IREC Rule No.2005: Pay During Foreign Service (FR-114)

2005. Pay During Foreign Service (FR-114):-

A railway servant will draw pay during foreign service from the foreign employer from the date on which he relinquishes charge of his post in Government service. Subject to any restrictions which the President may by general order impose, the amount of his pay, the amount of joining time admissible to him and his pay during such joining time, will be fixed by the authority sanctioning the transfer in consultation with the foreign employer.

Government Of India’s Decision: The President is pleased to issue, under Rule 2005 (FR-114), the following orders regulating the amount of remuneration which may be sanction by a competent authority for a railway servant transferred to foreign service;

(i)    When the transfer of a railway servant to foreign service is sanctioned, the pay during foreign service which he shall receive in such service must be precisely specified in the order sanctioning the transfer. If it is intended that he shall receive any remuneration, or enjoy any concession of pecuniary value in addition to his pay proper, the exact nature of such remuneration or concession must be similarly specified. No railway servant will be permitted to receive any remuneration or enjoy any concession which is not so specified; and if the order is silent as to any particular remuneration or concession, it must be assumed that the intention is that it shall not be enjoyed.

(ii)    The following two general principles must be observed by the competent authority in sanctioning the conditions of transfer-

(a)   The terms granted to the railway servant must not be such as to impose an unnecessarily heavy burden on the foreign employer which employs him.

(b)   The terms granted must not be so greatly in excess of the remuneration which the railway servant would receive in Government service as to render Foreign Service appreciably more attractive than Government service;

Provided that if his transfer to foreign service involves the assumption of duties and responsibilities of far greater importance than those attached to his post in Government Service, his pay during foreign service may be specially fixed with due regard both to his status and pay in Government Service and to the nature of the work for which he is transferred.

(iii)   Provided that the two principles laid down in paragraph (ii) above are observed, a competent authority may sanction the grant of the following concession by the foreign employer. Such concession must not be sanctioned as a matter of course, but in those cases only in which the competent authority considers that circumstances justify their grant;

(a)   The payment of contributions towards leave-salary and pension under the ordinary rules regulating such contributions.

(b)   The grant of traveling allowance under the ordinary traveling allowance rules applicable to railway servants and of permanent traveling allowance, conveyance allowance.

(c)   The use of State tents, boats and transport on tour; provided that this is accompanied by a corresponding reduction in the amount of traveling allowance admissible.

(d)   The grant of free residential accommodation, which may be furnished, in cases in which the competent authority considers this to be desirable, on such scales as may seem proper to the competent authority.

(e)   The use of foreign employer’s motors, carriages and animals.

(iv)     The grant of any concession not specified in paragraph (iii) above requires the sanction of the President.