RBE No. 256/1987: Periodical transfer

No.E(NG)I-80/TR/28, dated 16.10.1987

Sub: Periodical transfer of Railway Employees.

1. As the Railway Administrations are aware, in terms of extant instructions, reiterated in the Ministry’s letter of even number dtd. 19.02.1986 (RBE No. 35/1986), 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 that Ticket Checking Staff detected to be indulging in malpractices should be sent on inter-divisional transfers 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 the Railway from which they are transferred, if the employees concerned make a request to that effect.

2. It has been brought to the notice of the Board that instructions regarding periodical transfer of staff holding sensitive posts, are not being implemented by the Zonal railways etc. The Board wish to reiterate these instructions and desire that they should be followed scrupulously.

A system must be evolved and enforced whereby periodical transfers are effected without fail.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 256/1987