Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Clarification

No.E(NG)II-83/RC 1/77, dated 08.09.1983

Sub: Appointment on compassionate grounds.

1. Attention is invited to this Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)III/78/RCI/1, dated 07.04.1983, consolidates the instructions on the subject of appointment on compassionate grounds.
2. Recently a case has come to notice where on the death of a Railway servant, one of his wards who were already employed in Class IV post of the same Railway was appointed to a Class III post on compassionate grounds. This has given rise to the question whether such appointment would be in keeping with the instructions referred to above.
3. The matter has been considered by the Ministry of Railways in the light of aforesaid instructions. They wish to clarify that it is not the intention that persons already employed on a post in the Railways should be offered appointment on compassionate grounds to another post in a higher grade.

Download Railway Board Circular dated 08.09.1983

Forward reference⇒RBE No.