RBE No. 35/1986 Periodical Transfer

No.E(NG)I-80/TR/28, dated 19.02.1986

Sub: Periodical transfer of Railway Employees – Policy regarding – Review of.

1. As the Railway Administrations are aware, in terms of extant instructions Railway employees holding sensitive posts and who frequently come into contact with public or/and Contractors/ Suppliers are required to be transferred every four years.

Instructions also exist, in terms of which, Ticket Checking Staff detected to be indulging in malpractices are required to be sent on inter-divisional transfer as a matter of policy. Such Ticket Checking Staff may, however, be transferred to an adjoining Division on the same Railway or to a Division on some other Railway adjoining that Railway from which they are transferred, if the employees concerned make a request to that effect.

2. The Board have had occasion to review the matter. They have now decided as under:-

(i) The present policy of periodical transfers of officers/ staff folding sensitive posts and who frequently come in contact with public and/ or contractors/ suppliers should be continued; and

(ii) The Ticket Checking Staff who have been transferred out of the Division on complaints of corruption and who were later exonerated or awarded a penalty of censure, may not be brought back to the parent division, even if they so desire.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.35/1986