RBE No. 31/2017: Passes – Higher Class Passes – Escort Facility – To Physically Challenged
No.E(W)2016/PS5-1/5, dated 06.04.2017
Advance Correction Slip No.76 (ACS No.76)
Sub: Removal of hardship being faced in availing higher class passes/ escort facility in cases where both the employee and his/her spouse are physically challenged.
1. Hardship faced in availing escort facility by a physically challenged Railway Servant whose spouse is also physically challenged person, due to a restrictive Proviso in the Pass Rules has been brought to the notice of Board. The matter has been examined and in order to mitigate the difficulty being faced by such Railway Servants, it has been decided with the approval of Competent Authority to suitably amend the relevant provision. Accordingly, the 1st proviso, below Item No.3(xxv) under the General Rules relating to Privilege Passes/PTO in Schedule-II of Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 (Second Edition-1993) is amended as follows:-
“Provided the facility at 1, 2 & 3 above will be allowed only on the recommendation of the DMO and where the employee has no family or eligible member for inclusion in the pass. However, the 2nd part of the condition will not be applicable where the employee’s spouse and other member(s) eligible for inclusion in the Pass are physically challenged or invalid or children below the age of 12 years.”
2. The proviso, as amended above, will replace the proviso to Para 2 of instructions contained in Board’s letter No.E(W)93/PS5-1/10, dated 16.12.1993 (RBE No.182/1993), vide which similar facilities were extended to physically challenged retired Railway employees.
3. The other conditions for availing higher class passes/ escort facility as contained in the Pass Rules for serving employees and the instructions cited above in respect of retired employees, including the proviso that no attendant will be given when an escort has been allowed, would continue to be applicable.
4. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Dte. of Ministry of Railways.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 31/2017
Forward reference⇒RBE No.