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Complementary Card Passes issued on gallantry account to recipients of Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra Awards

Commercial Circular No. 66 of 2017 · 2017-08-31
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 66 of 2017
File numberNo. 2017/TG-1/20/18
Date2017-08-31
TypeCommercial Circular
Topictrain-services
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

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Complementary Card Passes issued on gallantry account to recipients of Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra Awards Awardees will henceforth, be entitled to the same free rail travel facilities as admissible to the

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA & (भारत सरकार)

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (रेल मंत्रालय)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

के मे मं

No. 2017/TG-1/20/18 mo New Delhi, Dated: | 3 .10.2017

The Principal Chief Commercial Manager,

~ All Zonal Railways.

(COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR NO. 66 OF 2017)

Sub: Complementary Card Passes issued on gallantry account to recipients of
Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra Awards.

RAKE

Please find enclosed a copy of letter no. E(W)2008/PS5-6/8 dated 31.08.2017
wherein it has been informed that Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra Awardées will now
onwards be entitled to the same free rail ‘travel facilities as admissible to the recipients of
Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra Awardees. Other conditions of the scheme to grant
complementary passes to the above mentioned Chakra Awardees shall remain the same.

2. Necessary action may please be taken accordingly under intimation to all concerned
as well as this office. ।

DA: As above. ( हि00 ) NEC

(Vikram Singh)
Director Passenger Marketing

Railway Board

Copy to:

1, CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, alt Zonal Railways

2. EDV(T),EDFC,DF(C),PPS/FC, OSD/TC, F(C) & V(SS) branches of Railway Board

3. MD/IRCTC,B 148,11th Floor, Statesman House,Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110001

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

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

Vadodara
6. The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal, , Eastern
Railway/Bhuli-Dhanbad, Northern Railway/Chandausi, East Central railway/Muzaffarpur, NF
Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South Central Railway/Moula Ali, SE Railway/Sini
North Western Railway/Udaipur.
7. Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi Bypass Road, Manak
Nagar, Lucknow-2260011
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. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room No.'370, Rail
Bhawan, New Delhi
11. Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room No, 268
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi
12. Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No. 256-D, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi
13. CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-71 .

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (भारत सरकार)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (रैल मंत्रालय)
RAILWAY BOARD (रैलवे बोर्ड)

No. E(W)2008/PS5-6/8 a New Delhi,g} 08.2017

The General Manager (P),
All Indian Railways

Sub: Complimentary Card Passes issued on gallantry account to recipients of
Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra Awards ! \

As per the existing instructions issued vide Board’s letter of even number dated 7.2.2014 (RBE
No.18/2014), the Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra Awardees are entitled to life-long free rail -
travel by. 1 AC Class / Executive Class for self and a companion in same class over all Indian
Railways (except Metro Railway/Kolkata) inclusive of Rajdhani, Shatabdi & Duronto trains in
addition to the rail travel facilities already admissible to them

Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) have now decided that AshokaChakra and Kirti Chakra
Awardees will henceforth, be entitled to the same free rail travel facilities as admissible to the
recipients of. Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra Awardees

Other conditions of the scheme to grant Complimentary Card passes to the abovementioned
Chakra Awardees shall remain the same

This issues with the approval of Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railwa

(Alok Kumar)
Executive Director, Estt हार)
Railway Board

No. ECW)2008/PS5-6/8 . New Delhi,3} 08.2017
Copy to:

The Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General (Railways), Room No.224, Rail Bhawari, New Delhi
(with 40 spares)

for Financial Commissioner/Railways:
Copy to:-
1. PS/MR, EDPG/MR, OSD(S)/MR, OSD(BYMR PS/MSR(K), EDPG/MSR(K), PS/MSR(A),
EDPG/MSR(

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