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Up-gradation of Companion to First Class/Ist A Post Retirement Complimentary Pass/Widow Pass holder who are of 70 years of age and above, by On-board

Commercial Circular No. 53 of 2013
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 53 of 2013
File numberNo.2013/TG-V/26/6.
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Up-gradation of Companion to First Class/Ist A Post Retirement Complimentary Pass/Widow Pass holder who are of 70 years of age and above, by On-board General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3,

Text of the circular

= of India (Bharat Sarkar!
Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralayal
(Bailway Boartl}

जनरल ER [धन कहर ना ज़ कब) APRA

No.2013/TG-V/26/6. New Delhi, dated 228.2013.

The Chief Commercial Manager,
All Zonal Railways.

Commercial Circutar No. 53 /2013

Sub: Up-gradation of Companion to First Class/Ist A Post
Retirement Complimentary Pass/Widow Pass holder
who are of 70 years of age and above, by On-board.
ticket checking staff.

Instructions were issued vide Board’s letter No.E(W)/96/PS§ 5-8/2 dated
09.09.2009 stipulating that retired Railway employees/Widows of 70 years of age
and above’ who are entitled to Ist Class/Ist ‘A’ Post Retirement
Complimentary/Widow Passes can take a companion in same class by paying 1/3"
of the difference of fare between Sleeper Class/IInd class and the higher class in
which the retired Railway employee/widow travels, in all trains including
Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains, subject to the existing restriction regarding number of
berths in Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains.

2. A clarification has been sought as to whether On-board ticket checking staff
can such up-gradation of companion in the train on realization of requisite
difference of fare

3. The matter has been examined and it has been decided that On-Board ticket

- checking staff may be allowed to upgrade the companion of retired Railway
employees of 70 years and above on realization of 1/3" difference of fare as per
rule stipulated in Board’s letter No.E(W)96 5-8/2 dated 09.09.2009 subject to the
following conditions:

i, On-board ticket checking staff should ensure that necessary endorsement
on this account is made on the Pass and the age of employee should be 70
years or above.

li. | The details of the pass should also be indicated on the EFT issued for this
purpose by the Ticket Checking staff.

4. This issues with the concurrence of Establishment Directorate of Ministry of

Railways
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(Dr.Monica Agnihotri)

Director Passenger Marketing
Railway Board

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Copy to EDE(G) and EDV(T).

. MD/AIRCTC, Bank of Baroda Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi.
‘Manager General /PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
. Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial railway

Staff College, Vadodara
The Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central Railway/Bhusaval, Eastern
Railway Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE Railway,
Muzaffarpur, NF Railway. Alipurduar, Southern railway, Trichy, SE
Railway, Sini, Western Railway, Udaipur.

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

Chemsford Road , New Delhi

. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State entry

Road, New Delhi

. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA),

Room No, 256- A, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi

Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers federation (IRPOF),
Room No. 268, rail Bhawan, New Delhi

Secretary General, All India RPF association, room No. 256 D, rail

' Bhawan, New Delhi
. CRM, Metro railway, Metro Rail Bhavan, 33/1, J L Nehru road, Kolkata-

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Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi Bypass Road,

Manak Nagar, Lucknow-22601 1.

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