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| Type | Rates Master Circular |
|---|---|
| Topic | ticket-checking |
If the penalty of reduction to a lower grade is for a specified period and the
MASTER CIRCULAR Master Circular No. 66 Master Circular on Penalities and Disciplinary Authorities. PENALTIES AND DISCIPLINARY AUTHORITIES Disciplinary action against Railway Servants is governed by Railway Servants (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1968. Part III of these Rules contains Rules 6, 7 and 8, which pertain to penalties and disciplinary authorities. 2. The penalties specified in Rule 6 can be imposed on a Railway Servant, for good and sufficient reasons, after following the due procedure which has been prescribed in Part IV of the Rules. The Penalties are classified into two categories - Minor and Major. There are six minor penalties and five major penalties, as listed below: — Minor Penalties: (i) Censure; (ii) Withholding of promotion for a specified period; (iii) Recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Government or Railway Administration by negligence or breach of orders; (iii-a) Withholding of the Privilege Passes or Privilege Ticket Orders or both; (iii-b) Reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a period not exceeding three years, without cumulative effect and not adversely affecting his pension. (iv) Withholding of increments of pay for a specified period with further directions as to whether on the expiry of such period, this will or will not have the effect of postponing the future increments of pay. Major Penalties: (v) Save as provided for in clause (iii-b), reduction to a lower stage in the time-scale of pay for a specified period, with further directions as to whether on the expiry of such period, the reduction will or will not have the effect of postponing the future increments of his pay; (vi) Reduction to a lower lime scale of pay, grade, post or service, with or without further directions regarding conditions of restoration to the grade or post or service from which the Railway servant was reduced and his seniority and pay on such restoration to that grade, post or service; (vii) Compulsory retirement: (viii) Removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment under the government or Railway Administration; (ix) Dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under the Government or Railway Administration. 3. The penalty in Rule (iii-b) viz. Reduction of pay to a lower stage in the same time scale of pay for a period not exceeding three years, without cumulative effect and not adversely affecting the pension was carved out of the major penalty in Rule 6 (v) of reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay and placed among minor penalties after the penalty of withholding of Passes/PTOs. The three conditions specified in Rule 6 (iii-b) viz. the period of the penalty should not exceed three years, the penalty should be without cumulative effect and the penalty should not adversely affect the pension of the Railway Servant have been borrowed from the provisions relating to imposition of the penalty of withholding of increment under Rule 11 (2). Rule 11(2) provides that notwithstanding the fact that withholding of increments is a minor penalty, an inquiry has to be held under Rule 9 which has been prescribed for major penalties, if the penalty of withholding of increments is for a period exceeding three years or is with cumulative effect or adversely affects the pensionary benefits. Hence, all the three conditions specified in Rule 6 (iii-b) have to be fulfilled for the penalty of reduction of pay to a lower stage to be a minor penalty. [Rule 6 (iii-b) was introduced under Board's Notification No. E(D&A)90 RG 6-112 dated 16.11.1990 (RBE 204/1990)] 4. Disciplinary action can be taken against an employee in respect of misconduct committed before his employment if the misconduct is of such a nature as has rational connection with his present employment and renders him unfit and un
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