Indian Railway Codes and Manuals-Establishment code- Vol-I-Chapter-1 (I)
Chapter
1
General
101. scope and extent of Application.—This Chapter and the next contain the rules governing
general conditions of service applicable to Railway servants. Some of
these rules correspond to the Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules
applicable to all Civil servants (other than Railway servants) under the Indian
Union, who are subject to the rule making powers by the President.
102. Power to interpret rules. —The power of interpreting the rules in this volume is
reserved to the President.
103. Definitions.
—Unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context, the terms
defined below are used in this Code in the sense herein explained.
(1)
Accounts officer means an
Officer of the Accounts Department as defined in para 102 of the Indian Railway
Code for the Accounts Department.
(2) The act means the
government of India Act, 1935.
(3) Actual
travelling expenses means the actual cost of transporting railway
servant with his domestic servant and personal luggage, including charges for
ferry and other tolls and for carriage of camp equipment if necessary. It
does not include charges for hotels, travelers bungalow or refreshments
or for the carriage of stores or conveyances or any allowance for such
incidental losses or expenses as the breakage of crockery, wear and tear of
furniture and the employment of additional domestic servants.
(4)
Apprentice means a person
deputed for training in a training in a trade or business with a view to
employment in railway service, who draws pay at monthly rates from Government
during such training but is not employed in or against a substantive vacancy in
the cadre of a department.
(5) Average
Pay means the average monthly pay earned during the 10 complete months
immediately preceding the month in which the even occurs which necessitates the
calculation of average pay.
Provided that in respect of any period
spent on foreign service out of India the pay which the railway servant would
have drawn if on duty in India but for foreign service out of India shall be
substituted for the pay actually drawn:
Provided further that in the case of
railway servants entitled to running allowance, average pay for the purpose of
leave salary shall include a fixed component representing the pay element in
the running allowances, as notified by the government through
administrative instructions from time to time.
(6) Assistant
Officer means an Officer in Group, ‘A’ drawing pay on the scale
applicable to junior scale officers.
(7)
Cadre means the strength
or a service or a part of a service sanctioned as a separate unit.
(8) Camp
equipage means the apparatus for moving a camp.
(9) Camp
equipment means tents and the requisites for pitching and furnishing
them, or where tents are not carried, such articles of camp furniture as it may
be necessary, in the interests of the public service, for a railway servant to
take with him on tour.
(10) Compensatory
Allowance means an allowance granted to meet personal expenditure
necessitated by the special circumstances in which duty is
performed. It includes a traveling allowance.
(11) Competent
Authority in relation to the exercise of any power under these rules,
means the President or any authority to which such power is delegated in
Appendix VI.
(12) Constitution means
the Constitution of India.
(13) Day means
a calendar day, beginning and ending at midnight; but an absence from
headquarters which does not exceed twenty-four hours shall be reckoned
for all purposes as one day, at whatever hours the absence begins or
ends.
(14) Department
of a railway administration means one of the braches constituted for
the purpose of conducting the business of the railways.
(15) ‘Divisional
Officer’ means an officer in group ‘A’ drawing pay on the scale
applicable to senior Scale officer.
(16) Duty—(a)
Duty includes—
(i) Service
as Probationer or apprentice. Provided that such service is followed by
confirmation.
(ii) Joining
time.
(b) A
competent authority may issue orders declaring that , in circumstances similar
to those mentioned below, a railway servant may be treated as on duty—
(i) During a course of
instruction or training in India.
(ii)
In the case of a student, stipendiary or otherwise, who is entitled to be
appointed to the service of Government on passing through a course of training
at a University, College or School in India, during the interval between
the satisfactory completion of the course and his assumption of duties.
GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA ORDERS
(1) Time
spent in attending obligatory Departmental Examinations. —A Government
servant required to attend an obligatory departmental examination, or permitted
to present himself at an examination the passing of which is a condition of
preferment in Government Services, may treated as on duty during the day or
days of the examination and during the reasonable time required for the
journey, if any to an from the place of examination.
(G.I., F.D. Memo No. F.17 R. 1/29
dated 23rd Jan. 1929.)
(2)
The phrase “condition of preferment” used in (1) above covers only compulsory
or optional examinations for promotion within the normal scope of the
Government servants department or office.
(G.I., F.D No.F/15(5) R. 1/31 dt.
25rh March 1931.)
(3) Delay
in taking charge of the duties.—Period of Compulsory waiting by an officer
for orders of Government posting him to a particular post, after he had
reported should be treated as ‘Duty’.
(G.I., F.D. Res. No.122 C.S.R. dt.
10th Feb.1922, No.175 C.S.R. dt.28-2-1922,No F.192 C.S.R. 25
dt.20-6-1925.)
(4) Treating
period of training as duty.—The authorities competent to appoint the
government servant to the post for which the training is essential may be
empowered to treat the period of training or instruction in India of Government
servants on duty under this rule subject to the following conditions:
(a) the
training or instruction should be in India;
(b) the
training or instruction should be connected with the post which the Government
servant is holding at the time of placing him on training or instruction;
(c) that
it is obligatory on the part of the Government to send the persons for
such training or instructions;
(d) the
training should not be in professional or technical subjects which are normally
brought under the provisions relating to ‘Study Leave’; and
(e) the
period of training should not exceed one year.
( G.I.M.F. O..M. No.F2(71)
Estt.III/60, dt.3rd December, 1960.)
