Selection Procedure of Investigating & Vigilance Inspectors In Railway

25-10-2022

Vacancies of Investigating Inspectors in the Railway Board are filled by drafting suitable persons from the different disciplines of Railway working for which purpose a notification is issued and applications are called for. Those recommended by the SDGMs / CVOs are subjected to a written test followed by Vigilance Aptitude and Computer Knowledge Test by a duly constituted Selection Committee. As applicable to Vigilance Inspectors of the Zonal Railways, Investigating Inspectors in the Vigilance Directorate, Railway Board hold their post on a tenure basis, the period of tenure being four years extendable to six years in individual case of special merit.  The Recruitment Rules framed for

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What kinds of brake systems do IR coaches and freight cars have?
July 16, 2019

In older stock, both passenger coaches and freight wagons, the continuous braking system consists of vacuum brakes. Newer stock is almost always air-braked. The guard often has mechanical brakes acting on his van. In addition, each piece of stock has mechanical parking brakes. Continuous brakes were tried out by the various railway companies in

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Where are IR’s freight wagons manufactured?
July 16, 2019

Most wagons today are manufactured by private firms such as CIMMCO, Texmaco, HDC, Besco, Binny Engineering Works, Titagarh, and Modern. Public-sector organizations such as Burn Standard Co., Braithwaite, Jessops, Bharat Wagon and Engg. Co. (these last four are held by the Bharat Bhari Udyog Nigam, Ltd.), Bridge and Roof, Indian Standard Wagon,

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What are CONCOR container consists?
July 16, 2019

CONCOR is the organization that handles container traffic in India. More details here. CONCOR has about 1905 BLC type low-bed wagons for fast container traffic. CONCOR also plans to acquire new 45-foot wagons to carry 22-foot domestic containers as well as 45-foot international containers, and also to take over some BRN wagons from IR and convert

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What other forms of train working are used on IR other than the block system?
July 16, 2019

Following trains system In this system, trains are worked between two stations by dispatching them one after the other (all in the same direction) at specific intervals (generally at least 15 minutes). The trains are run at specific speeds (less than 25km/h). This ensures that there should only be one train in every 5km stretch in the section

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What is the ‘authority to proceed’?
July 16, 2019

Authority to proceed is the formal name for the permission or authorization that allows a driver to take a train into a section of track, in either block or non-block systems of working. It is also known as train working authority. In places where token block instruments are in use, block tokens constitute the authority to proceed. Normally in

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What is Permissive Block (or Absolute Permissive Block) Signalling?
July 16, 2019

Normally, in Absolute Block Signalling, the single-line section between points where sidings or loops are provided must be treated as a single block in order to prevent two trains from entering it at the same time. However, this also reduces track utilization in the case of trains following one another in the same direction. In these cases, a

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