Special Pay: RBE No.05/1988 – Officers Posted in Railway Board under Senior Staffing Scheme

No.PC-IV/86/SP-1, dated 03.01.1988

Sub: Special Pay admissible to (i) Officers of Organised Group ‘A’ Railway Services posted in the Railway Board (ii) Officers of the non-Railway Organised Group ‘A’ services appointed in the Railway Board Secretariat under the Senior Staffing Scheme.

1. At present the Government is reviewing the question of admissibility of special pay to all Group ‘A’ Officers/ posts.

However, pending decision in this regard, the President is pleased to decide that special pay at the following rates shall be paid to officers of organised Group ‘A’ non-technical, technical and engineering services, when they are posted to the Railway Board.

These orders shall not apply to officers of services the cadres of which consist only posts at the Railway Board as also to officers of services who are not entitled to any special pay while posted in the Railway Board Secretariat.

2. The President is further pleased to decide that the Officers of the non-Railway Organised Group ‘A’ services on their appointment to the posts in Senior Scale, JA Grade/ S.G. in the Railway Board Secretariat under the Senior Staffing Scheme, will be entitled either to get their pay fixed in the scale of pay attached to the post or to draw their grade pay plus special pay on the following terms and conditions:

NOTE:

(i) If the grade pay plus special pay of an officer working in the Secretariat exceeds Rs.5850, it will be limited to Rs.5850 by suitably adjusting the special pay. The Officer shall have the option to revert to his parent cadre when the quantum of special pay is reduced;

(ii)  When the grade pay of the officer exceeds Rs.5850 the officer shall revert to his parent cadre within a period of 6 months from such date;

(iii) In respect of officers who are currently working in the Secretariat in the posts in J.A. Grade/ Selection Grade and whose pay has been fixed with effect from 01.01.1986 at a stage above Rs.5850, they shall revert to their parent cadre latest by 31.01.1988 or the date of completion of their tenure in the Secretariat, whichever is earlier.