(5) Attending
Hindi and other obligatory examination.—A question has been raised
whether a Government servant is expected to report for duty in office either
before or after the examination is over, in case the examination, including the
viva voce test commences in the forenoon or in the afternoon. It has been
decided that
(i)
in case where the
examination is held in a day both in the forenoon and in the afternoon, the
Government servants need not be required to attend office either before or
after the examination, and
(ii) in
case where the examination is held only in the forenoon or in the afternoon,
the Government servants must attend office in the afternoon/forenoon, as the
case may be, unless the Head of Office/Department specifically exempts any or
all Government servants from such attendance, having regard to the time
schedule of the text and the distance between the place of duty and
examination.
(G.I. MHA. O.M.No.5/165-H dated 8th June,
1965.)
Audit
Instructions
Scope of the term “probationers”—(a) The term “probationers” does not cover a
Government servant who hold substantively a permanent post in a cadre and is
appointed on probation to another post.
(b)
No person appointed substantively to a permanent post in cadre is a
probationer, unless definite conditions (such as the condition that he must
remain on probation pending the passing of certain examination) have been
attached to his appointment.
(c
) The status of the
probationer is to be considered as having the attributes of a substantive
status except where the rules prescribed otherwise.
(17) Family means
a railway servant’s wife/husband, legitimate children and stepchildren residing
with and wholly dependent upon him/her. It also includes parents, sisters
and minor brothers residing with and wholly dependent upon him/her.
Provided further that for Rule 615
it includes only such of the dependent relatives as are eligible for passes
under the Pass Rules.
Note 1. —Not more than one wife is included in this term.
Note 2. —The term “legitimate children” includes those adopted
under the law.
(18) Fee means
a recurring or non-recurring payment to a railway servant from a source other
than the Consolidated Fund of India or the consolidated Fund of a State or the
Consolidated Fund of a Union Territory whether made directly to the railway
servant or indirectly through the intermediary of Government but does not
include—
(a)
unearned income such as income from property, dividends and interest on
securities; and
(b)
income from literary, cultural, artistic, scientific or technological
efforts. If such efforts are not aided by the knowledge acquired by the
railway servant in the course of his service.
(19) Foreign
Service means service in which a railway servant receives his
pay with sanction of Government from any source other than the Consolidated
Fund of India, or the Consolidated Fund of a State or the Consolidated Fund of
a Union Territory.
(20) Gazetted
Post is a post to which appointment is made by notification in the
Gazette of India.
(21) Head
of a department means any authority which the President may by order
declare to be the head of a department for the purpose of these Rules.
(22) Hill-Station means
any place which a competent authority may declare to be a hill station.
(23) Holiday means
(a) a holiday prescribed or notified by or under section 25 of the
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, and (b) in relation to any particular office,
a day on which such office is ordered to be closed by a competent authority for
the transaction of Government business without reserve or qualification.
Note.—During restricted holidays the office is not closed for
transaction of business but they are treated as a kin to other closed holidays
and can be prefixed or suffixed to regular leave or casual leave.
(24) Honorarium means
a recurring or non-recurring payment granted to a railway servant from the
Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of a State or the
Consolidated Fund of a Union Territory, as remuneration for special work of an
occasional or intermittent character.
(25) Joining
time means the time allowed to a Railway servant in which to join a
new post or to travel to or from a station to which he posted.
(26) Leave
on average (half average) pay means leave on leave salary equal to
average/half average pay, as regulated by the Railway Leave Rules.
(27) Leave
Salary means the monthly amount paid by Government to a Railway
servant on leave.
(28) Lien means
the title of a Railway servant to hold on regular basis either immediately or
on the termination of a period or periods of absence, a post, including a
tenure post, to which he has been appointed on regular basis and on which he is
not on probation Provided that the title to hold a regular post shall be
subject to the condition that the junior most person in the grade will be
liable to be reverted to the lower grade if the number of persons so entitled
is more than the posts available in that grade.
(Authority:- Railway Board’s letter
No. E(NG)I-98/CN5/2 dt.5-2-99)
29. Local Fund means—
(a) revenue administered by bodies
which by law or rule having the force of law come under the control of
Government, whether in regard to proceedings generally or to specific matters,
such as the sanctioning of the budgets, sanction to the creation or filling up
of particular posts, or the enactment of leave, pension or similar rules;
and
(b)the revenues of any body which
may be specifically notified by the President as such.
(30) (a) Military
Commissioned Officer means a commissioned officer other than
(i) a departmental Commissioned
Officer;
(ii) a Commissioned Officer of the Indian Medical Department.
It does not include a Warrant Officer.
(b) Military Officer means
any officer falling within the definition of the Military Commissioned Officer,
or included in sub-clause (i) or (ii) of clause (a) above or any Warrant
Officer.
(31) Ministerial Officer means
a railway servant of group ‘C’ whose duties are entirely clerical and other
class of railway servants specially defined as such by general or special order
of a compeptent authority.
Government of India’s decision.—The President has decided that those members of class II
(Group B) service whose duties are predominantly clerical shall be classed as
ministerial servants.
(G.I.F.D. Letter No. F.11(6) R I/33 dated 1st April,
1933.)
(32) Month means a
calendar month. In calculating a period expressed in terms of months and
days, complete calendar months, irrespective of the number of days in each,
should first be calculated and the odd number of days calculated subsequently
taking 30 odd numbers of days as a month.
Audit
Instructions
Calculation of a period expressed in terms of months and
days
(a) To
calculate 3 months and 20 days on and from 25th January the
following method should be adopted.
Y
M D
25th January to 31st January
.
.
. 0
0 7
February to
April .
.
.
. 0
3 0
1st May to 13th May
.
.
.
. 0
0 13
Total
.
