RBE No. 06/2007: Training Allowance – To Instructors

No.E(MPP)2002/13/2, dated 04.01.2007

Sub: Monetary incentive in the form of Training Allowance.

In terms of Board’s letter No.E(S)I-56CPC/194, dated 18.10.1958, staff either one grade lower or two grade lower than the scale of the post of instructor in the training centres can be considered for posting subject to the condition that willing staff are not available in the same grade. It was further clarified vide Board’s letter of even number dated 27.04.2004 (RBE No. 94/2004) that if a suitable candidate is posted in a higher grade in a training centre he cannot avail both the benefits, i.e., the higher grade and training allowance at the same time.
The matter was discussed during the DC/JCM meeting held on the 3rd and 4th April, 2006 and it was decided that the instructions to grant training allowance to instructors, irrespective of the fact that they are inducted from identical grades or from lower scales, be reviewed. The matter has been considered and it has been decided that the selected instructors will not be allowed the option of drawing the pay of the post in the training centre in lieu of training allowance. There is no provision for grant of pay of the ex-cadre post and only Training Allowance at the prescribed rate is to be granted on cadre pay.
Thus, selection of instructors should be done from identical grades only. In case no willing candidates apply for the same, the railways can consider candidates below one/two grades provided the post at the training centre is either downgraded matching with the scale of pay of the selected candidates or transfer the element of the post in which the incumbent was working in his parent cadre. However, this is to be used sparingly. These instructions will not have retrospective effect, so that past cases decided otherwise are not affected.
This has the concurrence of the Associate Finance of Ministry of the Railways.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 06/2007

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