Discontinuance of Festival Advance on the recommendation of 7th CPC

Discontinuance of Festival Advance on the recommendation of 7th CPC  - RAILWAY BOARD on 14-12-2016

RBE No. 147/2016

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. 2016/E {LL}/FA/1

New Delhi,dated: 14·12.201

The General Managers,
All Zonal Railways/Production Units, CORE, Metro Railway,
The Director General, RDSO, Lucknow
The Director General, National Academy of Indian Railway, Vadodara.
The Director; IRICEN/ Pune. IRIEE/Nasik Road, IRIMEE/Jamalpur,
IRISET, Secunderabad,IRITM, Lucknow.
The Chairman, RRBs, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Malda, Secunderabad, Ranchi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Gorakhpur, Bhopal, Chennai.
The Pay, Accounts Officer, Railway Board.

Sub: Discontinuance of Festival Advance on the recommendation of 7th CPC.

Seventh Central Pay Commission has recommended that all interest free advances including Festival Advance being granted to the Central Govemmente employees should be abolished.

2. The above recommendation has been considered and accepted in consultation with Pay Commission and Finance Directorates of Railway Board, Hence, it has been decided not to grant Festival Advance to Railway employees with immediate effect.

3. This issues with the concurrence. of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways. Necessary correction of Indian Railway Establishment Manual Volume-1 shall follow.

Please acknowledge receipt.

sd/-
(D.V. Rao)
Director Estt. (LL)

Source : http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/

Inclusion of Aadhaar number (Unique Identification issued by UIDAI) in Service Book of Government servants

Inclusion of Aadhaar number (Unique Identification issued by UIDAI) in Service Book of Government servants

RBE No.145/2016

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD

No.E(G)2016/FR 1-6

New Delhi, dated 02/12/2016

The General Manager(s),
Zonal Railways &
Production Units, etc.

Sub: Inclusion of Aadhaar number (Unique Identification issued by UIDAI) in Service Book of Government servants.

As Railway administrations are aware, in terms of extant rules/instructions every event in a Government servants' official life must be recorded in his Service Book and each entry is to be attested by the Head of office.

2. An extract of Paras 1234 and 1235 of the 'Indian Railway Administration and Finance Code' which provides that the Heads of offices are to obtain signatures of the Railway servants in token of them having inspected their Service Books annually is reproduced below:-

"1234. Scrutiny by Employees: It shall be the duty of every Head of Office to initiate action to show the Service Books to railway servants governed by pension rules under his administrative control every year and to obtain their signature therein in token of their having inspected the Service Books. A certificate to the effect that he has done so in respect of the preceding financial year should be submitted by him to his next superior officer by the end of every September. The railway servants shall inter-alia ensure before affixing their signature that their services have been duly verified and certified as such. In the case of a railway servant on foreign service, his signature shall be obtained in his Service Book after the Accounts Officer has made therein necessary entries connected with his foreign service.

1235. The scrutiny of his Service Book by the railway servant concerned, must be made in the presence of a responsible official. As a token of his scrutiny and acceptance of entries in the Service Book, the railway servant should sign in the relevant column of the Service Book and the official who supervised the scrutiny will also endorse his signature as evidence that scrutiny was conducted under proper supervision and the supervising officer is satisfied that it was bona fide and no unauthorized changes were made in the entries in the Service Book in the course of such scrutiny."

3. Furthermore, Rule 47 of the Railway Services (Pension) Rules 1993 provides for issuing a communication on completion of 18 years of service and five years before retirement, as part of preparatory work for sanctioning pensionary benefits.

4. Besides aforesaid directives, pursuant to Government of India's instructions, it has also been decided that Aadhaar numbers of all Railway Servants should be included in their Service Book.

5. Therefore, all Zonal Railways/Production Units etc. are directed to ensure that the Service Book of all the employees have an entry of the employee's Aadhaar number. Immediate necessary action in this regard may please be taken and the number of employees whose Service Books have been seeded with their respective Aadhaar number may be intimated to Board's office within a month's time.