. 0
3 20
(b) The period commencing on 30th January
and ending with 2nd March should be deemed as 1 month and 4
days as indicated below:--
Y
M D
30th January to 31st January
.
.
. 0
0 2
February
.
.
.
.
.
0
1 0
1st March to 2nd March
.
.
.
. 0
0 2
Total
.
. 0
1 4
(33) Officiating means the railway servant
officiates in a post where he performs the duties of a post on which any other
person holds a lien or when a competent authority appoints him to officiate in
a vacant post on which no other railway servant holds lien.
(34) Overseas Pay
means pay granted to a Railway servant in consideration of the fact that he is
serving in a country other than the country of his domicile.
(35) Pay means the
amount drawn monthly by a railway servant as
(i) the
pay other than special pay or pay granted in view of his personal
qualifications, which has been sanctioned for a post held by him substantively
or in an officiating capacity, or to which he is entitled by reason of his
position in a cadre;
(ii) Overseas
pay, special pay and personal pay; and
(iii) any
other emoluments which may be specially classed as pay by the President.
(36) Permanent Post means
a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned without limit of time.
(37) Personal Pay means
additional pay granted to a railway servant—
(a) to save him
from a loss of substantive pay in respect of a permanent post other than a
tenure post due to a revision of pay or to any reduction of such substantive
pay otherwise than as a disciplinary measure; or
(b) in exceptional
circumstances, on other personal considerations.
(38) Post in the Railway
Board means the post of a Member of the Railway Board and includes the
post of Chairman, Railway Board and of Financial Commissioner,
Railways.
(39) Presumptive pay of a
post.—When used with reference to any particular railway servant means the
pay to which he would be entitled if he held the post substantively and were performing
its duties, but it does not include special pay unless the Railway servant
performs or discharges the work or responsibility in consideration of which
special pay was sanctioned.
Audit instructions.—The first part of the definition is intended to facilitate
the use of the term in relation to a Government servant who has been absent
from a post for some time but still retains a lien on it.
(40) Probationer means
a railway servant employed on probation in or against a substantive vacancy in
the cadre of a department.
(41) Public conveyance means
a train , steamer or other conveyance which plies regularly for the conveyance
of passengers.
(42) Railway School means
a school established by a railway or office/project factory directly under the
railway Board primarily for the benefit of the children of its employees and
maintained and entirely controlled by it with or without assistance from
revenues of a State or income from other non-railway source. It does not
include a school to which a railway merely makes a grant-in-aid.
(43) Railway servant means
a person who is a member of a service or holds a post under the administrative
control of the Railway Board. It also includes a person who is holding the post
of Chairman, Financial Commissioner or a Member of the Railway Board.
Persons lent from a service or post which is not under the administrative
control of the Railway Board to a service or post which is under such
administrative control do not come within the scope of this definition. The term
excludes casual labour.
(44) Special Pay means
an addition of the nature of pay, to the emoluments of a post or of a Railway
servant, granted in consideration of –
(a) the specially arduous
nature of duties; or
(b) a specific addition to the work
or responsibility and includes non-practicing allowance granted to doctors in
lieu of private practice.
Audit Ruling – A provision in the contract of a Government servant
appointed to a particular post that he should “also do all things that may be
required of him” does not contemplate this being required to perform onerous
additional duties in another post without remuneration.
Government of India Orders.- The power of granting special pay was defined in this Rule
shall be exercised only by the authority empowered to regulate the scales of
ordinary pay.
(G.I.,H.D. No. F. 272-23 dated
16-12-1926.)
(45) Scales of pay
‘Authorised scales of pay’ means
the scales of pay introduced under the Railway Services (Authorised Pay) Rules,
1960.
‘Revised Scales of Pay’ means the scales of pay introduced under the Railway
Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 1973.
(46) Subsistence grant means
a monthly grant made to a Railway servant who is not in receipt of pay or
leave-salary.
(47) Substantive pay means
the pay other than special pay, personal pay or emoluments classed as pay by
the President under Sub-rule 35 (iii), to which a railway servant is entitled
on account of a post to which he has been appointed substantively or by
reason of his substantive position in a cadre.
Note: In the case of a person with a lien on a permanent post
under a State Government, ‘Substantive Pay’ means the substantive pay as
defined in the relevant rules of the State Government
concerned.
(48) Temporary post means
a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned for a limited time.
(49) Tenure post means
a permanent post which an individual railway servant may not hold for more than
a limited period.
Note.—In case of doubt the President shall decide whether a
particular post is or is not a tenure post.
Railway Ministry’s decision.—The President has decided that there is no objection to a
non-gazetted post outside the cadre of a regular service being declared
as a tenure post if the conditions so warrant.
(50) (a) Time-scale
pay means pay which, subject to any conditions prescribed in these
rules, rises by periodical increments from a minimum to a maximum. It
includes the class of pay formerly known as progressive.
(b)Time-scales are said to be identical
if the minimum, the maximum, the period of increment and the rate of increment
of the time scale are identical.
(c)A post is said to be on the same
time-scale as another post on a time-scale if the two time-scales are identical
and the posts fall within a cadre, or a class in a cadre, such cadre or class
having been created in order to fill all posts involving duties of
approximately the same character or degree of responsibility, in a service or
establishment or group of establishments; so that the pay of the holder of any
particular post is determined by this position in the cadre, or class and not
by the fact that he holds that post.
(51) Transfer means
the movement of a railway servant from one headquarter station in which he is
employed to another such station, either -
(a) to
take up the duties of a new post, or
(b) in
consequence of a change of his headquarter.
