IREC Rule No.303: Discharge On Reduction Of Establishment

303.  Discharge on reduction of establishment:-

(1)   No railway servant may be discharged on reduction of establishment except under the orders of the authority competent to abolish the permanent post held substantively by him or of the authority which appointed him to that post, whichever is the higher authority.

(2)   Subject to any general orders issued by the President the selection of pensionable railway servants to be discharged upon reduction of establishment shall be so made as to involve the least charge on account of compensation pension.