IREC Rule No.1426: Allowance To Doctors
1426. Allowance To Doctors:-
(1) Annual Allowance To Doctors: Railway doctors having Post Graduate Qualification recognized by Medical Council of India will be granted Annual Allowance @ Rs.500 (Rupees five hundred only) per month. The General Duty Doctors without recognized Post Graduate Qualification will be granted Annual Allowance @ Rs.300 (Rupees three hundred only) per month w.e.f. 01.07.1998 subject to the following terms and conditions:–
(a) This will be granted to all railway doctors including Dental Surgeons and Ad-hoc AMOs in Group ‘B’.
(b) At the end of the financial year, the Medical Officers will be required to furnish a certificate to the effect that the amount of Annual Allowance has been utilized for the purpose for which it was drawn. In the case of retirement / resignation before the end of the financial year, such a certificate will be furnished at the time of retirement/resignation.
(c) The above allowance will not have the characteristics of pay and will not be reckonable for any purpose whatsoever.
(d) All doctors in Medical Departments with Post Graduate Qualifications are eligible for grant of Annual Allowance irrespective of the fact whether they are working as Specialists or as General Duty Doctors.
(e) Post Graduate Diploma Holders in the Medical department of Indian Railways are also eligible for the grant of this Allowance.
(2) Post Graduate Allowance To Doctors (Medical Officers) For Possessing Post Graduate Degree / Diploma Qualifications:
The Post Graduate Allowance will be paid @ Rs.500 p.m. and Rs.300 p.m. for possessing PG Degree and PG Diploma recognized under Indian Medical Act, 1956 respectively to the Medical Officers upto the level of Non-Functional Selection Grade w.e.f. 01.08.1997 subject to the following terms and conditions;
(a) The Post graduate allowance to doctors shall be treated as pay for the purpose of Rule 2003(21)(a)(iii) [FR-9(21)(a)(iii)] R-II.
(b) The Post Graduate Allowance to doctors shall be admissible to the fresh recruits if they possess the prescribed post graduate diploma / degree at the time of their appointment or they subsequently acquire the post graduate qualification. In the latter case, the post graduate allowance shall be admissible from the date of publication of the result of the Post Graduate qualification; provided that in case of Post Graduate qualification requiring the internship or submission of a thesis before the award of the post graduate diploma or degree, the post graduate allowance shall be admissible only from the date of award of post graduate degree or diploma.
(c) This, however, will not be admissible where possession of the post graduate qualification has been prescribed for recruitment to the post.
[Authority: RBE No.13/1999, No.E(P&A)I-98/AL/2, 29.01.1999, ACS No.37]