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clause (i) or (ii) of clause (a) above or any Warrant Officer (38) Post in the Railway Board means the post of a Member of the Railway Board and includes the post of

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1/30/2019
Indian Railways
http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/codesmanual/est-code-I/estbl-vol1-chap1-p01-p24.htm#102
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INDIAN RAILWAY ESTABLISHMENT CODE (Vol - I)
||  Index  ||  Chapter 1  ||  Chapter 2  ||  Chapter 3  ||  Chapter 4  ||  Chapter 5  ||  Chapter 6  || 
 
|| Chapter 7  ||  Chapter 8  ||  Chapter 9  ||  Chapter 10  ||  Chapter 11  ||  Chapter 12  ||
 
||  Appendix & Annexure   ||
Chapter 1
 
General 
 101.     scope and extent of Application.—This Chapter and the next contain the rules governing general
conditions of service applicable to Railway servants.  Some of these rules correspond to the Fundamental Rules and
Supplementary Rules applicable to all Civil servants (other than Railway servants) under the Indian Union, who are
subject to the rule making powers by the President. 
 102.     Power to interpret rules. —The power of interpreting the rules in this volume is reserved to the
President. 
 103. Definitions. —Unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context, the terms defined below are
used in this Code in the sense herein explained. 
(1)        Accounts officer means an Officer of the Accounts Department as defined in para 102 of the Indian Railway
Code for the Accounts Department. 
 
 
(2)        The act means the government of India Act, 1935. 
(3)        Actual travelling expenses means the actual cost of transporting railway servant with his domestic servant and
personal luggage, including charges for ferry and other tolls and for carriage of camp equipment if necessary.  It does not
include charges for hotels, travelers bungalow  or refreshments or for the carriage of stores or conveyances or any
allowance for such incidental losses or expenses as the breakage of crockery, wear and tear of furniture and the
employment of additional domestic servants. 
(4)        Apprentice means a person deputed for training in a training in a trade or business with a view to
employment in railway service, who draws pay at monthly rates from Government during such training but is not employed
in or against a substantive vacancy in the cadre of a department. 
(5)        Average Pay means the average monthly pay earned during the 10 complete months immediately
preceding the month in which the even occurs which necessitates the calculation of average pay. 
Provided that in respect of any period spent on foreign service out of India the pay which the railway servant
would have drawn if on duty in India but for foreign service out of India shall be substituted for the pay actually drawn: 
Provided further that in the case of railway servants entitled to running allowance, average pay for the purpose of
leave salary shall include a fixed component representing the pay element in the running allowances, as notified  by the
government through administrative instructions from time to time. 
(6)        Assistant Officer means an Officer in Group, ‘A’ drawing pay on the scale applicable to junior scale
officers. 
(7)        Cadre means the strength or a service or a part of a service sanctioned as a separate unit. 
(8)        Camp equipage means the apparatus for moving a camp. 
(9)       Camp equipment means tents and the requisites for pitching and furnishing them, or where tents are not
carried, such articles of camp furniture as it may be necessary, in the interests of the public service, for a railway servant
to take with him on tour.  
(10)      Compensatory Allowance means an allowance granted to meet personal expenditure necessitated by
the special circumstances in  which duty is performed.  It includes a traveling allowance. 
(11)      Competent Authority in relation to the exercise of any power under these rules, means the President or
any authority to which such power is delegated in Appendix VI. 
(12)      Constitution means the Constitution of India. 
(13)      Day means a calendar day, beginning and ending at midnight; but an absence from headquarters which
does not exceed twen

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