POST RETIREMENT COMPLIMENTARY PASS (SCHEDULE - IV)
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RAILWAY SERVANTS (PASS)
RULES,1986 (1993 EDITION)
SCHEDULE - IV
POST RETIREMENT
COMPLIMENTARY PASS
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Category |
Number of passes admissible in one year |
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Group A & B |
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(a) |
With Railway service of 20 years or more
but less than 25 years. |
2 Sets |
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(b) |
With minimum Railway service of 25 years |
3 Sets |
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Group C |
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(a) |
With Railway service of 20 or more but less
than 25 years. |
1 Set |
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(b) |
With minimum Railway service of 25
years |
2 set |
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[Group D]* |
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(a) |
With minimum Railway service of 20 years (ACS 35 vide
E(W)95 PS5-8/1, dated 27.3.1996) |
1 Set Every year |
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Note: A benefit of
additional 5 years service for post-retirement complimentary passes may be
allowed to those medically decategorised /unfit Railway servants who retire
either by refusing to accept the alternative post or the alternative post
being not available. |
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Conditions for issue of
post-retirement complimentary pass
i.
Post-retirement complimentary Passes
are issued to Railway servants for self, wife/husband, children and [widowed dependent
mother (E(W)95PS5-1/6 dated 16.2.1996 (RBE 13/1996)] only subject to
the same conditions as applicable to railway servants in service.
ii.
Subject to the conditions stipulated
in (iii) below, a retired Railway servant will be eligible to the same class of
Post-retirement Complimentary pass, as he was enjoying at the time of service.
iii.
Retired Railway servant who was
officiating in the higher grade at the time of quitting service shall be
granted post-retirement complimentary passes of the number appropriate to the
post held by him in the substantive capacity. However the full benefit of
post-retirement complimentary passes corresponding to the higher post as to
their number and class may be given to those Railway employees-
a.
{who have been promoted
to higher grade on regular basis and retires from the higher grade.}**
**substituted
vide Board's letter No. E(W)95PS5-1/11 dated 31.5.1995 (RBE 51/1995)
b.
where the promotion in the higher
grade is on ad-hoc basis after working for a minimum of 3 years in the higher
grade; or
c.
Where service after regular promotion
falls short of 2 years but the total regular service added to adhoc
service in the higher grade is 3 years or more the full benefit of
post-retirement complimentary passes as to their number and class may be given.
iv.
a.
Post Retirement Complimentary Passes
shall not be issued to those Railway servants who are dismissed from service.
b.
Post Retirement Complimentary Passes
shall also not be issued to those Railway servants who are removed from service
on or after 26.10.2005.
c.
d.
Post Retirement Complimentary Passes
shall be issued to those railway servants who are dismissed or removed from service
on or after 26.10.2005 but are granted compassionate allowance in terms of Rule
65 of Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993. Post Retirement Complimentary
Passes shall be issued to such dismissed/ removed railway servants from the
date of grant of compassionate allowance.
(Authority: Railway Board's letter No. E(W)2002PS5-8/5 dated
26.10.2005 )
Replaced
vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)2002PS5-8/5 dated 26.10.2005 (RBE
180/2005).
Post
retirement complimentary passes shall not be issued to those Railway Servants
who are dismissed from service and to those retired railway servants whose
Whole of gratuity and pension has been withheld permanently as a result of
D&A proceedings.
Post
retirement complimentary passes shall not be issued to those Railway servants
who are dismissed from service.
Amended
vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)2002PS5-8/5 dated 20.01.2005 (RBE 11/2005)
v.
In the year in which the Railway servant
retires from service he is entitled to that number of single journey
Post-retirement complimentary passes which represents the difference between
the number of privilege passes he is normally entitled to in a calendar year
while in service and the number actually availed by him, provided the total
number of Post-retirement complimentary passes applied for after the date of
retirement does not exceed the number of post-retirement complimentary passes
for which he is entitled in a calendar year.
vi.
In cases where both husband or wife
are retired Railway servants, they may avail the complimentary passes on
each other's account.
vii.
When a retired Railway servant himself
or a member of his family eligible for inclusion in post-retirement
complimentary pass is blind in both eyes, and travels alone, one attendant may
be allowed to travel in the same class in which the blind person is travelling
duly including the attendant in the complimentary pass, on production of a
certificate from Medical Officer of the Railway concerned to the effect that
the person concerned is blind in both the eyes.
viii.
A benefit of 5 years service on
voluntary retirement is granted towards the qualifying service for the grant of
post-retirement complimentary passes on the same conditions as are laid down in
Board's letter No. E(P&A)I 77 RT-46 dated 9.11.77.
ix.
