IREC Rule No.1311: [FR-20] Pay During Periods Treated As Duty Under Rule-103(15)(a) [FR-9(6)(b)]
- [FR-20] Pay During Periods Treated As Duty Under Rule-103(15), (a)[FR-9(6)(b)]:-
In respect of any period treated as duty under Rule 103(15)(a) [FR-9(6)(b)], a railway servant may be granted such pay as competent authority may consider equitable but in no case exceeding the pay which the Railway Servant would have drawn had he been on duty under rule FR-9(6)(b).
Government Of India’s Decision:
(1) Pay During Training Of The Officers Of AIRO: A Government servant, who as an officer of the Army in India Reserve, carries out his military training on the expiry of leave out of India taken from his civil appointment, and before joining his civil appointment for duty, should receive pay as follows;
(i) Joining time civil pay from the date of disembarkation in India to the date preceding that on which his military training commenced.
(ii) Full civil pay during the period of training.
[Authority: Government Of India Finance Department No.F-14(25)-R.1/31, 17.08.1931]
(2) Pay During Training Of Reservists Of The Indian Army In Civil Employ: A reservist of the Indian Army in Civil employ will, when called up for periodical military training receive military pay allowances. He will also receive the excess, if any, of the civil pay over his military pay, provided that this concession is specifically sanctioned by the Department of the Government of India or attached and subordinate office concerned, or by the Local Government in whose employ the reservist is serving in his Civil capacity. Except where the civil pay of the reservist is met from the Army Estimates, the extra expenditure involved will not constitute a charge against the Army Estimates.
The periods spent in training and on the journey to and from the place of training, will be treated as duty for purposes of civil leave, pension and increments of civil pay.
[Authority: Government Of India, Finance Department No.F-22-R-1/32, 14.04.1932]
(3) Pay Of Temporary / Officiating Railway Servants During The Period Treated As Duty Under FR-9(6)(b):-
In the case of a temporary / officiating railway servant without any lien on a permanent post treated as on duty under the said rule the authority to whom powers have been delegated under FR-20(511) may fix the rate of pay to be given to him for such period, provided that it shall not, in any case, be more than the officiating pay which the railway servant would have drawn in the normal course.
[Authority: No.F(E)59/FR-1/2,25.05.1959]
Audit Instructions:-
(1) Pay During Training Of An Officiating Officer: A Government servant who is treated as on duty during a course of instruction or training and who, at the time when he was placed on such duty, was drawing higher pay on account of an officiating appointment but for such instruction or training, be allowed to draw pay equivalent to what he would have drawn had he been holding the officiating appointment.
(2) Interpretation Of Certain Expressions Used In FR-20 (Rule 1311): The expressions ‘the pay of any officiating appointment’ occurring in FR-20 (Rule 1311) should be taken to mean ‘the pay which the Government servant drew in the post which he held substantively’ and ‘the pay which the Government servant drew in the post in which he officiated’ respectively. In neither case is there any restriction on the kind ‘pay’ to be drawn, and the expression should, therefore, be held to include special pay, if any, which the Government servant drew in the post which he held substantively or in an officiating capacity.