RBE No.156/2007: Mutual Transfer

No.E(NG)I-2007/TR/26, dated 04.12.2007

Sub: Implementation of mutual transfer orders.

1. It has been brought to the notice of this Ministry that the request for mutual transfer of employees are not being processed/implemented by authorities concerned in the Railways/Divisions/Units and even after such transfers are accepted, the same or not implemented for the reason that one Railway/Division/Unit wait for the other Railway/Division/Unit to relieve the employees first. This leads to avoidable Staff grievances and representations.

2. The Ministry of Railway have taken a serious view of the matter inasmuch as mutual transfer on the one hand enable transfer of an employee to a place of his choice with no or minimum loss of seniority and on the other since such transfers are on one-to-one basis in the same grade, the Railway/Division/Unit get the replacement simultaneously. Therefore, the Ministry of Railway Desire that:-

(i) The request for mutual transfer should be processed/accepted as soon as they are received subject to fulfillment of prescribe conditions; and
(ii) Once the transfers are accepted, the employees concern should be relieved immediately without waiting for the other unit to relieve employees first.

3. It has also been decided that it should be the responsibility of concerned Head of Department of concerned Railway under whom the staff is working to ensure compliance of above decision in each and every case of mutual transfer.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.156/2007

Forward reference⇒RBE No.