RBE No.140/2000: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Group ‘D’ – Minimum Educational Qualification

No.E(NG)-II/99/RC-1/SC/8, dated 01.08.2000
No. (SC No.42 to MC No.16)

Sub: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds in Group ‘D’ posts – Minimum educational qualification.

Attention is invited to Board’s letter No.E(NG)-II/98/RC-1/139, dated 04.03.1999 (RBE No. 35/1999), laying down that educational qualification of class VIIIth pass for appointment to Group ‘D’ will also apply to appointment on compassionate grounds. It had been further classified vide Board’s letter of even number dated 29.07.1999 (RBE No. 177/1999), that candidates who have been approved for appointment on compassionate grounds prior to 04.03.1999, could be exempted from possessing qualification of class VIIIth pass.
A demand has been tabled by the Staff Side in the JCM/DC (No.19/2000) seeking to exempt those persons, whose cases were under scrutiny or under process for compassionate appointment prior to 04.03.1999, from possessing the minimum qualification of Eighth class.
The matter has been considered by the Board and it has been decided that further to Board’s letter dated 29.07.1999 (RBE No. 177/1999) the cases which were under scrutiny or under process for compassionate appointment in Group ‘D’ before the issue of Board’s letter of 04.03.1999 (RBE No. 35/1999) should be exempted from possessing the minimum qualification of eighth class.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 140/2000

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