(52) Traveling allowance means
an allowance granted to a railway servant to cover the expenses which he incurs
in travelling in the interests of the public service. It includes
allowances granted for the maintenance of conveyances and tents.
104. Pensionable Service.
– (1) The service of all railway servant except those mentioned in rule 105
shall be pensionable.
(2) All railway servants who were already pensionable prior to the introduction
of Pension Scheme on Railway with effect from 1st April,
1957.
(3) Government servants permanently transferred to the Railway Department from
other Government departments in which the services were pensionable.
105. Non-pensionable Service.- Subject to what has been stated in rule 104 the service
of the railway servants who entered service before 16th November,
1957, and who after introduction of pension scheme on Railways did not opt for
it, when options were open from time to time, shall be
non-pensionable. They continue to be eligible for the benefits of State
Railway Provident Fund and for gratuity in accordance with the rules prescribed
in that behalf.
CLASSIFICATION
OF SERVICES
106. For the purpose of these rules, the Railway services shall be
classified as follows with effect from 01.01.2016:
(a) Gazetted
(1) Railway
Services Group A
(2) Railway
Services, Group B
(b) Non-Gazetted
(1) Railway
Services, Group C
(2) Workshop
Staff (Group C)
107. (1)
with effect from 17.01.2023, subject to exceptions made in the footnotes below
and also subject to such exceptions as Ministry of Railways may, by any general
or special orders make from time to time, Railway Service posts shall be
classified as follows:
|
Sl.
No. |
Description
of posts |
Classification
of Posts |
|
1 |
A Railway service post carrying
the pay in the Pay Matrix at the Level from 10 to 17 excluding the posts
falling in Sl. Nos. (2) and (3) below. |
Group
‘A’/Gaz. |
|
2 |
A Railway service post carrying
the pay in the Pay Matrix at Level-8 & 9 excluding the posts
falling in Sl. No. 3 below: The posts of Assistant Nursing
Officer in Level-10 of the Pay Matrix, Principal/Head Master/Head Mistress
(Secondary/High School & equivalent) (Basic Grade and Sr. Grade) in
Level-10 and Level-11 of the Pay Matrix and Non-functional Grade of Group ‘B’
Gaz. posts of various Organized Railway Services & RBSS/RBSSS in Level-10
of the Pay Matrix will continue to be classified as Group ‘B’ Gaz. |
Group
‘B’/Gaz. |
|
3. |
A Railway service post carrying
the pay in the Pay Matrix at the Level from 1 to 7 and the posts of Sr.
SO(Accounts), Sr. Travelling Inspector(Accounts), Sr. Inspector (Store
Accounts) in Level-8 and Level-9(Non-Functional) of the Pay Matrix; Sr.
Nursing Superintendent in Level-8 of the Pay Matrix, Chief Nursing
Superintendent in Level-10 of the Pay Matrix; Primary School Teacher/Trained
Graduate Teacher/Post Graduate Teacher and equivalent (Basic/Senior/Selection
Grade) working in Level-8/9/10/11 of the Pay Matrix; Senior Dietician in
Level-8 of the Pay Matrix, will continue to be classified as Group ‘C’. The Group ‘C’ Cadres upgraded to
Level-8 and Level-9(Non-Functional) in terms of Board’s letter RBE No.
155/2022 dated 17.11.2022 (F. No. PC-VII/2019/RSRP/3) will continue to be
classified as Group ‘C’. |
Group
‘C’ |
Notes:
(a) A
person placed in higher Level of the Pay Matrix under in situ promotion
Scheme/MACP Schemes will continue to retain the classification of his Basic
Post.
(b) The
classification of Non-functional posts, Sr. and Selection Grade posts of
Teaching/School staff will continue to remain the same as applicable to Basic
Grade post.
(c) The Assistant
Section Officers of Railway Board Secretariat Services (RBSS) and Personal
Assistants of Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service (RBSSS) will
continue to be classified as Group ‘B’ (Non Gazetted) as laid down
in respective service rules.
(d) If higher
classification than that indicated above is presently prescribed for any
specific post in the respective service rules, the same shall continue till
further orders.
2.
Posts created subsequent to date of effect of these orders as specific
additions to existing cadres shall have the same classification as posts in the
cadre to which they are added.
3. For
the purpose of this order, “Pay Matrix” means the Matrix specified in Part A of
the Schedule to Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016. Further, “Level” in
Pay Matrix means the Level corresponding to the existing Pay Band and Grade Pay
or Scale specified in Part A of Schedule to Railway Services (Revised Pay)
Rules, 2016.
(Authority: Ministry of Railways’ letter No.
PC-VII/2017/RSRP/2 dated 17.01.2023)
108. Establishments
and categories (including probationers) falling under the services mentioned in
rule 106 are shown below:
Group A
(1) Posts
in the Railway Board;
(2) Advisors
in Railway Board;
(3)
Directors, Additional directors, Joint Directors, Deputy Directors, Railway
Board and Research Design and Standards Organisation; Secretary, Joint
Secretaries; Deputy Secretaries, Under-Secretaries, Railway Board;
(4)
Indian Railway Service of Engineers;
(5)
Indian Railway Accounts Services;
(6)
Indian Railway Traffic Services;
(7)
Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers;
(8)
Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers;
(9)
Indian Railway Service of Signal Engineers;
(10)
Indian Railway Medical Services;
(11)
Indian Railway Stores services;
(12)
Indian Railway Personnel Services;
(13) Such
posts in general Administration and Miscellaneous Departments (e.g. Chemical
& Metallurgical Department, Cash & Pay Department.)
Group
‘B’
Gazetted posts not included in Group A
Note.—Temporary
Assistant Officers will not be classified either as Group A or Group
B.
