IREC Rule No.1423: Compensatory Project Allowance
1423. Compensatory Project Allowance To Open Line Staff Employed On Construction And Survey Projects:-
Railway servants employed on construction or survey projects may, subject to the following conditions, be granted compensatory (Construction or survey) Project allowance at the rates shown below;
| Pay / Grade | Rate Quantum |
| Basic Pay below Rs.950 | Rs.75 |
| Basic Pay of Rs.950 and above but below Rs.1500 | Rs.150 |
| Basic pay of Rs.1500 and above but below Rs. Rs.2000 | Rs.225 |
| Basic pay of Rs. 2000/- and above but below Rs. 3000 | Rs.300 |
| Basic pay Rs.3000 and above | Rs.375 |
Railway employees whose offices have been located in the project area not specifically for the work of project authorities shall be allowed project allowance @50% of the above rates.
[Authority: RBE No.193/1986, No.PC-IV/86/Imp/AL-15, 14.10.1986]
Note:
(i) The term Pay referred to above has reference to the revised scales of pay as notified in the Railway services (Revised Pay) Rules, 1986, as amended from time to time. For persons who have elected to retain the pre-revised scales of pay, Compensatory (Construction / Survey) Project Allowance will be admissible at the above mentioned rates but in their case ‘Pay’ will include dearness pay, dearness allowance and interim relief at the rates in force on 31.12.1972.
(ii) For the purpose of calculating the compensatory (Construction / Survey) Project allowance, pay shall include special pay, as defined in Rule 1303 [FR-9(21)(a) (i)] and not any kind of allowance.
(iii) The Project allowance shall ordinarily be sanctioned only for ‘New Lines’ or ‘Restorations’ or ‘surveys’.
(iv) The Project allowance will not be admissible for ‘Doublings’ except under very special circumstances to be decided by the Railway Board.
(v) The cases of ‘Projects’ other than ‘New Lines’ or ‘Restoration’ or ‘Surveys’ will be decided by the Railway Board on merits.
(vi) (a) The Project Allowance will be admissible also to temporary staff recruited through Railway Recruitment Boards, or otherwise by a competent authority, if they are not locally recruited staff, as well as to staff engaged on re-employment terms. As Group ‘C’ staff as a rule are not recruited locally and recruitment of Group ‘D’ staff also is not confined to only the local Employment Exchange, this will exclude only such Group ‘D’ staff as are recruited locally (through the local Employment Exchange or otherwise). Construction allowance will not be admissible to casual labour.
(b) Staff employed in connection with surveys, new lines under construction, restoration of dismantled lines and such other projects as are specifically approved by the Railway Board will be eligible for the allowance wherever employed in connection with these works i.e., whether residing within the project site or area or not.
(c) This allowance will not be admissible in localities where compensatory and / or house rent allowances have been sanctioned to all railway servants by general orders. As an exception to this general principle, however, staff residing in ‘C’ class towns, most of whom draw relatively very small amounts as house rent allowance, will be permitted to draw either the construction / survey allowance, or the other compensatory (house rent) allowance, whichever is higher.
(d) The staff employed partially on a survey / construction or other project approved by the Railway Board, for the purpose of drawing this allowance, and partially on other projects for which this allowance is not admissible , will be entitled to draw this allowance so long as they are closely associated with the construction / survey or other project work.
(vii) Staff transferred to the project even where such transfers involve promotion, will be eligible for the Project Allowance.
(viii) The Project Allowance will be admissible during leave also, subject to the condition that the railway servant should certify that while on leave he continued to incur a considerable portion of the expenditure for which the allowance had been sanctioned.
(ix) Survey, construction and project staff and gazetted railway servants will draw this allowance for the duration of sanction to the staff in connection with the survey, & C. In the case of surveys, however, the allowance will be admissible only during the period of field work and not during recess periods.
Note:
(1) The Project Allowance may be sanctioned by the General Managers but the question whether a particular project / survey / new line construction will qualify for the grant of construction/survey allowance or not should be referred to the Railway Board for decision.
(2) Railway servants governed by the ex-Company Railway rules or ex-Indian States Railways Rules when employed on construction / survey / projects will be eligible for construction or survey and consolidated traveling allowance admissible to them under their respective rules. In case there is no provision for compensatory (construction or survey) Project Allowance under their rules, the principles and the scales of allowance laid down in this rule shall apply.
(3) The staff of the construction organization, who are otherwise eligible for it, may continue to get the Project Allowance for a maximum period of 12 months after the opening of the line / project for both goods and passenger traffic, provided that;
(i) When a line / project is opened in sections, the opened section(s) would be treated as a separate line / project for this purpose.
(a) Staff engaged in connection with the opened section(s) only will , therefore be eligible for the Project allowance up to a maximum period of 12 months after the opening of the section(s) to goods and passenger traffic.
(b) Staff engaged partly in connection with opened section(s) and partly in connection with the rest of the line / project would be deemed to be engaged in connection with the rest of line/project for so long as they are closely associated with the rest of line / project; such staff will, therefore, be eligible for the allowance up to a maximum period of 12 months after the opening of the rest of the line / project to goods and passenger traffic.
(ii) During the period of 12 months referred to above the Project Allowance will be paid only to those staff otherwise eligible for it who were a part of the construction organization and were in receipt of the allowances before opening of the line/project or the Section thereof or as the case may be the section(s) thereof for goods and passenger traffic.
Railway Board’s Decision:
The Project allowance will be admissible to the temporary Assistant Officers recruited through the Union Public Service Commission from 9th April, 1956 or the date from which they qualify for the grant of such allowance whichever is later.
[Authority: No.E(GR)56/RC/2-42, 09.02.1956]