Government Railway Police: RBE No.41/1986 – Issue of Duty Card Passes to GRP
No.E(W)86 PS5-13/1, dated 21.02.1986
Sub: Issue of Duty Card Passes to the Personnel of Government Railway Police.
1. Instructions have been issued from time to time on the subject of issue of Duty Card Passes to the personnel of the Government Railway Police. A number of references are being received from Zonal Railway Administrations and Inspector General of Police of various State Governments seeking clarifications in regard to issue of Passes to the above personnel. It has accordingly been considered necessary to consolidate the same in a general circular covering the salient points of these instructions to ensure strict compliance with the same. These instructions are as under:
(i) Duty Card Passes: Duty Card Passes are to be issued to the Government Railway Police Personnel who are required to tour frequently and the class of pass issued should not be higher than that allowed to the Railway Officials drawing corresponding salaries, namely, Rs.575 and above I Class; and less than Rs.575, II Class. Where, however, the State Governments do not find this arrangement satisfactory there is no objection to their Government Railway Police personnel being governed by the civil travelling allowance rules, whereunder journeys will be made on tickets purchased on the ordinary way and the permissible travelling allowance drawn, the Railways bearing the actual cost of the tickets of the class admissible to the ‘order staff’ under the civil travelling rules and 1/4th of cost of the tickets admissible to and purchased by the Supervisory Staff.
(ii) Duty Card Pass may also be issued to an Assistant Inspector General or Deputy Inspector General or Inspector General of Police of a State, only if he is in sole charge of the supervision of Railway Police and has no other duties to perform. Therefore, no Duty Card Pass should be granted to an Inspector General, Deputy or Assistant Inspector General or Police whose work does not consist solely of the charge of Railway Police. There is, however, no objection to General Managers issuing duty check passes (to the officer only and not for the family) to an Inspector General or to Deputy or Assistant Inspector General of Police whose duties also involve the supervision of the Railway Police force, but only on those occasions on which they proceed on tour with the particular purpose of inspecting or supervising the Railway Police or on matters directly connected with the Railway Police.
(iii) Duty Card Passes issued to the Officer of the GRP may be made available for the entire jurisdiction of the official concerned even if the same extends to the contiguous railway. The pass will be issued by the Railway covering the headquarters of the GRP personnel concerned.
(iv) As regards the grant of passes to the order lies of Government Railway Police officers, the requisite number of card passes should be issued on indent from the Government Railway Police officers for use by the order lies required to travel on railway duty in the same way as for journeys of peons attached to Railway Officers, namely one peon/ orderly is permitted to accompany one officer,
(v) Passes in favour of the officers of the GRP will be issued with an endorsement permitting the officer’s family* to accompany him while touring only within his jurisdiction and not outside his jurisdiction. However, the family members cannot travel independent of the officer who proceeds on duty.
*Family for purposes of these rules is defined as under:
(a) (i) Wife of an employee whether she is earning or not ;
(ii) Husband of an employees whether he is earning or not;
(b) Sons under 21 years of age, provided they al e wholly dependent on the employee;
(c) Unmarried daughters whether they are earning or not;
(d) Widowed daughters provided they are wholly dependent on the employee;
(e) Step-sons, unmarried step daughters, and one adopted child, subject to the age limit prescribed in (b) above, provided they are wholly dependent on the employee.
(f) Legally divorced daughter, provided she is wholly dependent on, the railway employee for her maintenance and resides with him and has no independent source of income.
Note:-
(i) Family does not cover parents including widowed mother,
(ii) The age restrictions laid down in sub-clause (i) will not apply to bona-fide students of recognised educational institutions. This is not admissible for language/ correspondence courses either whole time or part time and also student sons/ daughters who have appeared in an examination or passed the same till they are re-admitted.
A certificate from the Head of the recognised institutions must be obtained and furnished to the pass issuing authority to prove that he is a bona fide student.
(vi) Officers of the GRP even if drawing pay of Rs.1800 and above per month are not eligible to be issued DCP/ Check Passes in Air-conditioned class.
(vii) The penalty for loss of DCP/ Check Pass will be the same as applicable to Railway Officers which are as under:-
Duty Card Passes
(i) First Class – Rs.35
(ii) Second Class – Rs.12.50
Check Passes
(i) First Class – Rs.10
(ii) Second Class – Rs.5
(viii) The Duty Card Passes as also ‘General’ Card Passes issued to GRP personnel are exempted from affixing of photographs provided he is carrying with him a valid identity card with photograph issued by his parent Department. The requirement in regard to filling up of the entries in the Annexure of the card pass has to be complied with, failing which, the holder will be treated as travelling without valid authority.
2. The above will be supersession of instructions issued on the subject.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.41/1986
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.