Railway Accounts Department Examinations

Friday, September 8, 2023

Direct Reporting - Indian Railways

 


                             Direct Reporting - Indian Railways  


GM




Direct

Reporting to 

CRB & CEO

DRM

GM

PHOD

Respective Members (RB)

Branch Officer (Division)

Respective PHODs


Source: MOP - Manual of Office Procedure- 2022 year - 6th edition  - Click here



Thursday, September 7, 2023

GSV - Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya

 

GSV - Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya 



  • NRTI - National Rail & Transportation Institute deemed to be a University - Subsumed into GSV - Gati Shakti Vishwavidyala 

 

  • GSV  - Established in 2022 at Vadodara 

 

  • India’s First University in Transport & Logistics sector in India

 

  • A World-class multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional, futuristic institution in the Transport sector. 

 

  • Established duly enacted Central Universities (Amendment) Bill 2022 in Lok Sabha

 

  •  Covering Roads, Railways, Shipping, Aviation, etc. 

 

  •  Mandate: Create a resource pool of best-in-class professionals for the entire transportation sector across technology, management, and policy comprising multidisciplinary teaching, executive training, and research.

 

  • Chancellor: Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways. 


  • Vice-Chancellor: Professor (Dr.) Manoj Choudhary, Ph.D.- IIT/Kanpur  

 







Courses offered:  (Specialization in Rail Engineering & Transport Management) 


B.Tech courses: 


  1. Civil Engineering 

  2. Electrical Engineering 

  3. Mechanical Engineering 

  4. Electronics & Communication Engineering 

  5. Artificial Intelligence & Data Science 


MBA Courses: 

  

  1. Logistics & Supply Management 

  2. Transportation Technology  


Graduation Courses:  


  1. BBA in Transportation Management 

  2. B.SC in Transportation Technology

 


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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

WISE - Workshop Information System

 


 

WISE - Workshop Information System  



  • Source: Chapter 8 of Rolling Stock Code



  • Developed by CRIS - Hardware at Central Location at CRIS data Centre  

 

  • WISE - Workshop Information System - Implemented across all IR POH Workshops - Covers Complete Design, Development, Implementation, and support of Centralised Application for management of IR Workshops 

 

  • Covers all Rolling stock i.e., Coaches, Wagons, Locomotives, OCVs, Special Stock, DEMU, MEMU/EMU, etc  



  • Object: 360-degree view of total Rolling Stock assets under maintenance and their maintenance life cycle across IR & advance prediction of asset demands to production or maintenance requirement.   



  • Initial IT Program for Workshops   -  UNIX-COBOL based application package in 1980-90 years  



  • WISE - Not covered for Production Units.  Efforts are on the way to develop suitable modules for Manufacturing Workshops too in the coming days. 

 

  • Integration with CMM, FMM, IMMS, IPAS, HRMS & eDRISHTI - Data exchange amongst, facilitating to get real-time reports.  

 

  • Integration between Divisions, Zonal Hqrs, and Railway Board 

 

  • Accessible through Internet 

 

  • Single point access to all Managers through a common web portal ROAMS - ROlling Asset Management System  

 

  • CMM for Coaching Depots and FMM for Wagon Depot are part of ROAMS.    

 

  • 34 POH Workshops covered so far (till 2021 January) 



  • First, Second, and Third - Covered under WISE   

 

Workshop

Railway

Date

First

LGDW - Carriage Workshop Lallaguda, Secunderabad

SCR

12.06.2018

Second

TPTW - Carriage Repair Shop, Tirupati

SCR

20.06.2018

Third

Rayanapadu Workshop

SCR

21.06.2018

 

WISE Modules - Total 6  



  1. Rolling Stock Module 

 

2.               Material Module 

 

3.               Assembly Module 

 

4.               Production Module 

 

5.               Management Dashboard Module  

 

6.               Master Data Management Module  

 

Advantages: 



  1. Minimum Paperwork 
  2. Reports are available online on a real-time basis 
  3. Visibility of Rolling Stock, its maintenance history, material and man-hour consumption 
  4. POH arising for the next 1 year can easily be seen 
  5. Optimization of Shop floor inventory 
  6. Reduce Rolling stock holding in Workshops 

 

Abbreviations: 



  1. WISE - Workshop Information SystEm 
  2. POH - Periodic OverHaul
  3. IOH - Intermediate OverHaul 
  4. NPOH - Non Periodic OverHaul 
  5. CRIS - Centre for Railway Information Systems 
  6. OCV - Other Coaching Vehicle (Salons, Inspection Cars, Medical Cars, Tourist cars, Parcels & Horse vans, Composite luggage power cars, Pantry cars & Brake Van) 
  7. DEMU - Diesel Electric Multiple Unit 
  8. MEMU - Mainline Electrical Multiple Unit
  9. CMM - Coaching Maintenance Management 
  10. FMM - Freight Maintenance Management 
  11. IMMS - Integrated Material Management Information System 
  12. HRMS - Human Resources Management System 
  13. IPAS - Integrated Payroll & Accounting System
  14. ROAMS - ROlling stock Asset Management System

 

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Monday, September 4, 2023

What is a CPSE ?

  

 

What is a CPSE?  

 

  • CPSE stands for Central Public Sector Enterprise

 

  • A company under the Administrative control of the Central Ministry/Department  

 

  • Equity Holding - More than 50% - By the Government. 

 

  • Subsidiaries of CPSEs - Also called as CPSE, if more than 50% Equity holding by CPSE 

 

  •  Statutory Corporations like the Airport Authority of India, FCI, etc. also come under the ambit of CPSE 

 

  • Examples of Railways CPSEs - RITES, IRCON, IRCTC etc.,  

 

  • However, the Departmentally run Public Enterprises, Banking Institutions, and Public Insurance companies do not come under CPSEs 

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