Advance Increments: RBE No.271/1989 – To Stenographers

No.PC-IV/89/3/121/11, dated 27.10.1989

Sub: Grant of advance increments to Stenographers in subordinate offices for acquiring higher speed in shorthand.

1. In accordance with the provisions contained in this Ministry’s letter No.PC-III/74/INC/3, dated 07.11.1975, Stenographers in the pre-revised scale of Rs.330-560 were granted one or two advance increments respectively on their qualifying at 100 or 120 words per minute in shorthand both at the recruitment stage and while in service, which were not to be absorbed in future increments and the date of next increment after the grant of advance increments, remained the same.

2. Consequent on the revision of pay scales from 01.01.1986 on the recommendations of the IV Central Pay Commission the matter relating to the revision of the rate of the advance increment(s) in respect of those Railway employees who had already qualified and were in receipt of advance increment(s) prior to 01.01.1986 has been under consideration in consultation with Department of Personal and Training. The President is now pleased to decide that the rate of increment(s) in respect of those Railway employees who were already in receipt of advance increment(s) prior to 01.01.1986 in terms of the provisions contained in the letter dated 07.11.1975 referred to above, will be an amount equivalent to the lowest rate of increment in the revised scale corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.330-560.

3. The increments granted on or after 01.01.1986 in the revised scales will also be treated as a separate element and will be only additional increments over and above the pay in the revised scale and not part of the scale.

4. It is also clarified that these additional increments will not count as pay for allowances and as emoluments for Pension/ Gratuity.

5. These orders take effect from the date an employee draws pay in the revised scale of pay under the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 1986.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.271/1989

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.119/2010