RBE No. 68/1990: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Time limit

No.E(NG)II/84/RC-1/26, dated 18.04.1990

Sub: Appointment on Compassionate Grounds – Time limit for appointment.

1. Attention is invited to Ministry’s letter of even number dated 18.04.1985 (RBE No. 112/1985) on the subject of delegation of powers to General Managers, subject to conditions mentioned therein, in regard to appointment on compassionate grounds where the case is not more than ten years old. One of the conditions stipulated therein is that the request for compassionate appointment should have been received by the Railway Administration as soon as the son/ daughter to be considered for appointment has become a major, say within a maximum period of six months.
2. During a PNM Meeting between NFIR and the Board held in August, 1989 a demand was raised by the Federation that the aforesaid condition of a limitation period of six months for submission of application after attaining the age of 18 years, should be deleted. During discussions in the PNM meeting with the Federation in August, 1989 and again in February, 1990, it was explained to them that the condition that application for appointment should have been submitted within a reasonable time, is one of the conditions in which enhanced powers have been delegated to General Managers and that it would not be possible nor would it be appropriate, to delete it. After discussion, however, it was agreed that the maximum period of six months within which the request for compassionate appointment is required to be received by the Railway Administration after the eligible wards attained the age of majority, would be revised as one year.
3. Accordingly Ministry have decided that clause (vii) of para 3 of their letter of even number dated 18.04.1985 (RBE No. 112/1985) should be amended to the effect that the request for compassionate appointment should have been received by the Railway Administrations within the maximum period of one year of the candidate attaining the age of majority instead of six months as laid down earlier.
4. Ministry have also decide that the delegation of powers to General Managers for grant of relaxation of time limit in cases of compassionate appointment as conveyed vide their letters of 18.04.1985 (RBE No. 112/1985) and 03/05.05.1989 (RBE No. 118/1989) and as amended above, will continue to be in force for two more years, i.e. upto 31.03.1992.

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