2. Primary Units
• The primary units (object of expenditure) are
an important and integral part of the
classification of expenditures
• Serve to analyse the expenditure by the
element of cost viz., wages/stores/other
expenditure etc.
3. Primary Units
Revenue Allocation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
D.No Minor Head/Sub Head/Detailed Head Primary Unit/Object of expenditure
0 3 0 2 1 1 0 4
10. Revenue PU 08
Matching Contribution of
Central Govt towards Defined
Contribution Pension Scheme –
NPS Contribution by Govt
Operated in erstwhile Demand
No. 13 only
21. Revenue PU 20
Leave encashment during
Service – Total 60 days in
alternate years i.e., Block of two
years
Introduced in 2009 year
Same PU for Capital also
28. Revenue PU 27
Cost of Materials from Stock
Very Important Non Staff PU
i.e., Materials drawn from
Stores Depots
Erstwhile Demand No. 10 – Fuel
for Home Rly Rolling stock
PU 60 – Foreign Rly Rolling
Stock
29. Revenue PU 28
Cost of materials – Direct
Purchases
I.e., Stores drawn from outside
suppliers (other than Stores
Depots)
31. Revenue PU 30
Cost of Electrical Energy
Payments to Discoms / SEBs
Traction & Non Traction
Previously this expenditure
charged to PU 32
Previously – booked initially to DN
08 or 10 and later transferred to
respective Demands. Now straight
away booked to respective DNs .
Introduced in year 2015
32. Revenue PU 31
• Fuel - Direct Purchase
• Fuel – Issue from Stock - Track
machines, Generators, Road
Vehicles,
• Bio Diesel – other than traction
purpose
• However cost of lubricants,
furnace oil etc. will be booked
in PU 99.
• Introduced in 2018 year
33. Revenue PU 32
Contractual Payments (for Works
& handling contracts)
Used for Engineering supplies of
Materials
All other direct purchase of other
stores – booked to PU 28
Very Important Non Staff PU
(other PUs are 27 & 28)
34. Revenue PU 33
Used for acceptance of Debits &
Credits from other Units
GTKM Debits & Credits – now
charged to PU 61 (2015
onwards)
35. Revenue PU 34
Intra-railway adjustment of
wages on POH and other
repairs of Home Railways from
WMS account to revenue
heads
Foreign Railways POH – PU 63
36. Revenue PU 35
Intra-railway adjustment of
Material on POH and other
repairs from WMS account to
revenue heads
Foreign Railways POH – PU 64
49. Revenue PU 50
Computer hardware/system,
Software/application software
including expenditure on excise
/customs and sales tax; IT
related consultancy contracts,
cost of upgradation
Non Recurring expenditure
50. Revenue PU 51
Computer consumables
Examples: ribbons, cartridges
etc., discs, tapes, floppies,
computer stationary etc., rental
of computers and AMC
Recurring expenditure
54. Revenue PU 60
• Fuel from stock – home
railway locomotives fuelled
by foreign railway -
• Only Prime Cost
• Taxes on Fuel booked under
PU 33
55. Revenue PU 61
GTKM Debits / Credits
IRFA Adjustments (Indian Railway
Financial Adjustments)
(Previously booked under PU 33)
56. Revenue PU 63
Inter-Railway adjustment of
wages on POH and other repairs
of Foreign Railways from WMS
account to revenue heads
Home Railways POH – PU 34
57. Revenue PU 64
Inter-Railway adjustment of
Material on POH and other
repairs of Foreign Railways from
WMS account to revenue
heads
Home Railways POH – PU 35
62. Revenue PU 98
Credits or recoveries -
New PU created
Object of Credit – Distinct in
principal from an Object of
Expenditure
Previously booked to PU 99
(other expenses) – Very difficult
at the time of Budget estimates.
63. Revenue PU 99
Other Expenses
Any expenses is not classified in
above PUs, the same may be
allocated to PU 99