Grant of Individual or Group Cash Award to Railway Employees Government of India Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) Office Order No. 17 of 2019 Sub:   Grant of Individual/Group Cash Award The issue of revising guidelines for grant of individual awards and group cash award to officers/staff working in Board’s Office in terms of Office Order No. 44 of 2000, 31 of 2004, 61 of 2005 and 83 of 2018 was under consideration and following has been decided:- a) The upper limit for individual award/individual limit in group award to Officers/staff recommended/sanctioned by AMs, PEDs and Secretary/RB has been revised as under:- Upto Rs 4000/- for Group ‘C’ staff; Upto Rs 5000/- for Group ‘B’ staff and Upto Rs 6000/- for Group ‘A’ staff. Further modalities on restricting the staff percentage for grant of awards to 10% and ceiling the Annual Gross Limit of sanctioning award by AMs, PEDs and Secretary/RB is under process and would be issued in due course. b) The above limit ...

Acquiring of requisite qualifications by Trainees in -IS Pay Band and others – Railways Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya) (Railway Board) No. E(NG)II/2017/RC-1/23 New Delhi, dated 05.11.2018 The General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation New Delhi Sub:   Acquiring of requisite qualifications by Trainees in -IS Pay Band and others Ref: Railway Board’s letter of even No. dated 19.7.2018 Federations had been requested vide above reference albeit on a slightly different matter to impress upon the candidates who did not have the requisite minimum educational qualification for appointment in the Railways but were appointed in -IS Pay Band to acquire the requisite qualification in a reasonable period. Reports received shows that while many candidates have been able to acquire such qualifications, there remain some such ‘Trainees’ who are yet to acquire these qualifications. Federations may appreciate that acquiring of minimum...

Strengthening of IT Cadre of Indian Railway RBA 116/2018 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAY (RAILWAY BOARD) No 2017/AC-II/37/9, Rail Bhavan, New Delhi-110001  31/10/18 Principal Financial Adviser, (All Zonal Railways &Production Units) Sub:-   Strengthening of IT Cadre of Indian Railway. Please connect Board’s letter no. 2016/AC-II(CC)/37/9 dated 18/4/17 & 29/12/17 wherein instructions regarding restructuring of Group C categories of Senior Engineer(IT) and Junior Engineer (IT) in the percentage of 67:33 respectively have been circulated to Railways & Production Units. As stipulated in the letter ibid the restructuring is to be implemented with reference to the cadre strength in operation as on 1/4/2017 and the posts of Senior Engineer (IT) and Junior Engineer (IT) not in Operation as on 1/4/17 are to be treated as deemed to have been surrendered. The matter has been examined further and it is requested to maintain expenditure neutrality while dea...

Provisions in respect of the Contract Workers on Indian Railway GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) No. E(LL)/2015/PNM/AIRF/1 New Delhi, Dated 17.11.2017 The General Manager (P), All Indian Railways & PUs. Sub: Provisions in respect of the Contract Workers on IR. Ref: Board's letter of even number dated 20.10.2015 Payment of minimum wages to workers employed on Railways under the various provisions of the Contract Labour (R&A) Act, 1970 has become a pivotal issue in the present economic scenario. A meeting in this regard was held by Chief Labour Commissioner (Centre) on 15.11.2017 wherein the following issues, inter alia, were discussed: (i) Whether new rates of minimum wages w.e.f. 01.04.2017 are being paid to the contract workers; (ii) Mode of payment to contract workers through bank/cheque/cash; (iii) Whether provident fund is deducted from the payment made to the contract workers and the same is credited to that PF account; (iv) Whether medical faci...