Premature Retirement of Railway Employees: Criteria for Review of Services

Railway Board issued an important order on 8th August, 2019 regarding periodic review of Railway employees under Rule 66(b) of RSPR 1993.

The order said, improving of efficiency and strengthening of administrative machinery at all levels by the Government by exercising of its powers under Rule 1802(a)/1803(a)/1804(a)-R.II, 1987 read with Rule 66(b) of RSPR, 1993 to retire a Railway servant in public interest before the normal date of his retirement subject to fulfillment of conditions laid down in the instructions.

The salient points of the various instructions on the subject have been consolidated with a view to improving clarity and understanding and are enclosed for reference.

An important aspect of Criteria for review of Services as per age and service rendered…

1) Group A and B: After attaining 50 years (if entered service before age 35)

2) Group A and B: After attaining 55 years (if entered service after age 35)

3) Group C: After attaining 55 years of age

4) Group C: After completion of 30 years of service, if not governed by any pension rules, under Rule 1804(a).

5) Group D: In pensionable cases, can be done after completion of 30 years of pensionable service.

6) Any employee, irrespective of age, can be retired prematurely by giving him three month’s notice after he has completed 30 years of qualifying service.

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Issue of 2 sets of Post Retirement Complimentary Passes (PRCP) to Group ‘D’ employees retired on or after 01.01.2006 – RBE 135/2018

RBE No.135/2018
ADVANCE CORRECTION SLIP No.79

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.E(W)2016/PS5-2/9

New Delhi, dated:- 24.09.2018

The General Managers (P)
All Zonal Railways &
Production Units

Sub: Issue of 2 sets of Post Retirement Complimentary Passes (PRCP) to Group ‘D’ employees retired on or after 01.01.2006.

The demand for issuance of 2 sets of PRCPs to the staff retired as Group ‘D’ before their reclassification as Group ‘C’ was raised by staff side in the DC/JCM Meeting (Item No.18/2012) and also by AIRF in PNM Meeting (Item No.38/2016) with Board.

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2. The issue has been examined in detail and in order to bring uniformity in cases of all those employees who retired on or after 01.01 .2006 i.e. whether classified as Group ‘C’ or retired as Group ‘D’, it has been decided with the approval of the Competent Authority to amend the relevant provisions of extant Pass Rules. Accordingly, PRCP entitlement stipulated under Columns 1 and 2 of Schedule-IV (Post Retirement Complimentary Passes) of the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 (Second Edition -1993) is amended as follows:-

3. Accordingly, PRCPs/Widow Passes, as per revised entitlement, shall be admissible to the employees retired/deceased on or after 01 .01.2006. However, higher number of PRCPs/Widow Passes, as per revised entitlement, will be issued from the current calendar year only. The number of sets of PRCP/Widow Passes in case of employees retired/deceased before 01.01.2006 shall continue to be the same as prevalent at that time.

4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of Ministry of Railways.

sd/-
(V. Muralidharan)
Dy. Director Estt.(Welfare)-1
Railway Board
New Delhi, dated:- 24.09.2018

Source: AIRF

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Review of Work Performance

The below statement said in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on 1st August, 2018 regarding steps taken to identify dull officers and action taken against such officers…

Review of performance of Government servants is an ongoing process under Fundamental Rule 56(j) and Rule 48 of Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, which provide that the performance of a Government servant on attaining a specified age or qualifying years of service is to be reviewed and he/she can be retired in public interest.The instructions on the procedure to be adopted and various aspects to be kept in view while conducting periodical review under provisions of the said rules have been issued from time to time.

As per available information provided by cadre controlling authorities, performance of a total of 25,082 Group ‘A’ and 54,873 Group ‘B’ officers has been reviewed up to May 2018; and provisions of Fundamental Rule 56 (j)/ relevant rules were invoked/ recommended against 93 Group ‘A’ and 132 Group ‘B’ officers out of these.

Confidential Rolls (CRs) / Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs) of IAS officers are written for each financial year or as may be specified by the Government in the form and as per the schedule prescribed in the All India Services (Performance Appraisal Report) Rules, 2007.The appraisal form of IAS officers, inter alia, provides for comments on the overall quality of officers including areas of strength and his attitude towards weaker sections.

