IREC Rule No.1512: Special Compensatory Allowances

1512. Special Compensatory Allowances:-

Special compensatory allowances at specified rates are granted to the running staff to meet out-of-pocket expenses incurred at outstations, in the following circumstances, viz.,

(i)     When running room facilities are not provided;

(ii)    When staff are detained at out-stations for more than 15 hours from the time they sign off duty;

(iii)   When trains are held up at any station, other than headquarters of the staff concerned, due to an accident, for a period exceeding 8 hours; and

(iv)    When the running staff are deputed to work temporarily at stations outside their headquarters.

Grant of each of these allowances is governed by a specified set of conditions.