Advance Increments: RBE No.56/2001 – To Stenographers
No.PC-V/2000/I/7/6/2, dated 15.03.2001
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-IV/88/Increment/1, dated 27.10.1989 (RBE No.271/1989), Stenographers in the pre-revised scale of Rs.1200-2040 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 upon the revision of pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.1996 on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission, the matter relating to 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 01.01.1996 has been under consideration in consultation with department of Personnel & Training. The President is now please 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 01.01.1996 in terms of provisions contained in the letter dated 27.10.1989 (RBE No.271/1989) referred to above, will be an amount equivalent to the lowest rate of increment in the revised the scale corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale of Rs.1200-2040. It should be ensured that such employees have not already been given benefit of counting the advance increments towards pay fixation in terms of Rule 7(1)(B) of RSRP Rules, 1997.
3. The increment(s) granted on or after 01.01.1996 in the revised scales will henceforth be termed as special allowances and will not count as pay for allowances and as emoluments for pension/ gratuity.
4. These orders take effect from the date on which an employee draws pay in the revised scale of pay under the RSRP Rules, 1997.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.56/2001
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.119/2010