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Policy for fresh allotment of STD/PCO/ISD/Fax/Iaternet booths at Railway stations

Commercial Circular No. 08 of 2004 · 2004-05-14
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 08 of 2004
Date2004-05-14
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
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Summary

Policy for fresh allotment of STD/PCO/ISD/Fax/Iaternet booths at Railway stations category of persons to which these booths will be allotted, will be determined through a draw of

Text of the circular

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
No.01/TGIV/10/PCO/Review New Delhi, dtd 14.05.2004 |
The General Managers(C),

_Alll Zonal Railways

(Commercial circular No.8 of 2634)

Sub: Policy for fresh allotment of STD/PCO/ISD/Fax/Iaternet booths at Railway
stations.

Ref: Board’s _ letters No.01/FGIV/10/PCO/Policy dtd 224.02 and

: No.O1/TGIV/10/PCO/Review dtd 29.10.02 ं

A Committee was constituted in the Ministry of Railways to review the existing policy for

- allotment of STD/PCO/ISD/Fax/Internet booths. Based on the recommendations made by the
Committee and with the approval of the competent authority the Ministry of Railways have decided to.

-rationalise certain provisions in the existing guidelines. referred to in policy letter dated 22.4.2002

above. The modifications/additions/deletions made in the existing policy are as under :-

1,

Below Para 4. TV, Para V be added as under ;-

“Vv. In case of D, E & F category stations, the applicant should be a local resident of the

atea. The residence would be treated as local residence if it is located within the same district
in which the station, where the booth is proposed to be allotted, is also located. For this, the

‘applicant ‘will be required to submit a certificate of local residence from the DM/ADM of the

district in which the station is located or Voter Identity Card.

~ Para 5.3 has been modified and may be read as under :-

$.3 For the purpose of working out number of booths to be allotted to various categories of

है persons at various categories of stations, the following procedure shall be. adopted :-

“The number of stations located on a Division will be segregated category-wise i.e. A, B

C, D, E & F. After this has been done, a serial number should be given to each booth at the station
g. at Nagpur station, the 0005 will be numbered as NGP/1, NGP/2, etc. The number of booths
assessed for all ‘A’ class stations on the Division will be clubbed and thereafter distributed by
adopting principlé of vertical and horizontal reservation. The same procedure will be adopted for

. *B’ and ‘C’ class stations. The total requirement at ‘D’, ‘E’ & ‘F’ class stations will be clubbed

together for entire division and this: will be treated as one block and thereafter the same principle
as mentioned above, will be adopted. ..To- illustrate, if'there are 100 booths to. be allotted at all ‘A’

. class stations of a particular Division, 25 will be allotted:to. physically tiandicapped persons, 25 to
- ladies and 50 to unemployed youth. Amongst the 25 booths allotted to physically handicapped
-. persons, 15% will be allotted to SC, 7.5% to ST and 27% to OBC and the remaining 50.5% to the

general public. The same method will be adopted in case of women and unemployed youth. The
category of persons to which these booths will be allotted, will be determined through a draw of
lots to be done by any child separately for A, B & C category of stations, and.on combined basis
for D, E & F stations. For one-time identification of booths, a committee of 3 officers at
Assistant/Senior Scale level should be constituted by the DRM. In this manner, each booth will be
allotted a specific number and category of person for allotment which is to be called its booth ID

Review of STD Policy 22:4.02 ae 8d!

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3, Para 5.4 has been modified and may be read es under :-

5.4 After the present coniract is over or in case of tériiination of contract etc., the booths
should be allotted to the person belonging to the category as per the booth ‘ID’. Moreover,
future tenders will be booth specific only. In case, due to construction of new platforms etc,
additional booths are to be set up, the identification for these booths will be done through a
draw of lots'to be done by any child based on the remaining category of persons of the table, as

per the procedure prescribed above.

4, Para 6. thas been modified and may be read as under :-

6.1 For allotment of booths at ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’ category

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