Grace marks to App.3 Exam, 2016 - NFIR's request to Railway Board

NFIR's request for Grace Marks



Railway Board's Reply



NFIR's latest appeal (Second time)

GCC - GENERAL CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT FOR SERVICES

• Railway Board releases New GCC - General Conditions of Contract for exclusively to Service Contracts.  
• Till the date, GCC for Works is applicable for such Service Contracts. It is 106 pages document released in January, 2018.  
• It helps to improve contract management, delivery of services and to reduce Government litigation, since Railways have entered more and more service contracts in non-operational areas such as cleaning, facilities management, consultancy etc.

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GCC for Services

Multiple choice Test on Sources of Finance under Demand No. 16

Test your knowledge in Sources of Finance under Demand No. 16

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Solved papers of App.3 exams (previous years)

Solved papers of

1. GRP - General Rules & Procedures

2. Advanced Book Keeping

3.  Books & Budget 

4.  General Expenditure 

 of Appendix 3 Exam 2016

Toppers - Appendix 3 Examination, 2016

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Results

Toppers - Appendix 3 Examination, 2016 

(tentative list only)

					Optional One		Optional Two
SN	Rollno	Name	ABK	GRP	With	Without	With	Without	Total             marks	%
1	00502	PRADEEP KUMAR VERMA	83	63	70	53	70	78	417	70
2	00554	MANISH KUMAR	81	66	66	65	63	61	402	67
3	02010	SHIVA PRASAD PATTANAIK	75	49	68	66	75	63	396	66
4	05009	RADHIKA SESHADRI	75	56	63	53	71	77	395	66
5	02517	Himmat Singh	83	65	70	69	53	55	395	66
6	01033	RAKESH KUMAR	53	77	70	66	60	64	390	65
7	00544	ADITYA RANJAN	75	70	71	64	53	54	387	65
8	02555	Pankaj Sharma	58	51	54	73	74	76	386	64
9	02034	DHUSASAN BEHERA	68	45	53	50	84	66	366	61
10	06621	NITISH KUMAR	49	79	56	47	60	65	356	59
11	00032	SHRI SHASHANK S.HALDAVNEKAR	44	60	42	51	75	79	351	59
12	06634	PRAVEEN KUMAR	57	64	60	62	54	54	351	59
13	03029	ALOK KUMAR	83	63	55	57	48	42	348	58
14	02580	Gaurav Chandana	40	61	64	47	65	66	343	57
15	01003	HARENDRA KUMAR	57	41	72	65	51	57	343	57
16	09619	V.SARANYA	33	40	73	71	61	62	340	57
17	05055	RAVIKUMAR K	40	56	52	42	82	67	339	57
18	08561	RAMANUJ PRASAD	54	45	43	48	80	67	337	56

Results appendix 3 exam - Analysis

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Results for Appendix 3 exam

Rough Analysis for Results

• 393 candidates are passed out of 2255 total candidates applied. Pass percentage is 17 %
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• 878 candidates are absent out of total 2255 candidates. That is 39 % candidates are absent for appearing the examination. 
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• That means 29 % candidates (393 candidates) are passed out of 1377 (2255-878) candidates appeared the examination

South Central Railway  - Results analysis

			%					%
Total appeared		66	58		Total passed		12	18
Total absent		47	42		Total failed		54	82
Total applied		113	100		Total appeared		66	100

Results - Appendix 3 IREM exam declared

 Results of Appendix 3 IREM examination declared

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Results for Appendix 3 exam

Deposit Works

Deposit Works

(chapter 18 of Engineering Code)

Ø  Definition – The works which are executed by Railways for other Govt depts, private firms or individuals.  So the cost is met from non-railway sources.

Ø  Examples of Deposit Works  -  1) Level Crossing required by the canal dept 10 years after the opening of line 2) culvert required by the Irrigation dept or a private individual 3) Electric/telephone wires required to be laid by Electric supply co or Telephone company over or under Railway line.

Ø  The concerned Dept/private firm/individual should approach the Railways for work executed duly furnishing a rough sketch of the work & other relevant particulars.

Ø  If agreed to execute such Deposit works by Railways:-

1.   Other Govt Depts – should accept the charges leviable to meet the cost of plans and estimates of the required works.

2.   Private parties – should deposit the charges leviable to meet the cost of plans and estimates of the required works with the Railways.

Ø  The detailed estimates should be prepared and got accepted by the applicants only after deposit the requisite cost of the estimates with the Railways.

Ø  As and when excess is anticipated, the same should be intimated to the concerned parties and got acceptance/deposit the excess charges as the case may be. 

Ø  Departmental Charges : These charges should be levied to cover the cost of tools & plant and of establishment supervision.  These charges levied at 12.5% on the total cost of the Deposit work (wages & material) include the cost of land.

Ø  Booking of expenditure: The amount deposited by the private parties should be credited to the “Deposit Misc” and the expenditure incurred on the said Deposit works should be charged/debited to the same Head “Deposit Misc”.

