RBE No. 109/2007: Stipend – Apprentices – Revised Rate of Stipend

No.E(MPP)2006/6/3, dated 23.08.2007

(SC No.14 to MC No.08)

Sub: The Apprentices Act, 1961 – Payment of stipend to the Trade Apprentices – Increase in the rate of.

Please refer to Railway Ministry’s letter No.E(MPP)2000/6/5, dated 12.06.2001 (RBE No. 112/2001) on the above subject.

It has been decided that the Trade Apprentices engaged on the Indian Railways under the Apprentices Act, 1961 should be paid stipend with effect from 21st March, 2007 at the revised rates as notified in the Ministry of Labour’s Notification No.DGET-23(1)/2003-AP, dated 28.03.2007 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary (Copy of the Notification is enclosed). The expenditure should be met from within the existing budget allotment.

This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

Please acknowledge receipt.

Ministry of Labour and Employment

Directorate – General of Employment and Training

F.No.DGET-23(1)/2003-AP, dated 28.03.2007

NOTIFICATION

GSR 214 (E): In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 37 of the Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), the Central Government after consulting the Central Apprenticeship Council, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992, namely:-

1. (1)   These rules may be called the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Rules, 2007.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their Publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992, in rule 11, in sub-clause (1), for clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) and the entries relating thereto, the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:-

During the first year of training: Rs.1090 per month

During the second year of training: Rs.1240 per month

During the third year of training: Rs.1440 per month

During the fourth year of training: Rs.1620 per month

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 109/2007

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.