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TypeCommercial Circular
Topicfreight

Summary

वाि◌ण य Commercial When the goods are brought to the station for booking, the Goods Clerk

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AFP Commercial Reading Material

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INDEX

VOLUME – I

Chapter Title Page No.

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF INDIAN

1

1-5

RAILAYS

2 ACCOUNTS 6-69

3 CIVIL 70-144

4 COMMERCIAL 145-217

5 ELECTRICAL 218-325

6 LAW 326-394

7 MECHANICAL 395-477

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COMMERCIAL

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Contents

S. No.

Main Topics Page Nos.

1 Introduction

2 Organization of Commercial department

3 Functions of the Commercial Department

4 Books of Reference

5 Railway Websites

6 Passenger Business

7 Working in the Booking Office

8 Reservations of Accommodation

9 Cancellation of Reservation and Refund of Fare on

Unused or Partially Used Tickets etc.

10 Facility of Attendants

11 Other Miscellaneous Rules

12 Goods Business

13 Procedure of Booking Goods Traffic

14 Open Deliver and Assessment Delivery

15 Demurrage and Wharfage

16 Rebooking and Diversion

17 Parcel Business

18 Scales of Parcel Booking

19 Carriage of Luggage

20 Claims, Liabilities of Railways and RCT

21 NR Cell

22 Carriage of Railway Materials and Stores

23 Annexure I

24 Annexure II

25 Question Bank

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ORGANISATION OF COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT

OF INDIAN RAILWAYS

INTRODUCTION

The Commercial department is responsible for selling Railway services, for creating, designing and developing traffic, for securing and maintaining friendly relations with the travelling and trading customers and public at large, and for cultivating good public relations with them. The fixing of rates, fares and other charges and the correct collection, accountal and remittance of traffic receipts are also among its functions. The overall commercial activities, which are also called as railway business, are of two types – Freight and Coaching. Again, Coaching is divided into two – Passenger and Parcel.

Services offered by Railways

FREIGHT

PASSENGER

OTHERS Train Loads Suburban Non-Suburban Non-Suburban Parcels

Long distance Short distance

Wagon Loads EMU/DEMU Rajdhani/Shatabdi/ Passenger Luggage

Duronto

Containers MEMU Superfast Branch Line Catering

service including

MG/NG

Scheme- Conventional Mail/Exp/Intercity Rail Bus

Retiring Rooms oriented

Other business Double Decker Garib Rath Mixed Trains Cloak Rooms models-

oriented

ORGANISATION OF COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT

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At Railway Board Level:

Member Traffic, Railway Board is in-charge of Commercial as

Member (Traffic)

Additional Member

Additional Member

Addnl.Member (Computerisation

( Commercial )

(Catering & Tourism)

& Information Systems)

EDTraffic Commercial (Rates)

ED (Catering &

ED ( C&IS)

Tourism )

DTC (Rates)

DTC (C&T)

Director(C&IS)

ED (Passenger Marketing)

DTC (G)

DTC (G2)

Dir.(Passgr. Mktg.)

ED(Freight Marketing)

DFM

ED(Public Grievance)

DTC ( Claims)

well as Operating Departments at the Board's level. There is a Commercial Directorate under him headed by Addl. Member (Commercial). He is assisted by Executive Directors & Directors/Joint Directors, looking after portfolios of Freight Rates, Coaching Rates, Reservation Catering, Marketing, Claims & Refunds and Research. They are further assisted by Deputy Directors etc. His office looks after the core Commercial activities of Railways. Further, the offices of Additional Members (Catering & Tourism) and (Computerization & Information System) are also very important from marketing point of view. The former 

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