Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) for the
Railway Employees - Clarification RBE No.113/2017
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD
S. No. PC-Vl/378
RBE No.113/ 2017
No. PC-V/2009/ACP/2(Vol.ll)
New Delhi, dated 30/08/2017
The General Managers
All Indian Railways & PUs
(As per mailing list)
Subject:
Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme
(MACPS) for the Railway Employees - Clarification regarding.
Reference
is invited to the Para 4 of Annexure of the Modified Assured
Career
progression Scheme issued vide Board's letter No. PC-
V/2009/ACP/2, dt.
10.06.2009 (RBE No.101/2009) providing that benefit of pay
fixation
available at the time of regular promotion shall also be
allowed at the
time of financial upgradation under the Scheme. Therefore,
the pay shall
be raised by 3% of the total pay in the Pay ”Band and the
Grade Pay drawn before such upgradation. There shall,
however, be no further
fixation of pay at the time of regular promotion if it is in
the same
grade pay as granted under MACPS. However, at the time of
actual
promotion if it happens to be in a post carrying» higher
grade pay than
what is available under MACPS, no pay fixation would be
available and
only difference of Grade Pay would be made available.
2.
References have been received from some of the Zonal Railways
whether at
the time of regular promotion / grant of Non-functional
Scale, the
employee may be allowed to draw the difference in Grade Pay
after
availing regular" increment in the Pay Band and Grade Pay
w.e.f. date of
promotion or date of next increment consequent to
MACP.
3. The
matter has been considered in consultation with DoPT and it
has been
decided in the Para 4 of the Annexure of the MACP Scheme
would be
modified as under:
"benefit of pay fixation available at the time
of regular promotion shall also be allowed at the, time of
financial
upgradation under the Scheme. Therefore, the pay shall be
raised by 3%
of the total pay in the Pay Band and the Grade Pay drawn
before such
upgradation. There shall, however, be no further fixation of
pay at the
time of regular promotion/ grant of Non-Functional Scale, if
it is in
the same Grade Pay as granted under
MACPS. However, at
the time of
actual promotion/grant of Non- Functional Scale, if it
happens to be in a
post carrying higher Grade Pay than what is available under
MACPS, no
pay fixation would be available and only difference of Grade
Pay would
be made available. At the time of such regular
promotion/grant of
Non-Functional Scale to the higher Grade Pay than What has
been given
under MACPS, the employee shall have the option to draw the
difference
of Grade Pays from the date of such regular promotion/grant
of Non-
Functional scale or the date of accrual of next increment in
the pay
allowed under MACP.
4. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance
Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
5. Hindi version is enclosed.
{Authority DoPT's OM No. 35034/3/2008-Estt. (D) (Vol. II),
dt. 04 th July, 2017}
(N.P.Singh)
Dy. Director, Pay Commission-V
Railway Board
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