IREM Rule No.926 : Running Staff Traveling as Passengers On Duty
926. Allowance to Running Staff Traveling as Passengers On Duty:-
(i) Running staff traveling as passengers on duty before or after working trains or when they are called upon to work a train at outstations but have to return without working the train due to its cancellation shall be treated as performing “light duties” and shall be paid at half the kilometrage actually traveled.
(ii) In the case of trains which are provided with double sets of crew, the spare crew traveling in the crew Rest Vans shall be paid half the kilometrage admissible to the crew on duty.