House Rent Allowance: RBE No.32/1987 – Classification of Cities in State of Assam

No.E(P&A)II/85/JCM/NC/8/HRA/CCA, dated 25.02.1987

Sub: Grant of Compensatory (City) and House Rent Allowances – Classification/ re-classification of cities/ towns on the basis of 1981 Census figures – Cases of cities of Assam State for classification.

1. The question of classification of cities/ towns in the State of Assam, where no decennial census could be taken in 1981 due to disturbed conditions and therefore, no classification of cities of the state could be done on that basis for payment of House Rent and Compensatory (City) Allowances to Railway employees, has been under consideration of the Government for some time past.

The President is now pleased to decide, in consultation with the Staff side of the National Council (Joint Consultative Machinery) that the following Cities/ towns of Assam State shall be added to the list of ‘C’ class cities in the Annexure-I to this Ministry’s Letter No.E(P&A)II-83/HRA-4, dated 11.03.1983 for the purpose of payment of House Rent Allowance to Railway employees:

(1) Gauhati

(2) Dibrugarh

(3) Silchar

(4) Nowgong

(5) Tinsukia

(6) Tezpur

2.     Grant of House Rent Allowance under these orders shall be subject to the terms and conditions laid down in this Ministry’s Letter No.PC 66/HRA1/21, dated 26.07.1967 as amended/ modified from time to time.

3.     These orders shall take effect from 01.08.1982 in so far as the City of Tezpur is concerned. As regards other cities viz. Gauhati, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Nowgong and Tinsukia, these orders shall take effect from 03.11.1986.

4.     With the issue of these orders, the special orders for House Rent Allowance issued in this Ministry’s Letter No. PCIII/74/HRA/2, dated 11.09.1974 in so far as the cities – Gauhati, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Nowgong and Tinsukia – are concerned shall no longer be in force.

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