IREC Rule No.1002: Definitions
1002. Definitions:-
In these rules unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context;
(1) Controlling Officer means, in relation to the classes of railway servants specified in the first column of the table below, the officer or authority specified in the corresponding entry in the second column thereof;
| Sl.No. | Classes Of Railway Servants | Controlling Officer |
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1 |
Railway servants under the administrative control of a General Manager | General Manager |
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2 |
Railway servants employed in the Railway Audit Department | Additional Deputy Comptroller and Audit General of India (Railways) |
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3 |
Railway servants employed in a department or office directly under the control of the Railway Board | Head of the Department or office |
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4 |
Railway servants employed in the office of the Railway Board | Secretary, Railway Board |
(2) Children means legitimate children and step-children and shall also include adopted children at the discretion of the Controlling Officer according to the circumstances of each case irrespective of whether the adoption was valid under the personal law of the subscriber, having regard to his religion, or not.
(3) Pay means the average pay as defined in the manner indicated in Rule 103(35) except that in the case of grant of compassionate gratuity to;
(i) A permanent railway servant it will mean the substantive pay admissible to him in the permanent post on which he holds a lien or would hold a lien had it not been suspended on the date of quitting service, and shall include personal pay and special pay;
(ii) A temporary railway servant the pay last drawn by him in the temporary post which he would have officiated continuously but for his death;
Provided that in respect of a railway servant of either case, entitled to running allowances, pay shall also include the monthly average running allowances drawn by the railway servant during 365 days of running duty immediately preceding the date of quitting service limited to 75% of average pay for the same period.
Note-1: Pay for this purpose shall also include ‘Dearness Pay’.
Note-2: The provisions contained in Rule 902(8) equally apply in this case.
Railway Board’s Decision: Railway Board’s decisions under Rule 902(8) shall also apply to this rule.
(4) Railway Servant means a person belonging to the Railway Audit Department or holding a post under the administrative control of the Railway Board, other than a person whose services are obtained on loan from a Department not under the control of the Railway Board or the Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General of India (Railways).
(5) Running Allowance is an allowance ordinarily granted to running staff for the performance of duty directly connected with the charge of moving trains, and includes mileage allowance but excludes special compensatory allowance.
(6) Service for the purposes or these rules means a continuous service paid monthly from railway revenues and includes any periods;
(i) Of officiating or temporary service or service as paid apprentice or as probationer;
(ii) Spent on the works Establishment of the Railway whose pay is paid monthly; or
(iii) Which the President may by general or special order permit to be counted as service.