Group
‘C’
All
Posts classified as Group ‘C’ under Rule 107.
Group
‘D’
All
Posts classified as Group ‘D’ under Rule 107.
Workshop
Staff
All categories of Group C & D
staff employed in workshops other than those employed in clerical, skilled or
supervisory categories and not included in Group C or Group D
above.
109. Scales of pay of Groups A & B Railway Servants.—(1)
the Revised scales of pay admissible to Railway servants in Group A & B
shall be as notified by government with the sanction of the President.
No alteration in the scale of pay of
a post or service can be made without the sanction of the President.
(2) The pay of Group A Railway
Officer in Junior Scale on appointment to a Senior Scale post in an organized
Railway Service shall be fixed under Rule 1313 (FR-22) (I) (a) (1) ) of the
Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume II (Sixth Edition-1987).
Railway Ministry’s decision.—A Junior Scale Officer can be considered eligible for
promotion to Senior Scale only after putting in 4 years service (including the
period of probation) in Junior Scale. But, if in the interest of
Administration, one is promoted to Senior scale before completing four years in
Junior Scale, he will draw pay in the Junior Scale plus a charge Allowance of
Rs.300/- per month subject to the condition that pay plus Charge Allowance
should not exceed the pay that would have been admissible had it been fixed
under Rule 1313 (FR—22) (I) (a) (1) ) of the Indian Railway Establishment
code, Volume-II (Sixth Edition-1987) on regular basis.
110. Sanctioned strength of cadres.—Subject to any statutory provision in this regard, the
strength including both the number and character of posts of the Railway
Services, Group A and B, shall be determined by the railway Ministry.
General Managers of Indian Railways will have powers to create gazetted posts
in Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’, only to the extent stipulated in Item (3) of
Annexure II of Chapter V of Indian Railway Financial Code Vol.I (First
Edition—1982) subject to such limits and instructions as may be laid down by
the Railway Ministry from time to time.
Note.—“GMs are empowered, to vary solely in the public interest,
having regard to changes in the work and responsibilities of the posts
concerned, (and not in the interest of officers) the distribution of posts
within that grade, provided the total number of sanctioned gazette post in any
grade (Heads of Department, Deputy Heads of Department, Senior Scale, Junior
Scale and Group B officers) of the service concerned is not exceeded. Board’s
approval will continue to be required for variation of posts of PHODs of the
concerned service and SAG and above posts of IRHS and IRPFS.”
(Authority:- Railway Board letter no 2022/E(GC)16-3
dated18.04.2023 ACS No 146)
111. The cadres of the services and departments included in
Railway services Groups A & B (other than Medical Department and
specialists) posts on Indian Railways shall be fixed in accordance with the
principles states below:--
(1) Separate
cadres shall be maintained for each Indian railway.
(2) (a) The number of permanent
working posts, that is , posts required for ordinary duty on a railway, shall
first be determined for each service or department and divided into the following
grades:--
(i) Senior
Administrative Grade Level I
(ii) Senior
Administrative Grade Level II
(iii) Administrative
Grade Scale Rs.2000-2250
(iv) Junior
Administrative Grade
(v) Senior
Scale
(vi) Junior
Scale/Group ‘B’.
(b) The General Working posts,
that is post required for general purposes of the railway which may be filled
by gazetted railway officers of any service may be determined and divided in
the same manner.
(c ) The number of posts to be
allotted to the Junior Scale shall be calculated with reference to the total
number of Administrative Grade and Senior Scale posts, and shall be so fixed as
to allow a continuous flow of promotion from lower to higher grade after a
given period of service. For this purpose all the administrative posts,
including the general administrative posts shall be taken into account.
(d) The rest of the posts included
in (2) (a) (vi) above shall be allotted to group ‘B’.
(e) The total number of posts thus
arrived at for each grade in a department shall from the permanent duty
strength of each service or department.
(3) Posts required for meeting
deputation leave and training requirements will be provided in Junior Scale
based on requirements assessed from time to time. These posts shall be
intended ordinarily to provide for the deputation/training of and or grant of
leave to a member of the Department without the necessity of making an
officiating appointment to the Junior Scale or to Group B post in the chain or
vacancies consequent on the deputation, training of and/or grant of leave to
the member in question.
(4) The permanent duty strength
together with the posts sanctioned as “deputation, training
and leave reserve” shall from the total permanent cadre of the service or
department concerned.
112. The permanent strength of the Medical Department shall
be fixed with reference to the permanent posts required for ordinary duty and
will include at the Additional Divisional Medical Officer’s level a leave and
deputation reserve of 20 per cent of the permanent working posts.
Instruction
for working the Cadres
113. Excess over sanctioned number. – The number of posts sanctioned for each grade in a
department shall in no case be exceeded without the sanction of the authority
competent to create a post, either permanent or temporary, in the
grade.
114. General Posts. –
If a general post included in the permanent cadre of a service or department is
held by a member of another service or department, such post shall be treated,
for the purpose of comparing sanctions with actuals, as permissible additions
to the permanent cadre of the latter department by a corresponding reduction in
the permanent cadre of the former, for the period for which such arrangement
lasts.
115. Reversion to open line. – When a permanent open line gazetted railway officer
holding a post in the office of the Railway Board or in an
office/project/organisation directly subordinate to that authority proceeds on
leave, deputation or attains superannuation he shall be treated as having
reverted to the Railway on the cadre of which he is borne, except,
(i) When
he is expected to return to his post at the end of the leave; and
(ii) Either
the leave taken by him is leave on average pay not exceeding four months or he
holds a permanent post in the office/project/organisation.