6. In this connection, attention of Zonal Railways is invited to Board's letter No. 2015/ED/ERP/UIDAI/01 dated 21/7/2016 wherein Railways/Production Units were directed to arrange for Aadhaar numbers and field units are expected to have taken action already.

7.This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Dte.

8.Please acknowledge receipt.

9.Hindi version will follow.

sd/-
(D. Joseph)
Dy. Director Estt. (Genl.)

Source: http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/

Fixation of pay of re-employed Pensioners – Treatment of Military Service Pay

Fixation of pay of re-employed Pensioners–Treatment of Military Service Pay

RBE No.153/2016

Government of India
Ministry Of Railways
Railway Board

No.E(G)2013/EM 1-5

New Delhi, Dated 15-12-2016

The General Managers
All Zonal Railways and PUs etc.
(as per Standard list)

Subject:Fixation of pay of re-employed Pensioners–Treatment of Military Service Pay

Attention is invited to instructions contained in DOP&T’s OM No.3/19/2009-Estt: Pay -II dated 8/11/2010 on the above subject which was circulated to the Railways for implementaion vide Railway Board’s letter No.E(G)/2013/EM 1/4 dated 24/7/2013.

However,Federation (NFIR) has pointed out that aforesaid instructions are not being complied with by the Zonal Railways/PUs etc.

Therefore, Board desire that the aforesaid instructions should be complied with strictly while fixing the pay of ex-servicemen who are re-employed ont he Zonal Railways/PUs etc.

Please acknowledge receipt.

sd/-
(D.Joseph)
Dy.Dir./Estt.(Genl)

Source : NFIR

Non-payment of Fixed Medical Allowance to the Retired Railway Employees

Non-payment of Fixed Medical Allowance to the Retired Railway Employees - cases of N.W. Railway-reg

NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen
3, CHELMSFORD ROAD,NEW DELHI-110055
Affiliated to :
Indian National Trade Union Congress(INTUC)
Intemattonal Transport Workers Federation(ITF)

No. II/13(A)/Part II

Dated: 15/12/2016

The Secretary (E), 
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub: Non-payment of Fixed Medical Allowance to the Retired Railway Employees - cases of N.W. Railway-reg.

It has been brought to Federation's notice that on North Western Railway, payment of Fixed Medical Allowance is denied to the retired Railway employees by the authorities on N. W. Railway on the plea that they have not opted, inspite of the fact that these staff are members of RELHS and their residence is beyond 2.5 km., from the Railway Health Unit.

In this connection, NFIR places below facts of the case for proper appreciation.-

• A few retired Railway employees of Ajmer Division had erroneously opted for OPD facility at the time of their retirement though their residence is 60 Kms., away from the Railway Health Unit/Hospital.

• As per extant instructions, the Railway employees at the time of retirement is required to submit option with the settlement papers either to.-

(a) Opt for OPD facility to be availed from the nearest Health UnitlHospital or
(b) If the residence of the retiring/retired Railway employee is beyond 2.5 Kms., he/she can opt for payment of Fixed Medical Allowance every month at the prevailing rate.

• Also, there are cases on the Division where neither the OPD facility is being extended to the retired Railway employee nor he/she is being paid Fixed Medical Allowance.

The cases cited above, show that the retired Railway employees have given wrong option in the absence of proper guidance from the Personnel department. While the Federation is aware that the cases of above nature are not covered under Board's instructions contained in letter No. PC-V/98/I/7/1/1 dated 15/07/2002, a special dispensation is needed to be considered and genuine cases of retired Railway employees who have erroneously opted for OPD facility be got reviewed for allowing Fixed Medical Allowance.

NFIR, therefore, requests the Railway Board to consider the situations mentioned above and issue instructions to the Zones etc., for payment of Fixed Medical Allowance as a special case. A copy of the instructions issued may be endorsed to the Federation.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Dr. M. Raghavaiah)
General Secretary.

Source : NFIR