Appointment on Compassionate Grounds: RBE No.70/2014 – Family Members

No.E(NG)II/2014/RC-1/SCR/5, dated 08.07.2014

Sub: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds of family members of an ex-Railway servant.

As the field units are aware dependent family members for the purpose of appointment on compassionate grounds means spouse or son [including adopted son] or daughter [including adopted daughter] or brother/ sister in the case of unmarried Government servant, who is fully dependent on the Government servant at the time of death in harness or retired on medical grounds, as the case may be.
Further, in terms of para 2 of letter No.E(NG)III-78/RC-1/1, dated 03.02.1981, General Managers can consider for employment of married daughters, if they satisfy themselves that the married daughters will be the bread-winner of the family of the Railway servant concerned. It has also been stipulated vide instructions issued under letter dated 21.11.2001 (RBE No. 224/2001), that the cases of dependent divorced/ widowed daughters should also be considered for such appointment as in the case of married daughters subject to the condition that former should have been wholly dependent on the ex-employee at the time of death/ medical invalidation of the latter.
Existence of a number of instructions as well as the issue of a specific clause of dependency on the ex-Railway employees has been engaging the attention of this office for sometimes. Accordingly, the matter has been reviewed by the Board and it has been decided that it should be left to the discretion of the family concerned in case of death of ex-employee to request for job to either a spouse or any child [whether son or daughter (un-married/ married/ divorced/ widowed)] subject to the condition that the concerned child will be bread-winner of the family concerned. Further, for this purpose instructions issued by this Ministry vide letter under RBE No. 22/2014, dated 04.03.2014 be read in the same spirit.
However, the dependent of an unmarried male/ unmarried female Railway employee dying in harness/ retiring on medical grounds, may be considered for compassionate appointment by the Railway at its own level, subject to the condition that the candidate proposed for appointment is shown as dependent on ex-employee on the basis of documents such as inclusion/ declaration of names in the pass or in Ration card etc. The condition of inclusion in the pass declaration or Ration cards etc. is only a facilitating factor, and not intended to be a respective one. In the absence of any such documentary proof, the actual position regarding the extent of the dependency may be got verified by deputing a Welfare Inspector to enquire into the circumstances. The relaxation of time limit permissible in the case of minor children of those employees who die in harness would also apply in the case of dependents of those who die as bachelor/ spinster.
Accordingly Para 2 of Board’s instructions No.E(NG)III-78/RC-1/1, dated 03.02.1981, letter No.E(NG)II/88/RC-1/Policy, dated 04.09.1996 (RBE No. 79/1996), No.E(NG)II/88/RC-1/1 Policy, dated 02.05.1997 (RBE No. 66A/1997), No.E(NG)II/99/RC-1/SE-19, dated 05.08.1999 (RBE No. 165/1999) and E(NG)II/2001/RC-1/ER/5, dated 21.11.2001 (RBE No. 224/2001) stand superseded.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 70/2014

Forward reference ⇒ Dated 24.03.2022