On reversion to the parent railway
he shall be considered as a permissible excess over the permanent cadre of that
railway for the period of his leave.
116. Holding of posts in abeyance or keeping them
unfilled.—No gazetted post in Group A or B may be held in abeyance without
the sanction of the authority competent to create it. If it is proposed
to keep such post(s) unfilled for more than six months, the matter shall be
reported to the Railway Ministry.
Note.—For the purpose of this rule, when the duties of a
post are performed by another officer in addition to his own duties such post
shall be considered to have been kept unfilled.
117. Checks to be applied to cadres.—The cadres shall be checked in the manner prescribed in the
Indian Railway Code for the Accounts Department and all reasonable precautions
(e.g. reversion of the officers officiating) taken before hand to prevent the
occurrence of avoidable excess over the cadre.
118. Tenure posts. –
(1) The President may declare any posts outside the cadre of a regular service
as tenure.
(2) No
officer in Group A shall in the normal course hold any of the posts noted below
for more than the periods shown against each:-
|
Posts in Railway Board |
5 years |
|
Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Railway
Board. |
4 years |
|
Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Research
Design and Standard Organisation. |
4 years |
|
Railway Liaison Officer |
4 years |
|
Divisional Railway Manager, Additional Divisional Railway
Manager, Deputy General Manager. |
3 years |
(3)Confirmation in tenure post is dispensed with.
Cadres
of Railway Servants—Group C & Group D
119. In the Railway Board and attached offices.—The number and character of Group C & D posts in the
office of the Railway Board and other offices, projects, organizations,
immediately under its control shall be such as may be determined by the Railway
Board. The director General, Research, Designs and Standards Organisation
or any other authority to whom the powers may be specifically delegated by the
Railway Board may create temporary posts on the conditions prescribed in their
respective schedules of power.
120. On Railways, Production Units or other
Establishments.—The number and character of Group C & D posts may be
determined by the General Managers or the authority to whom such powers are
delegated, provided that the prior sanction of the Railway Ministry is necessary
for the introduction of a new category not already obtaining on a
Railway.
121. Scales of Pay.—All the posts in Group C & D
shall be on the Revised Scales of Pay. The introduction of a new Revised
Scale for a particular category shall require the prior sanction of the Railway
Ministry.
122. Supernumerary Posts.—Supernumerary posts are
permanent posts created under special circumstances for operation for a limited
period as such at the discretion of the competent authority to create the
posts in the administrative convenience.
Government
of India’s Orders
While it is obviously not possible
to give an exhaustive list of the circumstances in which supernumerary posts
may be created, the following broad principles governing the creation of such
posts may be indicated.—
(i) A
supernumerary post is normally created to accommodate the lien of an officer,
who, in the opinion of the authority competent to create such a post, is
entitled to hold a lien against a regular permanent post but who, due to
non-availability of a regular permanent post, cannot have his lien against such
post.
(ii) It
is shadow post i.e. , no duties are attached to such posts. The officer,
whose lien is maintained against such a post, generally performs duties
in some other vacant temporary or permanent posts.
(iii) It
can be created only if another vacant permanent or temporary post is available
to provide work for the person, whose lien is retained by the creation of the
supernumerary post. In other words, it should not be created in
circumstances which, at the time of creation of the post or thereafter, would
lead to an excess of the working strength.
(iv) It
is always a permanent post. Since, however, it is a post created for
accommodating a permanent officer till he is absorbed in a regular permanent
post, it should not be created for an indefinite period as other permanent
posts are, but should normally be created for a definite and fixed period
sufficient for the purpose in view.
(v) It
is personal to the officer for whom it is created and no other officer
can be appointed against such a post. It stands abolished as soon as the
officer for whom it was created vacates it on account of retirement or
confirmation in another regular permanent post or for any other reason. In
other words, no officiating arrangements can be made against such a post.
Since a supernumerary post is not a working post, the number of working posts
in cadre will continue to be regulated in a manner that, if a permanent incumbent
of one of the regular posts returns to the cadre and all the posts are manned,
one of the officer of the cadre will have to make room, for him. He
should not be shown against a supernumerary post.
(vi) No
extra financial commitment is involved in the creation of such posts in the
shape of increased pay and allowances, pensionary benefits etc.
POWER
TO FRAME RULES
123. The Railway Board have full powers to make rules of
general application to Group C & Group D railway servants under their
control.
124. The General Managers of Indian Railways have full
powers to make rules with regard to railway servants in Group C & D under
their control provided they are not inconsistent with any rules made by the
President or the Ministry of Railways.
Multiple choice questions:
- Who holds the power to interpret the rules in this
volume?
- a) The Prime Minister
- b) The President
- c) The Railway Minister
- d) The Chief Justice
Answer: b) The President
- What does the term "Accounts officer" refer
to?
- a) A person responsible for maintaining railway
tickets
- b) An officer of the Accounts Department
- c) A railway servant in charge of train schedules
- d) A railway employee managing station operations
Answer: b) An officer of the Accounts Department
- What is included in "Actual travelling
expenses"?
- a) Charges for hotels and refreshments
- b) Cost of transporting railway servant, domestic
servant, and personal luggage
- c) Allowance for incidental losses or expenses
- d) Employment of additional domestic servants
Answer: b) Cost of transporting railway servant, domestic servant,
and personal luggage
- Who is defined as an "Apprentice"?
- a) A person with a permanent post in the railway
service
- b) A person deputed for training in a trade or
business with a view to employment in railway service
- c) A senior railway officer
- d) A temporary employee in the railway service
Answer: b) A person deputed for training in a trade or business
with a view to employment in railway service
- How is "Average Pay" calculated for railway
servants entitled to running allowance?
