RBE No. 40/1994: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Typing Skills

No.E(NG)II/94/RC-1/35, dated 20.05.1994
(SC No.10 to MC No.16)

Sub: Appointment on compassionate grounds – Typing skills for the persons appointed in the Ministerial Cadre.

1. Attention is invited to instructions contained in Board’s letter No.E(NG)II/92/CD/1, dated 17.07.1992 (RBE No. 118/1992) stipulating inter alia that the future direct recruits from open market to the categories of Clerks and Senior Clerks, should possess typing proficiency of 30 w.p.m. in English or 25 w.p.m. in Hindi as an essential qualification besides the prescribed educational qualifications. The question of extending the condition of typewriting proficiency in the case of appointments on compassionate grounds to ministerial cadre has been under consideration of the Board for quite some time.
2. After careful consideration of the matter, Board have decided that the persons appointed on compassionate grounds to ministerial cadre (as Clerks or Senior Clerks) will, henceforth, be required to possess typewriting proficiency of 30 w.p.m. in English or 25 w.p.m. in Hindi within a period of 2 years from the date of appointment, and their appointment will be provisional subject to acquiring the prescribed typing qualification within the stipulated period.
2.1. The above provision will be applicable to the compassionate appointments made during the next two years where after the possession of typing skill will be a pre-requisite condition for eligibility for considering appointment on compassionate grounds, to the ministerial cadre.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.40/1994

Forward reference⇒RBE No. 69/1997