Pay Protection: RBE No.188/1999 – On Request Transfer
No.F(E)II/91/Misc/2, dated 20.08.1999
Sub: Pay protection to the staff who joined lower post at his own request.
In the PNM meeting held on 7th & 8th November, 1997 staff side vide Agenda Item No.51/1997 brought to the notice of the Railway Board that instructions regarding protection of pay on request transfer from higher to lower post as envisaged in ACS No.19 circulated vide Board’s letter of even number dated 24.02.1995 (RBE No. 19/1995) are being misinterpreted by some Zonal Railway.
The above demand of the staff side has been examined and the position is clarified as under:
In terms of the extant rules (including ACS No.19 issued under Board’s letter of even number dated 24.02.1995 (RBE No. 19/1995) in the case of an employee holding a higher post on regular basis and has completed a minimum period of 24 months in that higher post and seeks transfer on his own request to a lower post, fixation of his pay in the lower grade would be done at the stage equal to the pay drawn by him in the higher post subject to the maximum of the lower post not being exceeded. In case there is no stage in the lower grade equal to the pay being drawn by the employee in the higher post, his pay in the lower grade will be fixed at the stage next below the pay being drawn in the higher post and the difference will be paid as personal pay to be absorbed in future increments.
Accordingly in an example cited by the staff side of an employee holding on regular basis a post of Chargeman ‘A’ in scale Rs.1600-2660 and drawing pay of Rs.1750 seeks transfer to a lower post of Chargeman ‘B in scale Rs.1400-2300, his pay will be fixed at the stage of Rs.1720 and the difference of Rs.30 will be paid as personal pay absorbable in future increments. No DA is admissible on the personal pay under the extant rules.
This disposes of NFIR’s letter No.51/1997 (PNM), dated 06.07.1999 and Western Railway’s letter No.E(P&A)773/2(L), dated 25.03.1999.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 188/1999
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.