- a) By averaging the last three months' salary
- b) By excluding all running allowances
- c) By including a fixed component representing the pay
element in the running allowances
- d) By considering only the basic pay
Answer: c) By including a fixed component representing the pay
element in the running allowances
- What does the term "Cadre" refer to?
- a) The strength or a service or a part of a service
sanctioned as a separate unit
- b) The total number of railway servants employed in a
station
- c) The number of trains operated by a particular
division
- d) The hierarchical structure of railway officials
Answer: a) The strength or a service or a part of a service
sanctioned as a separate unit
- Which of the following is included under
"Compensatory Allowance"?
- a) Basic pay
- b) Bonus for performance
- c) Allowance granted to meet personal expenditure
necessitated by special circumstances
- d) Pension benefits
Answer: c) Allowance granted to meet personal expenditure
necessitated by special circumstances
- What does "Constitution" refer to in the
context of this document?
- a) The set of rules governing the railway's internal
operations
- b) The Constitution of India
- c) The guidelines set by the Railway Board
- d) The fundamental rules of the Railway Act
Answer: b) The Constitution of India
- What does the term "Day" mean in this
context?
- a) Any 12-hour period
- b) A working day from 9 AM to 5 PM
- c) A calendar day beginning and ending at midnight
- d) A shift of work hours
Answer: c) A calendar day beginning and ending at midnight
- What is the meaning of "Duty" in this
document?
- a) Any work performed by a railway servant
- b) Service as a Probationer or apprentice, provided
that such service is followed by confirmation
- c) Any task assigned to a railway servant
- d) Only the duties listed in the official job
description
Answer: b) Service as a Probationer or apprentice, provided that
such service is followed by confirmation
- Who is included in the definition of
"Family"?
- a) The railway servant's immediate family, friends,
and neighbors
- b) The railway servant's wife/husband, legitimate
children, stepchildren, parents, sisters, and minor brothers residing
with and wholly dependent upon him/her
- c) Only the railway servant's spouse and children
- d) Any relative of the railway servant
Answer: b) The railway servant's wife/husband, legitimate children,
stepchildren, parents, sisters, and minor brothers residing with and wholly
dependent upon him/her
- What is "Foreign Service"?
- a) A service in which a railway servant is posted abroad
- b) A service where a railway servant receives pay from
a source other than the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated
Fund of a State or a Union Territory
- c) A service where a railway servant is engaged in
foreign trade activities
- d) A service involving cross-border railway operations
Answer: b) A service where a railway servant receives pay from a
source other than the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of a
State or a Union Territory
- What does "Gazetted Post" refer to?
- a) A post for which appointments are made by private
companies
- b) A post to which appointment is made by notification
in the Gazette of India
- c) A temporary position within the railway service
- d) A post that is filled by internal promotion only
Answer: b) A post to which appointment is made by notification in
the Gazette of India
- How is a "Holiday" defined?
- a) A day where employees can choose not to work
- b) A day prescribed or notified under the Negotiable
Instruments Act, 1881, and a day when a particular office is ordered to
be closed by a competent authority
- c) Any day where the office is open but employees are
not required to work
- d) A day observed only in special circumstances like
festivals
Answer: b) A day prescribed or notified under the Negotiable
Instruments Act, 1881, and a day when a particular office is ordered to be
closed by a competent authority
- What is the "Joining time"?
- a) The time taken by a railway servant to complete his
work
- b) The time allowed to a railway servant to join a new
post or travel to/from a station to which he is posted
- c) The time allocated for attending meetings
- d) The time during which a railway servant is not
required to work
Answer: b) The time allowed to a railway servant to join a new post
or travel to/from a station to which he is posted
16. What does the term
"Permanent Post" refer to?
- a) A post with a limited rate of pay sanctioned for a
limited time.
- b) A post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned
without limit of time.
- c) A post held temporarily by a railway servant.
- d) A post that can only be held for a specific
duration.
Answer: b) A post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned
without limit of time.
17. What is "Overseas
Pay"?
- a) Pay granted to a railway servant working within his
home country.
- b) Pay granted to a railway servant in consideration of
serving in a country other than his domicile.
- c) An additional pay granted for extra duties performed
by the railway servant.
- d) Pay granted for serving in a remote area within the
same country.
Answer: b) Pay granted to a railway servant in consideration of
serving in a country other than his domicile.
18. Which of the following is
classified as "Special Pay"?
- a) Pay granted for ordinary duties.
- b) Pay granted for the specially arduous nature of
duties.
- c) Pay received by all railway servants.
- d) Pay granted only during leaves.
Answer: b) Pay granted for the specially arduous nature of duties.
19. What does "Subsistence
grant" refer to?
- a) Monthly grant made to a railway servant who is not
in receipt of pay or leave-salary.
- b) A bonus paid annually to all railway servants.
- c) A monthly grant for travel expenses.
- d) An additional allowance for working overtime.
Answer: a) Monthly grant made to a railway servant who is not in
receipt of pay or leave-salary.
20. What does "Time-scale
pay" mean?
- a) Pay that is fixed and does not change over time.
- b) Pay that rises by periodical increments from a
minimum to a maximum.
- c) Pay that decreases over time due to inflation.
- d) Pay that is paid only during a specific time period.
Answer: b) Pay that rises by periodical increments from a minimum
to a maximum.
21. What is defined as "Tenure
post"?
- a) A post that can be held by any railway servant
indefinitely.
- b) A permanent post which an individual railway servant
may not hold for more than a limited period.
