Decision Relating To Grant Of Additional Allowance To Running Staff - 7th CPC

7th CPC Additional Allowance to Running Staff: Railway Board Order RBE 85/2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)

Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)

(Railway Board)

PC-VII No. 32

RBE No.: 85/2017

File No. PC-VII/2017/I/7/5/5

New Delhi, dated: 10/08/2017

The General Manager/CAOs(R),

All Indian Railways & Production Units,

(As per mailing list)

Sub: Recommendation of 7th Central Pay Commission - Decision relating to grant of Additional Allowance to Running Staff.

Please refer to item 3 of Annexure 'B' of Ministry of Railways' letter No. PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/1 dated 11.09.2008 (S. No. PC-VI/2 & RBE No. 108/2008) circulating schedules of revised pay structure for running staff effective from 01.01.2006 and letter No. PC-VI/2010/I/RSRP/4 dated 02.11.2010 (Sl. No. PC-VI/234& RBE No. 159/2010) regarding clarification on Additional Allowance. Consequent upon the acceptance of recommendation of 7th Central Pay Commission on Allowances by the Government with certain modifications, the President is pleased to revise the rates of Additional Allowance granted to certain categories of Running Staff viz. Loco Pilot Mail/Express, Loco Pilot Passenger/Motorman, Guard Mail/Express and grant of Additional Allowance to some other categories of Running Staff viz. Loco Pilot Goods and Sr. Passenger Guard at the following rates:-

• (i) Rs. 2,250/- per month to Loco Pilot Mail/Express.
• (ii) Rs. 1,125/- per month to Loco Pilot Passenger/Motorman.
• (iii) Rs. 1,125/- per month to Guard Mail/Express.
• (iv) Rs. 750/- per month to Loco Pilot Goods.
• (v) Rs. 750/- per month to Sr. Passenger Guard.

2. Dearness Allowance will be payable on this allowance. However, it will not count for pensionary benefits.

3. These orders shall take effect from 1st July, 2017.

4. Hindi version is attached herewith.

(Jaya Kumar G)

Deputy Director, Pay Commission-VII

Railway Board

Source: NFIR

Contractual Appointments In Government Departments

Contractual appointments in Government departments

The Government posts are to be filled in accordance with the recruitment rules. Wherever recruitment rules provide reemployment as a mode of recruitment or in cases of exigencies of work, retired Government servants are reappointed on contractual basis for a specific period.

The Central Civil Services (Fixation of Pay of re-employed Pensioners) orders, 1986 as amended from time to time govern the pay fixation of re-employed pensioners including the persons re-employed on contract basis, unless the contract provides otherwise. The interests of serving employees with regard to promotions/financial upgradations to higher post are taken care of by the respective service rules/regulations applicable to them.

This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri M.P.Veerendra Kumar in the Rajya Sabha today.

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RECRUITMENT OF JCOs/ORs IN INDIAN ARMY IN VARIOUS

Recruitment in Army

Recruitment in Army is undertaken on basis of vacancies arising on account of retirement, release or due to accretions in force level from time to time.

State / UT wise details of youth recruited into the Indian Army as Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and Other Ranks (OR) in the last five years is as under:-

RECRUITMENT OF JCOs/ORs IN INDIAN ARMY IN VARIOUS

STATES/UTs DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS

S.No.	Name of the State/UT	Recruiting Year
		2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
1	Andhra Pradesh	2890	3540	2088	2145	2277
2	Arunachal Pradesh	190	490	267	101	254
3	Assam	1019	1051	867	1082	1227
4	Bihar	4540	3195	3708	3595	3865
5	Chhattisgarh	622	448	394	860	852
6	Delhi	865	1212	1105	1043	806
7	Goa	47	20	2	25	50
8	Gujarat, Dadra NagarHaveli (UT), Daman & Diu (UT)	2205	2305	1406	1855	1214
9	Haryana	2452	2770	2536	3533	4340
10	Himachal Pradesh	1687	2317	2448	3207	3072
11	Jammu & Kashmir	2085	2699	2057	2844	2504
12	Jharkhand	1140	707	1480	1042	879
13	Karnataka and Lakshadweep (UT)	1671	2033	1091	1613	1697
14	Kerala	2077	2700	2067	2571	2425
15	Madhya Pradesh	2761	3150	2644	2840	3413
16	Maharashtra	5312	5424	3797	5207	6106
17	Manipur	587	456	687	268	359
18	Meghalaya	91	75	117	145	141
19	Mizoram	94	293	405	102	123
20	Nagaland	134	127	165	137	128
21	Odisha	945	1505	1073	1085	1533
22	Punjab and Chandigarh (UT)	3752	4701	5684	5988	5048
23	Rajasthan	3602	3647	3034	4967	5384
24	Sikkim	108	462	182	72	155
25	Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, A&N Islands (UT)	2377	3081	2200	2567	2622
26	Telangana	0	0	0	820	153
27	Tripura	104	56	133	110	1226
28	Uttar Pradesh	7600	7086	8587	8410	10128
29	Uttarakhand	2585	3036	2022	2704	4390
30	West Bengal	3535	3289	3113	3630	4397
Total		57077	61875	55359	64568	70768

For the recruiting year 2016-17, a total of 53786 vacancies have been allotted.

The Armed Forces have undertaken sustained image projection and publicity campaign to create awareness among the youth on the advantages of taking up a challenging and satisfying career.  Awareness campaigns, participation in career fairs and exhibitions, advertisements in print and electronic media, motivational lectures in schools, colleges are also some of the other measures taken in this direction.

This information was given by Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply to Shrimati Savitri Thakur and Shri Deepender Singh Hooda  in Lok Sabha today.

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Vacancies In OBC Category

Vacancies in OBC category

A statement showing the status of details of backlog OBC vacancies, vacancies filled up and yet to be filled in 10 major Departments/Ministries is as follows:

Ministry/Department	Other Backward Classes
	Vacancies	Filled up	Yet to be filled
Posts	718	234	484
Defence Production	164	149	15
Financial Services	14455	13030	1425
Atomic Energy	1444	802	642
Defence	2707	1439	1268
Railways	2204	2194	10
Revenue	5064	2076	2988
Urban Development	692	95	597
Human Resources Development	1557	571	986
Home Affairs	11557	6437	5120
Total	40562	27027	13535

Based on the recommendations of a Committee headed by the then Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Personnel and Training issued instructions in November/December, 2014 to all Ministries/Departments to constitute in-house Committee to identify backlog reserved vacancies, study of the root cause of backlog reserved vacancies, initiation of measures to remove such factors and to fill up such vacancies through Special Recruitment Drive.

As per information updated as on 31.12.2016, 10 Ministries/Departments having majority of the employees in Central Government including their Public Sector Banks/Financial Institutions, Central Public Sector Undertakings etc., reported 40,562 backlog vacancies for Other Backward Classes.  Out of these, 27,027 vacancies have been filled up during the period 01.04.2012 to 31.12.2016 and 13,535 vacancies of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) remained unfilled.

Seven meetings have already been held with these 10 Ministries/Departments who have been requested to take expeditious action for filling up the remaining backlog vacancies.

This was stated by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri N.Gokulakrishnan  in the Rajya Sabha today.

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