Non-Functional Selection Grade: RBE No.135/2000 – Grant to the Organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services
No.PC-V/2000/1/11/3 (Gaz.), dated 14.07.2000
Sub: Grant of Non-Functional Selection Grade to the organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services – Increase in percentage ceiling.
Ref: PC-IV’s letter No.IPC-IV/87/Imp/19, dated 24.08.1987 (RBE No.219/1987).
1. In terms of Railway Board’s letter referred to above, a non-functional selection grade (NFSG) had been introduced in all organised Group ‘A’ Railway Services. Grant of this grade to officers working in JAG was subject to the conditions as prescribed/ modified from time to time by the Department of Personnel and Training and also by Ministry of Railways. In terms of these instructions, the number of posts in NFSG shall not exceed 15% of the Senior Duty posts (i.e. all duty posts of the level of Senior time scale and above in the cadre).
2. The matter related to the percentage ceiling on NFSG has been reconsidered by the Government and in partial modification of the existing scheme it has been decided that in the case of the organised group ‘A’ Central Services the existing ceiling of 15% in the case of NFSG shall be increased to 30% with effect from 06.06.2000.
3. Salient features of the scheme of Non-Functional Selection Grade are summarised below:-
(i) The number of posts in NFSG shall not exceed 30% of the senior duty posts (i.e. all duty posts at the level of Senior Time Scale and above in the cadre.
(ii) There shall be no increase in the overall strength of the cadre.
(iii) The officers shall first hold the post in the basic grade of Junior Administrative Grade (JAG) before they could be considered for appointment to NFSG.
(iv) Since NFSG isa segment of JAG, the strength in NFSG shall not exceed the number of posts available in JAG.
(v) No member (officer) of the Service shall be eligible for appointment to NFSG until he has entered the fourteenth year of service on the 1st January of the year calculated from the year following the year of examination on the basis of which the member was recruited.
(vi) Appointment to NFSG shall be made subject to suitability in terms of procedure laid down earlier.
(vii) Appointment to NFSG shall be made by the Railway Board. The General Managers will have no powers to place officers in this grade even in an ad-hoc capacity.
4. The Ministry of Railways have also decided that these orders shall apply to officers belonging to various organised Group ‘A’ services in the Railways, including the Engineering services and Indian Railways Medical Service and excluding RPF.
5. As NFSG is a segment of JAG and is also ‘non-functional’ in character, appointment to NFSG will not be treated as a promotion but merely a placement in the higher pay scale.
6. These instructions take effect from 06.06.2000.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.135/2000
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.