RBE No. 04/2007: Persons with Disabilities – Alternative Employment

No.E(NG)I-2004/RE-3/9, dated 04.01.2007

Sub: The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 -Absorption of disabled / medically de-categorized staff in alternative employment.

Reference this Ministry’s letter of even number dated 07.12.2005 (RBE No. 210/2005) restoring the position that existed with the issue of their letter No.E(NG)I-96/RE-6/9(2), dated 29.04.1999 (RBE No. 89/1999) up to the issue of letter No.E(NG)I-2001/RE-3/8, dated 01.07.2003 (RBE No. 113/2003) regarding absorption in alternative employment/ retention in supernumerary posts of staff declared totally incapacitated for further service even in the lowest medical category.
During discussion in the DC-JCM meeting held on 23/24.10.2006, it was pointed out that the instructions contained in this Ministry’s letter dated 07.12.2005 (RBE No. 210/2005), referred to above have created an impression that the Railways are debarred from accepting request for voluntary retirement from staff who are declared unfit for further service even in the lowest medical category. It is clarified that the scheme of absorption of disabled/ medically de-categorized staff in alternative employment or their retention in supernumerary posts on the one hand and scheme of voluntary retirement on the other hand, are independent of each other, the instructions regulating the former do not, in anyway, interfere with the later.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 04/2007

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