RBE No. 81/2020: MACPS – Clarification

No.PC-V/2016/MACPS/1, dated 18.09.2020

S.No.PC-VII/158

Sub: Clarification on reckoning of re-promotion of an employee fixed under FR 22(I)(a)(2) for the purpose of financial up-gradation under MACPS.

1. References have been received in Board’s office from some of the Railways, seeking clarification on the above mentioned subject. The issue has been examined in consultation with the DOP&T, the nodal department of the Government on MACPS. It has been observed that MACPS guidelines do not make a special provision for transferred employees vis-à-vis other employees in the new organization for determining their eligibility for further financial up-gradation, as the actual pay drawn by a transferred employee on promotion/ re-promotion in the new organization is of no consequence for determining his eligibility for further financial up-gradation under MACPS. It has further been observed that MACPS does not allow for ignoring promotion earned in the new organization. As such it is clarified that promotion earned in the new organization either to the same level (i.e. level from which the employee was reverted in the old organization before transfer) or to a higher level, is to be counted as an offset against entitlement for further financial up-gradation under MACPS. For better appreciation illustrations are cited in the enclosed annexure. The cases may be decided accordingly.

2. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

3. This disposes off Southern Railway’s letter No.P.481/TVC/E/VII/PC/MACPS, dated 05.12.2018 and East Coast Railway’s letter No.ECoR/Accts/BBS/Admn-Bills/4268, dated 26.12.2018.

ANNEXURE

1. Illustration cited by Southern Railway is as under:-

Post	Pay Scale/ GP	Date	Remarks
ASM	330-560/ GP 2800	13.01.1983	Appointment
SM	5000-8000/ GP 4200	01.03.1986	Promotion
ASM	GP 2800	15.09.1990	Transferred by granting pay protection
SM	5000-8000/ GP 4200	01.10.1999	Re-promotion (pay fixed under FR22(1)(a)(ii)
	GP 4600	01.10.2009	3rd Financial up-gradation(*)

(*) In this case the employee is eligible for 3^rd financial up-gradation in GP 4600 after 10 years from re- promotion or 30 years from the date of direct entry grade whichever is earlier. In this case it is 01.10.2009.

It is also to be noted that the employee is not eligible for further financial Up-gradation in GP 4800 as he has already been promoted twice and granted 3^rd financial up-gradation in GP 4600.

2. E. Coast Railway has cited the following illustration:-

Post	Pay Scale/ GP	Date	Remarks
JAA	4500-7000	01.06.1994	Appointment
AA	5500-9000	01.06.1997	Promotion
JAA	4500-7000	04.08.1998	Transferred to lower post with pay protection
AA	5500-9000	01.10.2003	Re-promotion but fixed with FR22(1)(a)(ii)

In this case the employee is eligible for 3^rd financial up-gradation after 10 years from re-promotion or 30 years from the date of direct entry grade, whichever is earlier.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 81/2020

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