts

15


7

Stores Accounts

15



Professional Subject

105

105 Marks





9

General Knowledge

25


10

Official Language (Optional)

15

40 Marks


Part II

40 

40 Marks





11

Part III - Management Accounts & Financial Justification for Expenditure

30

30 Marks






Grand Total


175 Marks


  






Comparison of New Pattern with 175 marks with old pattern i.e., 2 Papers with 150 Marks each





Old Pattern

New Pattern


Change

Topic

Marks

Topic

Marks

General Knowledge

25 Marks

General Knowledge

25 Marks

No change

English

25 Marks

English

Nil

Removed English portion. Reduced 25 Marks

Official Language

15 Marks

Official Language

15 Marks

No change

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

50 Marks

General Principles of Government Accounting and Audit with Special reference to Railways

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

50 Marks

Books & Budget including Traffic Book

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Financial Justification for Expenditure

25 Marks

Financial Justification for Expenditure

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Management Accounting

25 Marks

Management Accounting

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Traffic Costing

25 Marks

Traffic Costing

Nil

Reduced 25 Marks

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

(optional)

50 Marks

Traffic Accounts & Statistics

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Establishment

(Optional)

50 Marks

Establishment

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 25 Marks

General Expenditure

(Optional)

50 Marks

General Expenditure

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 35 Marks

Stores Accounts

(Optional)

25 Marks

Stores Accounts

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks

Workshop Accounts

(Optional)

25 Marks

Workshop Accounts

(Compulsory)

15 Marks

Reduced 10 Marks