Charge Allowance: RBE No.128/2000 – Group ‘B’ Officers Looking After Duties in Sr.Scale

No.E(GP)99/1/33, dated 12.07.2000

Sub:   Payment of charge allowance to Group ‘B’ officers posted to look after duties in Senior Scale.

1.     In certain cases, Group ‘B’ officers when detailed to look after duties of the Sr. Scale posts are allowed charge allowance of Rs.300 per month in addition to their pay in Group ‘B’ subject to certain conditions in terms of Board’s letter No.E(GP)87/1/24, dated 13.11.1987. In the context of the revision in the pay scales based on the Fifth Central Pay Commission’s Recommendations, the quantum of charge allowance presently being allowed has been reviewed and it has been decided that the existing charge allowance be raised to Rs.750 per month in addition to pay in Group ‘B’ subject to condition that pay plus charge allowance should not exceed the pay that would have been admissible had it been fixed under Rule 1313 (FR 22) R-II on regular promotion to Sr. Scale.

2.     The benefit of charge allowance on the above basis in the revised (5^th Pay Commission) scales of pay shall be effective from 01.01.1996 or from the date on which the officer has elected to come over to the new scales of pay, as the case may be. For officers who have elected to retain the old scales of pay in respect of the posts regularly held by them in the pre-revised scales, the above orders shall be admissible only from the date they come over to the revised scales of pay; till such time pay plus charge allowance wherever such officers have been posted to look after duties in Senior Scale on or after 01.01.1996 shall be regulated under the orders already in force.

3.     In all cases where postings to look after duties in Senior Scale have taken place on or after 01.01.1996, the pay of the officer shall be re-fixed on the above lines and arrears, as may be due, shall be paid.

4.     This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.128/2000                                             

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.