- c) A post with no specified duration.
- d) A temporary post that is held for a short time.
Answer: b) A permanent post which an individual railway servant may
not hold for more than a limited period.
22. What does "Traveling
allowance" cover?
- a) An allowance granted to cover the expenses incurred
in traveling in the interests of the public service.
- b) An allowance granted only for traveling on official
holidays.
- c) An allowance provided for the maintenance of home
appliances.
- d) An allowance granted to cover the costs of private
vacations.
Answer: a) An allowance granted to cover the expenses incurred in
traveling in the interests of the public service.
23. What is "Personal
Pay"?
- a) Pay granted for a permanent post without any special
consideration.
- b) Additional pay granted to save a railway servant
from loss of substantive pay or in exceptional circumstances.
- c) Pay received only during retirement.
- d) Pay granted for working on public holidays.
Answer: b) Additional pay granted to save a railway servant from
loss of substantive pay or in exceptional circumstances.
24. Which of the following best
describes a "Gazetted" railway service post?
- a) Railway Services Group A and Group B.
- b) Railway Services Group C and Workshop Staff (Group
C).
- c) Only the Chairman's post.
- d) Temporary posts within the railway services.
Answer: a) Railway Services Group A and Group B.
25. What does
"Probationer" refer to in railway service?
- a) A railway servant who has completed service.
- b) A railway servant employed on probation in or
against a substantive vacancy in the cadre of a department.
- c) A railway servant employed for a temporary period.
- d) A railway servant working on contractual terms.
Answer: b) A railway servant employed on probation in or against a
substantive vacancy in the cadre of a department.
26. According to the in situ promotion/MACP Schemes, a person
placed in a higher Level of the Pay Matrix will retain the classification of
which of the following?
A) The new higher-level post
B) A temporary post
C) The Basic Post
D) The Group 'B' classification
Answer: C) The Basic Post
27. The classification of non-functional posts, Sr., and
Selection Grade posts of Teaching/School staff will remain the same as which of
the following?
A) As per the discretion of the
Railway Board
B) As the applicable post of the Basic Grade
C) As the nearest equivalent grade
D) As decided by the General Manager
Answer: B) As the applicable post of the Basic Grade
28. Assistant Section Officers of Railway Board Secretariat
Services (RBSS) will continue to be classified under which category?
A) Group 'A'
B) Group 'B' (Gazetted)
C) Group 'B' (Non-Gazetted)
D) Group 'C'
Answer: C) Group 'B' (Non-Gazetted)
29. The classification for posts created after the effective
date of these orders, as additions to existing cadres, will follow which
guideline?
A) They will have the same
classification as the original post
B) They will be newly classified as Group 'A'
C) They will be automatically classified as Group 'B'
D) They will be classified according to the Pay Matrix
Answer: A) They will have the same classification as the original
post
30. What does the term "Pay Matrix" refer to as used
in these orders?
A) The matrix specified by the
General Manager
B) The Pay Scale decided by the President
C) The matrix specified in Part A of the Schedule to Railway Services (Revised
Pay) Rules, 2016
D) The financial matrix as defined in the Indian Railway Financial Code
Answer: C) The matrix specified in Part A of the Schedule to
Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
31. Which of the following is NOT included in Group 'A'
classification?
A) Indian Railway Service of
Mechanical Engineers
B) Indian Railway Stores services
C) Indian Railway Personnel Services
D) Assistant Section Officers of Railway Board Secretariat Services (RBSS)
Answer: D) Assistant Section Officers of Railway Board Secretariat
Services (RBSS)
32. Group 'B' classification includes which of the following?
A) Temporary Assistant Officers
B) All Gazetted posts not included in Group A
C) All Non-Gazetted posts
D) Workshop Staff
Answer: B) All Gazetted posts not included in Group A
33. What is the tenure limit for a Director, Additional
Director, or Joint Director in the Railway Board?
A) 2 years
B) 3 years
C) 4 years
D) 5 years
Answer: C) 4 years
34. How often must a General Manager report to the Railway
Ministry if a gazetted post is kept unfilled for an extended period?
A) Every 3 months
B) Every 6 months
C) Annually
D) No need to report
Answer: B) Every 6 months
35. What is a "supernumerary post" according to the
Government of India’s orders?
A) A temporary working post
B) A shadow post with no duties attached
C) A permanent working post with additional duties
D) A provisional post that can be filled by any officer
Answer: B) A shadow post with no duties attached
36. Under what condition will a supernumerary post be
abolished?
A) When the financial year ends
B) After 5 years of operation
C) When the officer for whom it was created vacates it
D) When a similar post is created elsewhere
Answer: C) When the officer for whom it was created vacates it
37. Which authority has full powers to make rules of general
application to Group C & D railway servants?
A) The President of India
B) The Railway Board
C) The Ministry of Finance
D) The General Managers of Indian Railways
Answer: B) The Railway Board
38. The introduction of a new Revised Scale for a particular
category in Group C & D requires the prior sanction of which authority?
A) General Manager
B) Ministry of Railways
C) Divisional Railway Manager
D) Local Railway Authority
Answer: B) Ministry of Railways
39. What is the maximum tenure period for a Divisional Railway
Manager?
A) 2 years
B) 3 years
C) 4 years
D) 5 years
Answer: B) 3 years
40. What action must be taken if a permanent working post is
exceeded in a department?
A) The excess must be sanctioned by
the General Manager
B) The post must be converted into a temporary post
C) The excess must be sanctioned by the competent authority
D) The post must be immediately abolished
Answer: C) The excess must be sanctioned by the competent authority
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