RBE No. 07/1996: Sealed Cover Procedure – Promotion from Group ‘B’ to Group ‘A’ or Within Group ‘A’
No.E(D&A)95 RG6-65, dated 17.01.1996
Sub: Promotion from Group ‘B’ to Group ‘A’ and within Group ‘A’ of Railway Officers against whom disciplinary/ Court proceedings are pending – Procedure and guidelines to be followed.
1. Attention is invited to para 3.2 of Board’s letter No.E(D&A)92 RG6-149(B), dated 21.01.1993 (RBE No. 14/1993) on the above subject and the partial modification contained in Board’s letter No.E(D&A)92 RG6-185, dated 12.02.1993 (RBE No. 27/1993).
2. The above provisions are applicable only to cases where any of the minor penalties of censure, stoppage of passes/PTOs, recovery of loss from pay or withholding of increment is imposed.
3. These provisions have been reconsidered by the Board and it has been decided to make these provisions applicable also to cases where the minor penalty of reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a period not exceeding three years, without cumulative effect and not adversely affecting the pension is imposed. Accordingly, the existing para 3.2 of Board’s letter No.E(D&A)92 RG6-149(B), dated 21.01.1993 (RBE No. 14/1993) may be substituted by the following paragraph, which also incorporates the modification already issued under Board’s letter dated 12.02.1993 (RBE No. 27/1993) referred to in para 1 above:-
“However, in the case of ad hoc promotion from Group ‘B’ to Group ‘A’ and promotions within Group ‘A’ (upto and including promotion to SA Grade) those imposed with minor penalties of Censure, stoppage of passes/PTOs, recovery from pay, reduction to lower stage in the time scale of pay and withholding of increments may also be promoted prospectively in their turn with reference to their position in earlier panel(s) of the DPC. In the case of those imposed with minor penalty of reduction to a lower stage in time scale of pay or withholding of increment they cannot, however, be promoted before the expiry of the penalty. However, where the penalty of withholding of increment is to become operative from a future date, the person concerned should be promoted in his turn prospectively with reference to his position in the earlier panel of the DPC and the penalty imposed in the promotion grade for a period which would not result in greater monetary loss. The pay on promotion in all these cases should be fixed under the normal rules with reference to the date of actual promotion.”
4. The above modification will take effect from the date of issue of these instructions.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 07/1996
Forward reference⇒RBE No. 18/2005