Restructuring: RBE No. 266/1985 – Promotion – Refusal for Promotion
No.E(NG)I-84-PM7/43, dated 12.09.1985
Sub: Filling up the post – Restructuring vacancies in the Safety Categories.
1. In this Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)I-75 PM1/44, dated 31.05.1982, it was laid down inter alia that in the Safety Categories staff will be required to put in a minimum of two years of service in each grade before promotion to the higher grade. It was also decided under Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)I-75-PM1/41, dated 26.05.1984 that for reckoning the period of minimum service of two years in the relevant lower grade. Continuous ad-hoc service immediately preceding regular service may be counted. However, in the case of vacancies arising out of restructuring of cadres the condition of two years service in the lower grade was relaxed vide this Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)I-83 PM2/8, dated 07.10.1983. It was made clear in the Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)I-PM2/8, dated 01.02.1985 (RBE No.41/1985) that for vacancies arising after restructuring service of two years in the relevant lower grade has to be physically rendered.
2. However, representations have been received by this Ministry to the effect that a number of vacancies have since occurred in the safety categories subsequent to the date of restructuring due to normal wastage but the candidates with the requisite minimum two years service in the lower grade are not available as many of the eligible staff have been promoted to the present grade against up-graded posts. Accordingly, it is not possible to fill in the vacancies if this condition is to be insisted upon, at the same time it will not be administratively expedient to keep the vacancies unfilled for a long time.
3. After careful consideration of the position, the Ministry of Railways have decided that the minimum service of two years in the lower grade enjoined for promotion in safety categories may be reduced to one year in the case of the promotions to be ordered up to 30th June, 1986. However, an employee can be promoted under this dispensation only after he has been tested by a JA Grade officer of the Department concerned and a competency certificate is granted by the DRM or a Level-I officer personally. It is clarified for the removal of doubt that such a clearance by a JA Grade officer of the Department concerned and the DRM or the Level-I officer concerned would be required over and above the usual process of non-selection or selection, as the case may be. (This disposes of Central Railway’s DO letter No.HPB/661/R, dated 10.10.1984 and the General Manager, Central Railway’s DO No.HPB/785/T/D(i), dated 6th June, 1985).
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 266/1985
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.