RBE No. 41/2014: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Typing Skill

No.E(NG)II/94/RC-1/35, dated 29.04.2014

Sub: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Typing Skill for persons appointed in the Ministerial Cadre.

Attention is invited to this Ministry’s letter No.E(NG)II/94/RC-1/35, dated 12.05.1997 (RBE No. 69/1997), wherein, it has been stipulated that person appointed on compassionate Grounds to Ministerial Cadre (as Junior Clerk or Senior Clerk) are required to acquire type writing proficiency of 30 w.p.m. in English or 25 w.p.m. in Hindi within a period of two years from the date of appointment, and their appointment will be provisional subject to acquiring the prescribed typing qualification within stipulated period. However, these instructions do not specifically state about the further course of action to be taken in case of such appointment, where the candidate fails to acquire the requisite type writing proficiency in the stipulated period.
Pursuant to references received from field units as well as NFIR, the matter has been examined and it has been decided by the Board that candidates appointed on compassionate grounds, who fails to acquire type writing proficiency in the stipulated period, may be shifted to Non-Ministerial and Non-Commercial Cadre. These conditions should be mentioned in the letter of appointment.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 41/2014

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