Accident Free Service Award as per 7th CPC pay structure to retired railway employee after 01.01.2016.

Accident Free Service Award as per 7th CPC pay structure to retired railway employee after 01.01.2016.

"Accident Free Service Award to retired employees after 01.01.2016 shall be paid in accordance with the 7th CPC salary structure and no arrears shall be admissible for which the award has already been disbursed."

Government of India

Ministry of Railways

(Railway Board)

No.2018/ Safety (DM)/18/2

New Delhi, dtd. 13.01.2020

General Managers
All Zonal Railways and
CMD/ KRCL

Sub: Accident Free service award to the employee retired after 01.01.2016.

Ref: Board’s letter of even no. dated 28.11.2018

Vide Board’s letter referred above, it was clarified that the Accident Free Service Award to the staff retired after 01.01.2016 shall be paid as per the salary structure of 7th CPC and no arrears shall be admissible to whom the award is already disbursed.

Various Railways have brought out that some of the staff that had retired between 01.01.2016 & 28.11.2018 have been paid Accident Free Service Award as per 6th CPC pay structure while some of them have still not been paid the award due to various reasons and would therefore, be eligible for award as per 7th CPC pay structure. This would lead to different treatment meted out to two sets of staff retired during the same period.

In this respect, Board has examined the matter and it has been decided that the Accident Free Service Award will be paid as per 7th CPC pay structure w.e.f. 01.07.2017, the date on which revised rate of allowances as per the 7th CPC came into effect. Therefore, the staff who have retired between 01.07.2017 & 28.11.2018 and have been paid as per 6th CPC pay structure will be eligible for payment of arrears of the Accident Free Service Award as per 7th CPC pay structure.

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

(Anupam Verma)

Dy.Director/ Safety(I)

7th Pay Commission pay structures likely to be revised

7th Pay Commission pay structures likely to be revised

Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha who is heading the high-powered secretaries committee to examine the report of the 7th Pay Commission is likely to revise pay structures of central government employees before handing over it to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in June.

The Finance Ministry sources said: “the proposal will be placed before the cabinet for nod after the Finance Minister’s review.

“We don’t think secretaries committee will be able to hand over proposal to Finance Minister before June, considering time taking process of Implementation Cell in the Finance Ministry which works as the Secretariat of the secretaries committee to review demands submitted by the central government employees unions. However, the new pay structure will be effective from January 1,” sources further said.

The Pay Commission headed by Justice A K Mathur presented its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in November.

The Commission had proposed minimum pay to Rs 18,000 per month but the secretaries committee is likely to propose to make it Rs 20,ooo, they added.

However, central government employees unions demanded minimum pay Rs 26,000. “we think it should not be touched to Rs 26,ooo,” they confirmed.
Once the minimum pay is hiked, salaries of 48 lakh central government employees will rise than the seventh Pay Commission recommendations.

They said everyone’s salary should be ‘automatically’ increased when the minimum pay is increased.
They said it was ‘natural’ for the secretaries committee to recommend to hike maximum basic pay proposed by the pay panel. “It also happened before.”

The government formed the 13 members of Empowered Committee of Secretaries headed by Sinha on January 13 to review the report of the Justice A K Mathur-led Pay Commission.

The secretaries of Home, Defence, department of personnel and training, pension and PW, revenue, expenditure, posts, health, and science and technology. Chairman of Railway Board, Deputy CAG and Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat are also members of Empowered Committee of Secretaries headed by Sinha.

The Seventh Pay Commission led by Justice A K Mathur was set up by the UPA government in February 2014.

After getting the report, the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, the impact of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations would be an increase of 0.65 percentage on expenditure on salaries to GDP compared to 0.77 per cent in 6th Pay Commission.

However, he said, government had requisite fund to implement it.

TST