RBE No. 154/2008: Railway Board Tenure Allowance
No.PC-VI/2008/I/7/5/3, dated 14.10.2008
S.No.PC-VI-36
Sub: Implementation of the recommendations of Sixth Central Pay Commission – Revision of the rates of Railway Board Tenure Allowance applicable to officers of Organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services on their appointment as Deputy Directors/ Joint Directors/ Directors in Railway Board’s office.
1. The officers of Organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services posted as Deputy Directors/ Joint Directors and Directors in the Railway Board are entitled for the payment of Railway Board Tenure Allowance in terms of this office letter No.PC-V/98/I/7/3, dated 28.05.1998 (RBE No. 110/1998).
2. Consequent upon the acceptance of the Report of Sixth Central Pay Commission by the Government, the President is pleased to decide that on their posting as Dy. Directors, Joint Directors and Directors in the office of Railway Board, the officers of the Organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services will be entitled to draw their basic pay plus Railway Board Tenure Allowance on the terms and conditions as stipulated in para 4 below.
3. The President is further pleased to decide that the officers of the non-Railway organized Group ‘A’ services on their appointment to the posts of Dy. Directors/ Joint Directors/ Directors in the Railway Board Secretariat will be entitled either to get their pay fixed in the applicable revised pay bands and grade pay attached to the post or to draw basic pay plus Tenure Allowance, on the terms and conditions as stipulated in para 4 below.
4. The terms and conditions for drawing Railway Board Tenure Allowance on posting in Railway Board’s office will be as under:-
(i) The Officers of Organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services as well as the Officers of the non-Railway Organized Group ‘A’ service posted in the Railway Board’s office as Deputy Directors/ Joint Directors/ Directors will be subjected to a prescribed tenure, on the expiry of which they will be reverted to field posts in Zonal Railways/ Production Units/ Construction Organizations etc..
(ii) Officers belonging to organized Group ‘A’ Railway Services posted in Railway Board’s office as Dy. Directors/ Joint Directors/ Directors will be paid Railway Board Tenure Allowance at the rate of 10% of their basic pay, subject to a ceiling of Rs.4000.
(iii) The allowance will not be paid beyond the normal tenure of 3 years for Dy. Directors, 4 years for Joint Directors and 5 years for Directors.
(iv) No allowance will be admissible to the officers of the Services posted as Executive Directors and above in the Railway Board’s office.
(v) This allowance shall not be admissible to those Dy. Directors/ Joint Directors/ Directors who are given extension or re-employment after superannuation.
(vi) In cases where the tenure posting is to a post with a lower grade pay, the officer going to such a post will draw the grade pay attached to the tenure post without any change in the band pay that was being drawn in the post being held before such tenure posting.
‘Basic Pay’ in the revised pay structure means the pay drawn in the prescribed pay band plus the applicable grade pay but does not include any other type of pay like special pay, etc.
5. These orders shall take effect from 1st September, 2008.
6. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 154/2008
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.182/2017,