NRUCC, ZRUCC & DRUCC

Railway Users Consultative Committees

2015 year GRP -5 marks

National Level -  NRUCC - National Railway Users Consultative Council

Zonal  Level - ZRUCC - Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee

Divisional level - DRUCC - Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee

·        All the Committees and Council established under these rules are consultative in character.

·        Questions relating to staff, discipline and appointment should not be brought before the Committees or the Council.

·        Afforded reasonable facilities like Free passes for  travel and Travelling allowance to all Non official members for attending committee meetings or any other work of the committee.

Objects:

A.    Securing better representation of Railway users.

B.     Affording more frequent opportunities for consultation between Railways and Users on matters relating to service.

C.     Improving the passenger services.

Functions:

·        Provision of amenities

·         Opening of New stations

·        Improvement of Passenger services and facilities

Members - From Chamber of Commerce, Trade Associations,  Industries

 Association, Agriculture Association, Handicapped  Association, Registered

 Passengers association, Consumer  Protection Organisation, MLAs, MPs , Railway

 Officials etc

	NRUCC	ZRUCC	DRUCC
Full form	National Railway Users Consultative Council	Zonal Railway Users Consultative Committee	Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee
Chairman	Minister for Railways	GM	DRM
Secretary	Director, Traffic Commercial (General) II	Secretary to GM or any other officer nominated by GM	Sr.Traffic Officer (Sr.DOM /Sr.DCM)
Tenure	2 years	2 years	2 years
Tenure commenced from	July	April	January
No of times - Meet	2 times	3 times	Not less than 3 times

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Allocations - 2015 Books & Budget (with books ) Question paper

                                                            ALLOCATIONS

For the following items of earnings/expenditure give abstracts of allocation, Name of Demand, Minor Head and Detailed Head ( any ten) – 20 marks

SN	BOOKS & BUDGET (With Books ) – 2015	Abstract	Demand No.	Minor Head	Sub head	Detailed head
1	Salary of  TTE	G	09	500	530	530
2	Salary of Member, Technical of Railway Claims Tribunal	-	02	-	-	-
3	Casual renewal of rails	-	16	3100	3140	3141
4	Repairs & Maintenance of the residence of engineering gateman	B	04	500	530	532
5	Telephone charges of DFM – Divisional Finance Manager	A	03	200	210	213
6	Normal maintenance and repairs of overhead equipment	E	07	400	410	411
7	Ex gratia payment to injured passengers in Railway accident	K	12	300	320	322
8	Earnings from the sale of dry trees.	Z	-	500	520	522
9	Income from ordinary full fares	X	-	100	110	111
10	Way leave charges	Z		200	240	245
11	Running repairs to AC 2 tier coaches.	D		500	520	520

Sources of Finance Erstwhile Demand No. 16 / Capital segment of Demand No.80

Indian Railways - Demand No.16 – Sources of Finance

	Sources of Finance	financed from	chargeable to
20	Capital	General Revenues (Ministry of Finance) as Budgetary support	Land, New Lines, Gauge conversions, Doubling, Electrification, Locos, Coaches & Wagons.
21	DRF- Depreciation Reserve Fund	Appropriated from Ordinary Revenue (i.e., Railway Revenue under Demand No.14 – Appropriation to DRF, Pension Fund	Track renewals, Replacement of Locos, Coaches & Wagons
22	OLWR - Open Line Works Revenue	Not existed	Not existed
23	D.F – Development Fund I	Appropriated from Ordinary Revenue (i.e., Railway Revenue) after paying Dividends to General Revenues. Note: PLUS – easy way to remember DF I, II, III & IV.	Passenger welfare works and other Railway user works (waiting hall, goods sheds & Parcel offices)
33	D.F – Development Fund II		Labour/Staff Welfare Works (Hospitals, Schools, Rly. Institutes, Quarters for Cl.III& IV staff)
43	D.F – Development Fund III		Un-remunerative works (modern train control equipment, washable aprons, new flag stations, improvements to Station/Office buildings)
53	D.F – Development Fund IV		Safety Works (All safety works other than ROB/RUBs & LC gates)
24	ACSPF - Accident Compensation, Safety, Passenger Fund	Not existed.  Accident compensation - transferred to Demand No.12/SMH 10 Safety - Transferred to DF IV Passenger welfare works -  DF I	Not existed
25	C.F – Capital Fund	From Ordinary Revenue (i.e., Railway Revenue). If any surplus available after paying Dividends to General Revenues and appropriating to D.F, R.S.F, Railway Liability Reserve Fund.	All works which are hitherto chargeable to Capital are now chargeable to Capital fund subject to availability of amount in the Capital Fund.
26	R.S.F – Railway Safety Fund	Appropriated from Ordinary Revenue (i.e., Railway Revenue) after paying Dividends to General Revenues and from CRF-Central Road Fund and RSWF – Railway Safety Works Fund ( maintained in the ministry of finance)	Plan Head 29 – Conversion of unmanned to manned Level Crossing(LC) Gates Plan Head -30 – Construction of ROBs/RUBs
27	SRSF - Special Railway SafetyFund	Not existed	Not existed
29	RRSK - Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh	From ordinary Revenue, Cess on Fares, Contribution from CRF- Central Road Fund & Budgetary support from ministry of finance	Tr     Track renewals &upgradation 2.       Bridge rehabilitation 3.       Elimination of LC gates on BG routes by 2022  }         Construction of ROBs/RUBs     4.       Replacement & Improvement of Signaling system. 5.       Improvement & up gradation of Rolling Stock. 6.       Replacement of Electrical assets 7.       HRD – Human Resources Development.

Note: 

1.      The above table is just an outline for understanding of Funds in broad sense. For complete details, refer chapter VII of Indian Railways Finance Code volume I for allocation rules.