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Master Circular 52 Re employment Including Employment of Consultants

· 1986-11-17
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Date1986-11-17
TypeRates Master Circular
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cases of such part-time employment, the re-employed Judges will be

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MASTER CIRCULAR
Master Circular No. 52
Re-employment Including Employment of Consultants.
The instructions issued by the Railway Board from time to time on the subject of
'Extension in service/Re-employment after superannuation' were consolidated in
Master Circular No. 33 issued on 03.09.1991. However, these instructions did not
cover appointment of retired Judges of the Supreme Court/High Courts, on
Commissions/ Committees of Enquiry, set up by the Government of India, as well
as engagement of Consultants Ministries/ Departments, to tackle specific
problems with their expert advice. The intention of this circular, therefore, is to
supplement the earlier instructions.
2. General.
Re-employment of railway servants beyond the age of superannuation should
be resorted to, very rarely and in really exceptional circumstances, purely in
public interest. Sixty years of age is the deadline for re-employment in non-
scientific/non-technical posts and sixty two years in posts of Chairman and
Members of the Board of Management including the Managing Director and
the Financial Adviser (if the Financial Adviser is a Member of the Board of
Management) of any State Government owned Corporation/Company or
Enterprise or of various Public Sector Undertakings, should not, as a general
rule, be proposed for approval of the appointments Committee of the
Cabinet, unless the Administrative 
Ministry consider that there are
exceptional circumstances which would justify the appointment of a retired
officer. In the case of honorary appointments, e.g. appointment on the Board
of Directors of Public Sector Undertakings, the age limit may be 65 years,
provided the appointment is really honorary and does not carry any
substantial remuneration.
3. Temporary engagement of retired railway employees to handle summer rush
spurt in booking, reservation work or handling of large number of applications
received by Railway Recruitment Boards.
Railway Administrations should in no circumstances engage persons on daily
or honorarium rate basis to handle spurt in passengers or rush of work. If the
circumstances warrant engagement of additional hands inescapably, in the
exigencies of service, Railways may engage retired employees, not above
the age of 60 years, for a period not exceeding three months, after obtaining
approval of the Board, in time.
[Bd's. letter No. E(NG)II/86/RC 3/87 dated 17.11.1986 (RBE 220/86)]
4. Pay to be fixed on re-employment:
The basic order regulating fixation of pay of Pensioners including officers
pensioned off or retired on Contributory P.P. provides that:
i. Re-employed Pensioners shall be allowed to draw pay only in the
prescribed scales of pay for the posts in which they are re-employed.
No protection of scales of pay of the posts held by them prior to
retirement shall be given.

ii. In case where the entire pension and pensionary benefits are not
ignored for pay fixation, the initial pay on re-employment shall be fixed
at the same stage as the last pay drawn before retirement. If there is
no such stage in the re-employed post the pay shall be fixed at the
stage below that pay.
Provided that if the maximum of the pay scale in which a Pensioner is re-
employed is less than the last pay drawn by him before retirement, his initial
pay shall be fixed at the maximum of the scale of pay of the re-employed
post. Similarly, if the minimum of the scale of pay in which a Pensioner is re-
employed is more than the last pay drawn by him before retirement his initial
pay shall be fixed at the minimum of the scale of pay of the re-employed
post.
However, in all these cases, the non-ignorable part of the pension or
pensionary equivalent of CPF/SRPF shall be reduced/adjusted from the pay
so fixed.
Note : In relaxation of these guidelines, it has been decided that the pay of
Chairman. Railway Recruitment Boards shall be

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