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Extension of facility of Complimentary Card passes to parents of unmarried posthumous Chakra awardees and awardees of Police gallantry medals

Commercial Circular No. 28 of 2013 · 2013-04-01
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 28 of 2013
File numberNo. 2011/TG-I/9/P
Date2013-04-01
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
DirectorateTraffic Commercial
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Extension of facility of Complimentary Card passes to parents of unmarried posthumous Chakra awardees and awardees of Police gallantry medals -viz.,Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra, Vir Chakra, Ashok Chakra, Kirti Chakra and

Text of the circular

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Bharat Sarkar)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (Rail Mantralya)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

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No. 2011/TG-I/9/P New Delhi, dated 09 .04.2013

Chief Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways (including Metro railway, Kolkata).

(COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR No. 28 OF 2013)

Sub: Extension of facility of Complimentary Card passes to parents of
unmarried posthumous Chakra awardees and awardees of Police
gallantry medals

A copy of the instructions issued from Establishment Directorate of Board’s
Office vide their letter No. E(W)2008/PS 5-6/28 dated 01.04.2013 on the subject
quoted above is enclosed for information and necessary action.

CRIS will make necessary modification in the software, if required, and will
intimate the date of effect to all Zonal Railways as well as to this office.

DA: As above.
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( Sanjay Manocha)
Dy. Director Traffic Commercial (G)-II
Railway Board
~ Copy to:

1. MD/CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

2. CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways.

3. ADG/PR, EDV (T), EDFC, DF(C), OSD/TC, F(C) & V (SS) Branches of Railway
Board.

4, General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi .

5. MD/IRCTC, Bank of Baroda Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi.

6. Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway Staff
College, Vadodara.

7. The Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central. Railway/Bhusaval, Eastern
Railway Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE Railway, Muzaffarpur, NF
Railway, Alipurduar, Southern Railway, Trichy, South Central Railway, Maula
Ali, SE Railway, Sini, Western Railway, Udaipur.

8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3,

~ Chelmsford Road, New Delhi.

9. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi.

10. 11. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room
No.365-A, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

11.12. Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF),
Room No.268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

12. 13. Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No.549, Rail Bhawan,
New Delhi.

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भारत सरकार Government of India
Ya मंत्रालय, Ministry of Railways
_ "Yaa बोर्ड (Railway Board).
No. ECW)2008/PS 5-6/28 New Delhi, Dated: 01-04-2013

The General Manager(P),
All Zonal Railways.

Sub: Extension of facility of Complimentary Card passes to parents
of unmarried posthumous Chakra awardees and awardees of
Police gallantry medals.

Ref: Railway Board’s letters No. E(W)96/PS 5-6/22 dated 23.02.96,
04.07.96, 29.10.96 and subsequent letters including letter of even

number dated 16-05-2011.
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As per extant policy Ministry of Railways provides. 1* Class/2™ AC
_ Complimentary Card passes to gallantry awardees who are recipients of Chakra awards
-viz.,Param Vir Chakra, Maha Vir Chakra, Vir Chakra, Ashok Chakra, Kirti Chakra and
Shaurya Chakra and to Police gallantry awardees i.e. recipients of President’s Police
Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) and Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG). The aforesaid
Card pass entitles them life-long free rail travel for self along with one companion in
same Class, by 1% Class/2™ AC over all Indian Railways (except Metro Railway/
Kolkata) by any train other than Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains. There have been further
expansior/ liberalisation in the scheme and Chakra awardees have since been permitted
travel by Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains also on the Complimentary Card pass issued to them.
Such Card pass facility has been provided to the widow of posthumous awardees as also
to widow of the gallantry awardee after his death in normal course. In terms of Board’s
letter of even number dated 16-05-2011, the facility of Complimentary Card pass has
been extended to the parents of unmarried posthumous awardees of Param Vir Chakra
and Ashok Chakra.

2. The issue regarding extension of the facility of Complimentary Card passes to
the parents of unmarried posthumous awardees of remaining Chakra awards and of

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