RBE No. 73/1985: Sportsmen – Out of Turn Promotion

No.E(NG)II/85/RR3/1, dated 08.03.1985

Sub: Out of turn promotion to serving Sportsmen.

1. Attention is invited to Ministry of Railway’s letter No.E(NG)III-75/RR, dated 25.11.1976 wherein criteria have been laid down for giving out of turn promotion to outstanding sportsmen on the personal orders of the General Managers. One of the conditions laid down therein is that the sportsmen should have put in five years of service in the existing grade. Where relaxation of this limit is required a reference has to be made to this Ministry.
2. The Ministry of Railways have had occasion to review this matter. They have now decided that the period of five years as the stipulated in the letter referred to above may now be reduced to three years. Other conditions enjoined in the extent orders of this Ministry remain unaltered.
3. These orders will remain in force for a period of two years i.e. up to 31.03.1987.
4. The Ministry also desire to take this opportunity to emphasis that while considering proposal for out of turn promotion to sportsmen, the spirit and objective of the extant instructions which provide for out of turn promotion as an incentive to the truly outstanding sportsmen, should be invariably kept in view.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 73/1985

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