Members of the Railway Board including
Chairman and Financial Commissioner can travel by Rajdhani Expresses on certain
conditions as given in item (xxxii) of Schedule II for serving Board Members.
x.
In the case of Railway employees
governed by the Pension Rules, the breaks in service which are condoned for the
purpose of pension and death-cum-retirement gratuity may be condoned for the
purpose of post-retirement complimentary passes and service preceding the break
counted for the purpose of post-retirement complimentary passes. Likewise
breaks in service which are condoned for Special contribution to PF for
non-pensionable employees may be taken as condoned for post-retirement passes.
xi.
Periods of service in non-railway
departments or establishments rendered prior to joining railway service will
not, however, count under any circumstances.
xii.
Passes to retired employees are not
admissible over the Nilgiri Railway during the months of April, May and June.
xiii.
Misuse of a post-retirement pass
renders the retired Railway servant renders the retired Railway servant liable
to be deprived of the privilege of getting such passes.
xiv.
All First 'A'/First Class
complimentary Pass Holders are entitled to take one attendant free with them in
Second Class/Sleeper Class (clarified vide No. E(W)97PS5-1/4 dated
29.5.1997) subject to the conditions stipulated for privilege passes.
Senior
Citizen I/ I 'A' pass holders can carry a companion in lieu of attendant
subject to following conditions:
i.
The facility of a Companion will be
provided only on the post-retirement complimentary Ist and I 'A' Passes
in which there is already a provision to carry an Attendant as per the Railway
Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986.
ii.
The facility of a Companion will be
allowed only to retired railway servants who are above the age of 65 years.
iii.
The facility of a Companion in lieu of
attendant will be permitted only when the pass holder and/or eligible members
of family above the age of 65 years will be travelling along with the Companion
in Sleeper class / II class. ###{ The senior citizens are also allowed to
take a companion along with them in higher class on payment of full difference
of fare between sleeper class/ II class and the class in which the retired
railway employee travels.} ACS No. 44. In other words, if any other eligible
members of the family below the age of 65 years is included in the pass, then
the facility of travel in Sleeper Class /II class with a Companion will not be
permitted.
(Authority: Board's letter No. E(W) 96PS5-812 dt. 17.2.2004)
Accordingly,
senior citizen railway employees will have the option either to carry an
"Attendant" in Sleeper class/ Ii Class while they themselves are
travelling in I class/ AC 2-tier or carry a "Companion" in Sleeper
class/ II class in lieu of an Attendant if the pass holder themselves travel in
Sleeper class/ II class. In case a Companion is provided, the pass issuing
authorities shall take a specific request for the same and also mention the
ages of the persons included in the pass, and the following endorsement shall
be made on the pass:
{"Companion in lieu of Attendant is
permitted only when the pass holder and/or other family member of more than 65
years of age is/are travelling in Sleeper Class/II Class or in higher class on payment of
difference of fare between SL/II class and the class in which the retired
railway employee travels}***
{The
facility of companion in lieu of attendant may, however, be permitted when the
pass holder and/or eligible members of family above the age of 65 years are
travelling alongwith the mentally retarded and/or physically disabled son or
daughter of the retired railway employee, who is eligible to be included in the
Post Retirement Complimentary Pass as per rules.}^^^
**
ACS No. 11 Provision for
the companion inserted vide Board's letter No. E(W)96 PS5-8/2 dated 5.1.1999
(RBE No. 3/1999)
***
ACS No. 30 Endorsement
revised vide Railway Board's Letter No. E(W)96PS5-8/2, dated 19.1.2001 (RBE
14/2001).
###
ACS No. 44 Modified vide
Advance Correction Slip No. 44 issued under Railway Boards letter No. E(W)96PS5-8/2
dated 17.2.2004 (RBE 33/2004).
^^^
ACS No. 45 Added vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)96PS5-8/2 dated 12.7.2004
(RBE 148/2004).
xv.
A child adopted after retirement/
superannuation, as the case may be, may be included in the post-retirement
complimentary passes provided there is a satisfactory proof of adoption
irrespective of the fact whether adoption is permissible or not under the
Personal Law governing retired railway servant.
xvi.
Post-retirement complimentary passes,
when requested by the Retired railway employee to be sent by post, should be
despatched by Registered Post at the Railway's cost.
xvii.
Period of apprenticeship that does not
count towards pension will not be taken into consideration for the purpose of
grant of post-retirement complimentary passes.
xviii.
Pass Issuing Authority shall satisfy
himself about the identity of the retired Railway employee before issuing the
Post retirement complimentary pass.
xix.
