IREC Rule No.905(1): Optional Subscribers

905(1).Optional Subscribers:-

(i)    A Railway servant who, after having served in a technical department as an apprentice on an agreement for fixed period, is confirmed in a permanent post may be permitted to subscribe to the fund with retrospective effect for any complete year or years of his apprenticeship;

(ii)    Special Class Apprentices on confirmation in the Transportation (Power) and Mechanical Engineering Department of the Superior Revenue Establishment of the Indian Railway may be permitted to subscribe to the Fund with retrospective effect from the date their engagement as Special Class Apprentices, and

(iii) Re-employed personnel from the date of re-employment.