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A. ESTABLISHMENT RULES, FINANCIAL RULES AND
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ETC.
(i)
General conditions of service of Railway Servants.
(ii)
Railway Service D&A Rules - 1968.
(iii) Railway
Service (Conduct) Rules, 1966.
(iv) Settlement
dues admissible in SRPF & Pension Scheme.
(v) Payment
of Wages & Allowances and Overtime.
(vi) Labour Laws
including Payment of Wages Act. Workmen
Compensation Act, Hours of Employment Rules,
Railway Labour Tribunal, Factories Act, Industrial
Dispute Act, Contract Labour Act.
(vii) Welfare measures
on the Railways.
B. FINANCIAL RULES:
(i)
Parliamentary control over Railway Finance -
Public accountability, Canons of Financial
prosperity.
(ii)
Financial Manning & Budgeting.
(iii) Works
Programme - Financial justification of works -
Survey preparation of estimates, capital budget,
control over capital expenditure.
(iv) Financial
and cost control in Railway Workshops.
(v) Rules
and procedure relating to Tender and contractors
for execution of work and procurement of stores.
(vi) Delegation
of Powers.
(vii) M&P Programmes.
C. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
RAILWAYS:
(i)
Abbreviations.
(ii)
Codification of stock.
(iii)
Superlatives like fastest train of IR, longest
platform of IR, etc.
(iv) Other
general information about Railways.
D - I. GENERAL MATHS:
(i)
Arithmetic & Statistics - Graphs, Fractions,
Percentage, Sampling, Average, Ratio, Pmeans,
modes, S.D., Profit & Loss etc.
(ii)
Geometry - Area & Volume etc up to Higher
Secondary/Class-XII standard.
(iii) Algebra -
Simultaneous Equations etc. up to Higher
Secondary/Class-XII standard.
(iv) Mechanics:
Velocity & Acceleration, Work Power and Energy,
Newton's Laws, Archimedes Principle etc, up to
Higher Secondary/Class-XII standard.
2.
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Stress & Strain, Fatigue, hardness, corrosion and
surface finish etc.
3.
PHYSICS & BASIC ELECTRICITY
(i)
Temperature and its measurements.
(ii) Steam
Engines, I.C. Engines, Gas Turbines, Head Recovery
and Thermal Efficiency, supercharging &
inter-cooling.
(iii) Voltage
current and resistance, wet and dry batteries,
simple motor and dynamos, power factor.
E. OTHER ISSUES: Environment,
ISO-9000 and d-ISO-14000.
