Transfer: RBE No.55/1997 – Counting of Past Service on ‘Own Request Transfer’

E(NG)I-96/PM4/14, dated 17.04.1997

Sub: Counting of service rendered in the old unit on ‘own request transfer’.

1. The question whether a Railway servant who joins another seniority unit on transfer on request on bottom seniority loses only his seniority or also service rendered in the previous unit for the purpose of eligibility for consideration for promotion in the new seniority unit, wherever a minimum service condition is specified, has been considered by the Board in the light of a clarification sought for in this regard by one of the Railway Administrations.

2. It has been decided that since transfer of a Railway servant on request on bottom seniority takes place against direct recruitment quota, he should be treated as a direct recruit in the new seniority unit/ cadre for the purpose of seniority and therefore the service rendered in the absorbing unit alone will count for eligibility wherever a minimum length of service is specified as a condition for consideration for promotion including promotion to general selection posts.

3. Past cases decided otherwise need not be reopened.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.55/1997                                             

Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.