Ø  A separate register of Works should be maintained for all Deposit works in a Division.  Separate account should be kept for each Deposit work in that Register.  The postings in this Register should be totaled up and reconciled with the General Books monthly.  In case of works undertaken for other govt depts., suitable remarks as to the amounts adjusted monthly should be given in the register.  In case of private parties, the amount should be reconciled with the “Deposit Misc” head monthly and a certificate of reconciliation recorded in the register.

Ø  As and when the anticipated expenditure exceeds sanctioned estimate or sanctioned allotment of deposit made, the Executive Engineer should prepare the Revised Estimate and get sanctioned by the competent authority.

Ø  Completion:  on the completion, an intimation of the date of completion should be sent to the Accounts officer. Completion report in Form E1706 should be prepared showing the variations of actual expenditure with the sanctioned estimate and furnished to the party for whom the work was executed. Unexpended balance lying at the credit of “Deposit Misc” should be refunded to the party.

Ø  Model of “Deposit Misc” Suspense head. The balance of this Head always Credit balance.

                                 Deposit Misc A/c

Debit			Credit
Date	Particulars	Amt(Rs)	Date	Particulars	Amt(Rs)
10.01.2017	Works executed	80,000	01.01.2017	Cash deposited for executing the work	1,00,000
31.01.2017	Refund of unexpended amount	20,000
	Total	1,00,000	Total		1,00,000

 Maintenance:  All Deposit works in Railway premises should be maintained by the Railway administration at the cost of parties who applied for them.  Such maintenance charges should be recovered as follows.

(1) either a fixed percentage of the works, the rate being fixed by the General Manager.

(2) or actual expenditure (including departmental charges).

Ø  The Accounts Officer is responsible for recovery of Maintenance & other charges.

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Model SOP - Uniform to all Zonal Railways

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Model SOP - Oct 2017

REFORMS NEEDED FOR APPENDIX 3 (IREM) EXAM

REFORMS NEEDED FOR APPENDIX 3 (IREM) EXAM

v It's time to initiate the reforms by revisiting the structure, syllabus, pattern of the Appendix 3 (IREM) examination to suit the changing trends.

v The existing examination pattern, i.e., consisting of six papers (descriptive nature) is  archaic.  It should be replaced by the two Stages like prelims and Mains in Civil Services exams, JEE, NEET or other competitive exams.

v The Preliminary exam should consists of multiple choice questions.  It will be easy to conduct and as well as test the basic knowledge of candidates, before allowing them to appear in Mains examination. Tests on English skills, Reasoning skills, computer skills should be included apart from General Rules & Procedures (covering all subjects) for selection of talented supervisors in Accounts Dept.

v The preliminary examination should be conducted online.  Thereby time and expenditure will be saved with good transparency.

v  Removal of "With Books" Examination, because it has not served its purpose.  Instead, it creates confusion in the minds of candidates about carrying long list of carrying the codes and manuals.

Existing Papers	Proposed Papers
1. General Rules & Procedures – GRP	1. GRP –proposed to held in multiple choice format instead of descriptive in Prelims stage
2. Advanced Book Keeping	2. Continued
3. Optional one (with Books)	3. To be deleted
4. Optional One (without Books)	4. Continued
5. Optional Two (with Books)	5. To be deleted
6. Optional Two (Without Books)	6. Continued

OVERALL

Existing	Proposed
Six Descriptive papers	One multiple choice Paper and Three Descriptive papers

v Lot of advantages to the Administration, if adopted the pattern as two stages instead of single stage (6 Descriptive papers)

v Example : If 2000 candidates are appearing for Appendix -3 exam, the savings to the Administration is as follows.

Existing pattern	Proposed pattern	Savings
Evaluation of 12,000 answer papers i.e., 2000 x 6 (Descriptive)	Evaluation of 3,000 answer papers i.e., 1000 x 3 (descriptive) –subject to filtration of 50 % candidates only in prelims exam (multiple choice questions)	Almost 3/4th savings - evaluation of 9,000 answer papers (descriptive)

v Like other recruiting agencies i.e., UPSC, SSC, Time Table of Appendix-3 examination to be announced in the beginning of each calendar year.  It will enable the candidates to plan their preparedness for attempting the examination.

v  It should include Examination notification date, Last date for receipt of applications, Examination date, Date of announcement of results.

v Syllabus should be redesigned and made simple and defined clearly to suit the present trends, as the existing one is outmoded.  Subjects like Accrual accounting/Commercial accounting, costing, Information technology should be added to the syllabus.  

v Further, if the exam is divided into Two Stages, the candidates who have cleared Stage One will be much relieved to concentrate on the Optional subjects only.  (Because GRP consists of all the subjects cleared in First stage itself)

v Many more changes may be initiated depending on the present requirements of Indian railways Accounts dept.  

                                                

Link for Railway boards letter for appointing a committee recommending the incorporating multiple choice questions in examinations is as below.

LDCE - Reforms

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