Authority: http://loksabha.nic.in/

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Grant of Disability Element to Armed Forces Personnel who were retained in service despite disability attributable to or aggravated by Military Service and subsequently proceeded on premature/ voluntary retirement prior to 01.01.2006

No.16(05)/2008/D(Pension/Policy)
Government of India
Ministry of Defence
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

New Delhi-110011 Dated 19th May 2017

To,
The Chief of the Army Staff
The Chief of the Naval Staff
The Chief of the Air Staff

Subject: Grant of Disability Element to Armed Forces Personnel who were retained in service despite disability attributable to or aggravated by Military Service and subsequently proceeded on premature/ voluntary retirement prior to 01.01.2006.

Sir,
The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s letter No. 16(5)/2008/ D(Pen/Policy) dated 29th September 2009 wherein disability element/ war injury element have been allowed to such Armed Forces Personnel who were retained in service despite disability and retired/ discharged voluntary or otherwise in addition to retiring/ service pension or retiring/ service gratuity, subject to condition that their disability was accepted as attributable to or aggravated by military service and had foregone lump sum compensation in lieu of that disability.

2. In terms of Para- 3 of the above referred letter the provisions stated above are applicable to the Armed Forces Personnel who were retired/ discharged from service on or after 01.01.2006. Armed Force Tribunal (Principal Branch) New Delhi in CA No. 336 of 2011 vide their order dated 07.02.2012 have struck down Para-3 of this Ministry’s above letter.

3. The issue of extension of above benefit to the Pre-2006 retired/ discharged Armed Forces Personnel, who were retained in service despite disability attributable to or aggravated by military service, was under active consideration of Government. Now, the President is pleased to decide that all Pre- 2006 Armed Forces Personnel who were retained in service despite disability and retired voluntarily or otherwise will be allowed disability element/war injury element in addition to retiring/ service pension or retiring/ service gratuity, subject to the condition that their disability was accepted as attributable to or aggravated by military service and had foregone lump sum compensation in lieu of that disability. Further, concerned Armed Forces Personnel should still be suffering from the same disability which should be assessed at 20% or more on the date of effect of this letter.

4. Implementation of these orders is expected to be arduous and challenging. Documents like Medical Board proceedings, retention of the personnel in service despite disability, option of individual foregoing lump sum compensation and non-payment of lump sum compensation would be required in all cases which may not be available at the end of Pay Accounting Authorities/ Record offices and Pension sanctioning authorities readily. In such cases, pensioners/ family pensioners may be asked to produce the copies of relevant documents to the Executive authorities in support of their claims.

5. The claim for grant of disability element/ war injury element in affected cases will be submitted to the PSA concerned by PCDA(O) Pune/ NPO/ AFCAO/ Record office along-with copy of medical board/ fresh medical board proceedings showing extent of disability applicable as on date of effect of this letter in respect of Commissioned officers/ JCOs/ ORs. It will be responsibility of PCDA(O) Pune/ NPO/ AFCAO and Record office to confirm payment/ non-payment of lump sum-compensation in lieu of disability element to Commissioned officers and JCOs/ ORs. A sanction showing extent of disability and its attributability/ aggravation due to Military service in terms of MOD letter No. 4684/DIR(PEN)/ 2001 dated 14.08.2001 would be issued by the Service HQrs in case of Commissioned Officers and sanction would be issued by ON C Record office in case of JCOs/ ORs.

6. The corrigendum PPOs granting disability element/ war injury element in all affected cases will be issued by respective Pension Sanctioning Authorities.

7. The provisions of this letter shall take effect from 01.01.2006.

8. Pension Regulation of all the three services will be amended in due course.

9. This Issues with the concurrence of Finance Division of this Ministry their letter I.D. No 10(3)2012/FlN/PEN dated 19th May 2017.

10. Hindi version will follow.

Yours faithfully
sd/-
(Manoj Sinha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

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Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) issued OM No. W-02/0017/2014-DPE(WC) dated 01.02.2017 clarifying the term “technical formality clause” as mentioned in point xvi) of OM No. W-02/0017/2014-DPE (WC) dated 21.05.2014. This has no effect on the provisions of the OM dated 21.05.2014.

In term of para vii) read with para x) of Department of Public Enterprises (DPE)’s OM dated 21.05.2014, any employee resigning from service of CPSEs and joining another CPSE having broadly similar schemes of pension and post superannuation medical benefit the entire amount of employer’s and employee’s contribution along with interest accrued thereon would be transferred to such CPSE. The services rendered in CPSEs prior to resigning would also be counted for the schemes. Thus, these provisions are available even prior to issue of the OM dated 01.02.2017 on ‘Technical formality’.

This information was given by Minister of State in the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Shri Babul Supriyo in reply to a written question in the Rajya Sabha today.

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