RBE No.216/1986 Voluntary Retirement – Temporary Employees

No.E(P&A)I-85/FE4-7, dated 07.11.1986

Sub: Grant of pensionary benefits to temporary employees seeking voluntary retirement from service after completion of 20 years’ service – Scheme of voluntary retirement – reg.

In terms of instructions contained in Board’s letter No.E(P&A)I-77/RT/46, dated 09.11.1977, a Railway employee is eligible to seek voluntary retirement from service by giving notice of not less than 3 months in writing to the appointing authority after, he has completed 20 years’ service.

The scheme, inter alia, provides for adding weightage to (i) ‘qualifying service’ for pension optees for proportionate pension and (ii) ‘service’ in the case of temporary employees, for the purpose of Special Contribution to Provident Fund.

Instructions have also been issued vide Board’s letter No.F(E)III-78/PN-1/13, dated 21.02.1981 extending the benefit of superannuation or invalid pension, DCRG and family pension to a temporary Railway servant on his retirement from service on attaining the age of superannuation or on his being declared to be permanently incapacitated for further Railway service by the appropriate medical authority after he has rendered temporary service of not less than 20 years, dispensing with the condition of holding a pensionary post in a substantive capacity.

The question whether pensionary benefits should be extended to temporary employees on seeking voluntary retirement after completion of 20 years, under the scheme of voluntary retirement vide this Ministry’s letter dated 09.11.1977, has been examined.

The President is pleased to decide that a temporary Railway employee who seeks Voluntary retirement under this scheme, on completion of 20 years or more of continuous temporary service, shall become eligible for the grant of proportionate pension, DCRG and family pension in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Manual of Railway Pension Rules.

The various terms and conditions of voluntary retirement, under the scheme of voluntary retirement on completion of 20 years qualifying service/ service, as laid down in this Ministry’s letter of 09.11.1977, as further amended from time to time will mutatis mutandis, be applicable to these cases also.

Accordingly, for computing service for the purpose of the scheme of voluntary retirement, the spells of service which would be treated as non qualifying service under the Railway Pension Rules, shall be ignored. Interruptions in service shall amount to forfeiture of past service unless condoned under Rule 2437 R-II.

Formal amendments to the Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume-II and Manual of Railway Pension Rules, 1950 will be separately issued in due course.

These instructions issue with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Deptt. of Railways and shall apply only to those temporary Govt. servants who were/are in service on or after 30th September, 1986.