Descipline and Appeal Rules (DAR) Articles

Disciplinary powers of Principal Heads of Departments under this Schedule shall also be exercised by Senior Executive Directors and Executive Directors who are in independent charge, in Research, Designs and Standards Organisation; Coordinating Heads of Departments in Senior Administrative Grade or by the Heads of Departments in Senior Administrative Grade who are in independent charge.

Every order, notice and other process made or issued under these rules, shall be served in person on the Railway servant concerned or communicated to him by registered post.

may at any time, either on his or its own motion or otherwise, call for the records of any inquiry and revise any order made under these rules or under the rules repealed by Rule 29, after consultation with the Commission, where such consultation is necessary.

Denies or varies to his disadvantage his pay, allowances, pension, Provident Fund benefits, service gratuity or other conditions of service as regulated by rules or by agreement. Interprets to his disadvantage the provisions of any such rule or agreement.

Whenever the disciplinary authority is of the opinion that there are grounds for inquiring into the truth of any imputation of misconduct or misbehaviour against a railway servant, it may itself inquire into, or appoint under this rule or under the provisions of the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850, as the case may be, a Board of Inquiry or other authority to inquire into the truth thereof.

Withholding of increments of pay for a specified period with further directions as to whether on the expiry of such period this will or will not have the effect of postponing the future increments of his pay. Recovery from his pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused by him to the Government or Railway Administration by negligence or breach.

The classes of railway servants who may be placed under suspension and the authorities by whom they may be so placed, shall be as specified in Schedules I, II and III.

These rules may be called The Railway Servants(Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968. They shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1968. Published with the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) Notifications.