Railway administration shall issue an
identity card bearing the photographs of superannuated/ retired railway
employee and the family members eligible for inclusion in the post retirement
passes. Such retired railway employees travelling on post retirement
complimentary passes will have to carry the identity card to enable railway
staff on duty to verify the identity of all those travelling on such passes.
xx.
{One set of post-retirement
complimentary pass shall be disallowed for every month of unauthorised
retention of railway quarters by the retired officers/staff. For this
purpose, a part of month exceeding 10 days in any calendar month shall be taken
as full month. A show cause notice to this effect may be issued to the
concerned retired employee before disallowing the complimentary passes. The
concerned retired employee shall be allowed the Post-retirement Complimentary
passes after the period during which forfeited passes could have been
admissible is over.}** ACS. No. 18.
**
Inserted vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)99 PS5-1/41 dated 3.11.1999
Inclusion of escort in the
post-retirement Complimentary Passes issued to physically handicapped Retired
Railway employees (Railway Board's Letter No. E(W)93PS5-1/10 dated 16.12.1993
(RBE 182/1993);
i.
In the case of those Retired Railway
employees, who are eligible for three sets of First A post-retirement
Complimentary Passes, may be allowed an option either to avail of the passes as
per their entitlement or avail two sets alongwith an escort in the same class,
in each of the two sets of the passes by surrendering the remaining one set;
ii.
In the case of those Retired Railway
employees, who are eligible for 2 sets of First A post-retirement Complimentary
Passes, an option may be given either to avail of the passes as per their
entitlement or avail one set alongwith an escort in the same class by
surrendering the remaining one set;
iii.
In respect of those Retired Railway
employees, who are eligible for 2 sets of First Class post-retirement
Complimentary Passes, an option may be given either to avail of the passes as
per their entitlement or avail one set alongwith an escort in the same class by
surrendering the remaining one set;
iv.
In respect of those Retired Railway
employees, who are eligible for one set of First Class post-retirement
Complimentary Pass, the facility of an escort in the same class may be allowed
on the single set of pass;
v.
In respect of those Retired Railway
employees, who are eligible for Second Class / Sleeper Class (clarified
vide No. E(W)97PS5-1/4 dated 29.5.1997) post-retirement Complimentary Passes,
one set of higher class of pass but not higher than 1st Class, with an escort
in the same class, may be allowed in lieu of the total entitlement of
post-retirement Complimentary Passes.
Provided
further that the facility of an escort would be allowed only on the
recommendation of a Senior D.M.O. and where the employee has no family member.
The facility of an attendant which is allowed on
Entitlement to travel on
Rajdhani/ Shatabdi Express trains vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)2000
PS5-1/17 dated 7.9.2000 (RBE 158/2000) and further clarified vide letter No. E(W)2000
PS5-1/17 dated 13.10.2000 (RBE 179/2000)
Other facilities
i.
A retired Railway servant may be
issued, on his/her request, one set of complimentary pass 60 days in advance of
the current calendar year from the date of issue, for journeys commencing in
the next year duly debiting such issue of complimentary pass in the next year's
account. The validity of the Pass will be for 3/4 months, as the case may be,
from the date of issue. [ substituted vide ACS 34 E(W)2000
PS5-1/35, dated 19.4.2001 ]
ii.
A retired Railway servant, if he so,
desires, can obtain his post-retirement complimentary passes from an office of
his choice authorised to issue such passes irrespective of the Railway or
office from where he had retired. The Railway thus opted by the retired railway
servant will be recorded in his service records and that railway will be
supplied with all the essential details including specimen signature of the
retired railway servant, date of birth of his children and permanent
residential address. The railway thus opted will prepare and maintain pass
index cards of the retired-railway servant.
iii.
the retired railway servant can change
the option and elect another railway, should it be necessary for him to do so
on account of his having changed the place of residence.
iv.
The Gazetted officers who are holding
independent charge may be authorised to issue post retirement complimentary
passes to retired railway employee permissible under the normal rules on
receipt of requests after verifying their entitlement from the Office from
which they had retired. It is not necessary that such transfer of pass account
should be routed through the General Managers/Divisional Railway Managers.
v.
[Sr. Subordinates in
Grade Rs. 5000-8000 and above and who are in direct independent charge of the
establishment may issue/sign post retirement complimentary passes to retired
employees other then 1A pass holders. {E(W)95PS5-1/17 dated 30.6.1999} (RBE
155/1999)]
Scheme
made permanent vide Railway Board's letter No. E(W)95PS5-1/17 dated 30.01.2002
(RBE 12/2002).
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