RBE No. 64/2009: Increment – Date of Next Increment
No. PC-VI/2008/I/RSRP/I/Pt-3, dated 09.04.2009
S.No.PC-VI/97
Sub: Date of next increment in cases where Railway servants are not able to join posts in a particular grade pay on promotion/ appointment on 1st of January of a year due to Sunday or Gazetted Holiday – Clarification regarding.
1. As per the provisions of Rule 10 of RS (RP) Rules, 2008, w.e.f. 01.01.2006 in the case of all Railway employees there is a uniform date of increment, i.e. 1st of July of every year. Railway servants completing six months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st of July are eligible to be granted the increment. From the above provision of RS (RP) Rules it flows that Railway servants who have rendered less than 6 months of service as on 1st of July of a year will not be eligible to draw increment on that day and their date of increment will fall 12 months later on next 1st of July. Accordingly, all the Railway servants who join posts in a particular grade on account of promotion/ appointment etc. on 1st January of a year will be eligible to draw their annual increment on the 1st of July of that year. However, those who join the posts between 2nd January and 30th June will not be eligible for the same.
2. In the light of the above position, clarification has been sought regarding the date of next increment in cases where Railway servants are not able to join posts in a particular grade pay on promotion/ appointment on first of January of a year due to 1st of January falling on a Sunday or Gazetted holiday. It has been clarified by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure that in the normal course, if a Railway servant was to join post in a grade pay on appointment/ promotion on 1st of January of a year, but he could not join the post only because 1st of January of the year happened to be a Sunday or Gazetted holiday, the Railway servants who join the posts on the 1st working day of the year will be treated to have completed 6 months of service on 1st of July of that year for the purpose of granting them annual increment on that day.
3. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 64/2009
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