Designed to help the candidates appearing the Appendix 3, LDCE, 70% etc of Railway Accounts
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
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)
As per mythology, Vasuki is famous for coiling around Shiva's neck, who blessed and wore him as an ornament. Vasuki took part in the incident of Samudra Manthana by allowing both the devas and the asuras to bind him to Mount Mandara, so that they could use him as their churning rope to extract the amrita from the ocean of milk.
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
India’s Longest freight train so far (as on 15.08.2022) - Super Vasuki
Super Vasuki - runs by SECR
DPCS stands for Distributed Power Control System
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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
Authority: Railway Board Letter No. E(GP)/2022/2/4 dated 22.07.2022 Click for the Railway Board letter
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 |