Apprentices: RBE No.16/2015 – Rates of Stipend
No.E(MPP)/2015/6/2, dated 09.03.2015
Sub: Forwarding of Gazette Notification No.G.S.R. 910(E), dated 19.12.2014, regarding enhancement of rates of stipend for Graduate, Technician and Technician (Vocational) apprentices under the Apprentices Act, 1961.
Please refer to Ministry of Railway’s letter No.E(MPP)/2007/6/3, dated 23.08.2007 (RBE No. 109/2007), dated 09.03.2011 (RBE No.31/2011) and E(MPP)/2013/6/7, dated 15.01.2014 (RBE No. 08/2014).
It has been decided that the Trade Apprentices engaged on the Indian Railways under the Apprentices Act, 1961 should be paid a stipend with effect from 19.12.2014 at the revised rates as notified in the Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour & Employment’s Notification No. G.S.R.910(E), dated 19.12.2014 published in Part II, Section 3, sub-section (1) of the Extraordinary Gazette of India on 23.12.2014 (copy of the notification is enclosed). The expenditure should be made from within the existing budget allotment.
This issue with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
Please acknowledge receipt.
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Directorate General of Employment and Training
Notification, dated 19.12.2014
GSR 910(E) – In exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 37 of the Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), the Central Government, after consulting the Central Apprenticeship Council hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Apprenticeship (Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2014.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their Publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992, in Rule 11, in sub-rule (2), for Clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) and the entries relating thereto, the following entries shall be substituted, namely:-
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Apprentices |
Rate of stipend |
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(a) |
Graduate apprentices |
Rs.4984 per month |
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(b) |
Sandwich course (student from degree Institutions) |
Rs.3542 per month |
|
(c) |
Technician Apprentices |
Rs.3542 per month |
|
(d) |
Sandwich course (Students from diploma Institutions) |
Rs.2890 per month |
|
(e) |
Technician (Vocational) Apprentices |
Rs.2758 per month |
Note: The Principal Rules were published in the Gazette of India, Part-II, Section-3, sub-section (i), dated the 1st August, 1992 vide Notification numbers GSR 356, dated the 15th July, 1992 and last amended vide Notification number GSR 680(E), dated the 22nd September, 2014.
Download railway Board Circular RBE No. 16/2015
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.81/2016,