RBE No. 77/1995: Promotion – Group ‘D’ & Group ‘C’ Railway Servants – Pending Departmental Proceedings/ Prosecution

No.F(D&A)92 RG6-149(A), dated 27.07.1995

Sub: Promotion of Railway Servants who are under suspension or against whom departmental proceedings/ prosecution have been initiated – Procedure and guidelines to be followed – Cases of promotion of Group ‘D’ & Group ‘C’ Railway Servants.

1. Attention is invited to para 3.10 of Board’s letter of even number dated 21.01.1993 (RBE No. 13/1993) on the above subject.

2. Arising out of a demand made by AIRF in the PNM meeting that the benefit granted to cases of exoneration, as contained in para 3.10 of the instructions referred to above, should also be extended to cases where only a minor penalty has been imposed, the matter has been reviewed by the Board and it has been decided to substitute existing para 3.10 of Board’s letter No.F(D&A)92 RG6-149(A), dated 21.01.1993 (RBE No. 13/1993) with the following:-

“In certain categories of posts where minimum period of service prescribed for promotion from one grade to the next higher grade, a Railway Servant may not be able to put in the prescribed minimum period of service due to his non-promotion on account of suspension etc. In such a case, if the Railway servant is fully exonerated or only a minor penalty is imposed and his suspension is held as wholly unjustified, the period during which his junior was promoted to higher grade should be reckoned towards the minimum period of service for the purpose of determining his eligibility for promotion to the higher grade. However, where the minor penalty imposed is one given in Note (1) of para 3.9 where he is to be promoted only after expiry of the penalty, he will be promoted to the next higher grade only after completing the minimum period of service prescribed in the feeder grade. In other cases where major penalty has been imposed, he should be promoted, if considered suitable by the competent authority, only after completion of the minimum period of service prescribed.”

3. The above modification will take effect from the date of issue of these instructions.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No. 77/1995

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