Request for reckoning the Additional Allowance
granted to
Loco Pilot (Mail), Loco Pilot (Passenger) & Mail
Guard for the
purpose of computation of retirement benefits to Running
Staff
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No.E(P&A)II-2011/F.E.2/2
New Delhi,dated: 11-12-2017
The General Secretary
NFIR,
3,Chelmsford
Road
New Delhi - 110055.
Dear Sir,
Sub:
Request for reckoning the Additional Allowance granted
to Loco Pilot
(Mail), Loco Pilot (Passenger) & Mail Guard for the
purpose of
computation of retirement benefits to Running
Staff.
Ref: NFIR's letter No.IV/RSAC/Conf./Part.VIII dated 13-
10-2017.
I
am directed to refer to NFIR's letter dated 13-10-2017
wherein it was
requested to send supplementary proposal to the Ministry
of Finance duly
including the above vital points, seeking clearance and
a copy of the
reference made to the MoF may also be furnished to the
Federation for
pursuing the issue further.
As suggested by GS/NFIR, an office
Memorandum dated 30-10-2017 has been sent to Ministry of
Finance. The
copy of the same is sent herewith for your
information.
Yours faithfully,
s/d,
For Secretary/Railway Board
Government of India
Ministry of
Railways
(Railway Board)
No. E(P&A)II-2011/F.E.2/2
New Delhi, dated 10.10.2017
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub:
Request for reckoning the Additional Allowance granted
to Loco Pilot
(Mail). Loco Pilot (Passenger) & Mail Guard for the
purpose of
computation of retirement benefits to Running
Staff
The
undersigned is directed to invite attention of the
Ministry of Finance
to this Ministry's O.M. of even number dated 14-09-2016
(copy enclosed)
followed by reminders dated 22-11-2016 , 1602-2017 &
17-05-2017 on
the above subject. In the meanwhile General Secretary of
the National
Federation of Indian Railwaymen has requested that-
"since DA as accrued
froM time to time is payable on the Special Running
Staff Allowance due
to the hardworking conditions and other relevant
factors, the Special
Running Staff Allowance needed to be included in the pay
to be reckoned
for calculation of retiral benefits.
It is requested that the issue raised by the Federation
may kindly be considered on priority and decision
communicated.
Encl : As above. di-/A
(Dhruv Singh)
Executive Director
Pay
Commission - I
Railway Board.
Director (Admn.),
Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Finance
North Block,
New
Delhi
No. IV/RSAC/Conf/Part
VIII
Dated: 13/10/2017
The Secretary (E),
Railway Board,
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Sub: Reckoning of Additional Allowance as pay
for all purposes including computation of Retirement
Benefits - Running Staff-reg.
Ref: (i)
NFIR PNM Item No. 08/2011.
(ii) NFIR' s letter No. IV/RSAC/Conf/Part VI dated
20/01/2016.
(iii)
Director, Pay Commission, Railway Board's O.M. No.
E(P&A)II2011/FE/2/2 dated 14/09/2016 addressed to
Director,
Administration/ Department of Expenditure (MoF).
Responding to the
O.M. dated 14/09/2016 sent by the Railway Board to the
Ministry of
Finance, Federation takes note that the proposal sent by
the Railway
Board is incomplete as full facts have not been
apprised. As a matter of
fact, the said O.M. does not contain following vital
points:
"Since DA as accrued from time to time is
payable on the Special Running Staff
Allowance due to the hardworking
conditions and other relevant factors, the Special
Running Staff Allowance needed to be
included in the pay to be reckoned for
calculation of retiral
benefits".
NFIR,
therefore, requests the Railway Board to send
supplementary proposal to
the Ministry of Finance duly including the above vital
points, seeking
clearance. A copy of the reference made to the MoF may
also be furnished
to the Federation for pursuing the issue further.
Yours faithfully,
S/d,
(Dr.M.Raghavaiah)
General
Secretary
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAY
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No. E(P&A)II-2011/F.E./2/2
New Delhi, dated 14/09/2016
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Sub.:
Request for reckoning of Additional Allowance granted
to Loco Pilot
(Mail), Loco Pilot(Passenger) & Mail-Guard for the
purpose of
computation of Retirement benefits to Running
Staff.
Ref: Department of Expenditure's OM No. 70/EV/2011 dt.
23.08.2011.
The
undersigned is directed to state that based on the
recommendations of
6th CPC, the Additional Allowance to Loco Pilot (Mail),
Loco Pilot
(Passenger) and Mail Guard was introduced on the
Railways. The rates of
Additional Allowance for Loco- Pilot-(Mail), were-Rs.
1000/- p.m whereas
for Loco Pilot (Passenger) and Mail Guard were Rs,
500/- p.m.
2. The 7th CPC in para 11.40.62 of their report
had recommended as follows :
"It
is recommended that the Special Running Staff Allowance
should be
raised to Rs. 2,250 pm for Loco Pilot Mail/Express, Rs.
1,125 pm to Loco
Pilot Passenger/Motormen and Rs. 1,125 for Guard
Mail/Express. In
addition„ Loco Pilot Goods and Sr. Passenger Guard
should be extended
this allowance at the rate of Rs. 750 pm. This will
incentivize the
movement of LP Shunter-I to. LP Goods. As before,
Dearness Allowance
will be payable. on this allowance. However, it will not
count for
pensionary benefits."
3. The Staff side on the Railways has been
insisting on reckoning of Additional Allowance (termed
as Special
Running Staff Allowance in the report of 7th CPC) for
the purpose of
computation of retirement benefits since its
introduction by the 6th
CPC. The 6th CPC had recommended that Dearness Allowance
shall be
payable on this Allowance, yet specific recommendations
regarding the
additive value of the additional allowance for
computation of retirement
benefits of running staff had not been made by the
Commission.
Earlier
also, the matter for reckoning of Additional Allowance
for retinal
benefits, was referred to the Ministry of Finance vide
0,M. No
E(P&A)-11-2008 dated 19/10/2010 (Copy enclosed).
However, .Ministry
of Finance, Department of Expenditure had advised vide
O.M. No
99/EV/2011 dated 11704/2011 for not reckoning Additional
Allowance for
the purpose of computation of retirement benefits of the
categories of
running staff eligible for the allowance, On the
insistence of the staff
side the matter whether Additional Allowance can be,
reckoned for the
purpose of computation of retirement benefits of
eligible Running Staff
again being referred for consideration, it is requested
that the matter
may once again be, examined and the outcome may please
be advised to
this office.
S/d,
(S. Balachandra)
Director Pay
Commission,
Railway Board,
Director
(Admn),
Department of Expenditure,
Ministry of Finance,
North-Block,
New Delhi.
Source : NFIR
