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Master Circular No. 11 - Grant of Honorarium
Master Circular No. 11
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| Circular number | Master Circular No. 11 |
|---|---|
| Type | Establishment Master Circular |
| Topic | staff-establishment |
| Archive source | pbtvc.in |
Summary
Grant of Honorarium. Master Circular compilation sourced from the PBTVC Personnel website; check subsequent Railway Board amendments before use.
Text of the circular
MASTER CIRCULAR Master Circular No. 11 Grant of Honorarium. At present the instructions/orders relating to the grant of Honorarium to Railway servants are contained in a number of letters issued by the Railway Board from time to time. The Railway Board have now decided to issue a consolidated Circular, as below incorporating all the instructions issued so far on the subject, for the information and guidance of all concerned: 2. General: Honorarium is remuneration, either granted to a Railway servant or permitted to be drawn by him from the revenues of the Government, for performing a work, which is occasional and intermittent in character and is also laborious or of special merit as to justify the remuneration. The work for which honorarium is paid should be undertaken with the prior approval of the authority competent to sanction the grant or acceptance of honorarium and the amount should be settled in advance. The sanctioning authority should record the reasons, which, in his opinion, justify the grant of honorarium and also record a certificate that due regard has been paid to the general principle enunciated in Rule 237-RI. [Ref: Rule 1334(C) – RII] No honorarium will be admissible for temporary increases in work, forming a part of the legitimate duties of a Railway servant. Also honorarium is not payable for conducting oral tests and trade tests at the end of initial training and refresher course in offices or Railway Training Schools. No portion of the honorarium received by a Railway servant is required to be credited to the Railway Revenues. [Ref: Board's letter No. E(G)64 HOI-9 dated 11.11.1964] 3. Limit: Honorarium may be recurring or non-recurring. A Railway servant may draw honorarium up to Rs. 5,000 per year. If the payment is recurring, all payments of honorarium made up to the end of a financial year should be taken into account for purposes of computing the ceiling limit. 4. Powers to the grant of Honorarium: The General Manager can sanction payment of honorarium to acceptance of honorarium by a non-gazetted Railway servant up to maximum of Rs. 5,000 per year, except in the following: In the regard to arbitration work undertaken by Gazetted Railway servants, he can sanction up to Rs. 2,000 (Rupees two thousand only) in a year where the Railway Administration is a party and up to Rs. 1,000 (Rupees one thousand only) in a year in all other types of cases; [Ref: Board's letter No. F(X)II-86/PW/6 dated 25/01/1988] If the payment is recurring, the limit of Rs, 5,000 mentioned above, will apply to the total of the recurring payments made/ earned in a financial year. [Ref: Board's letter No. F(E)II/80/HO/1 dated 01/03/1984] Proposals involving grant of honorarium in excess of the above-mentioned limits should be referred to the Railway Board in the proforma prescribed for the purpose in Railway Board's letter No. E(G)80 HOI-30 dated 02/09/1981. 5. Rate(s) of Honorarium in various cases fixed by the Railway Board: While the General Managers are competent to sanction in accordance with the powers delegated to them, payment of honorarium to the non-Gazetted Railway servants for occasional or intermittent items of work, the Railway Board have prescribed the rates of honorarium in respect of the cases mentioned below: (i) Group 'D' employee performing duties of Gestetner Operator - Work Rate (i) Group 'D' employee performing duties of Gestetner Operator during the absence of regular incumbent on casual or regular leave for short periods when officiating arrangement is not possible or considered necessary or where a post of Gestetner Operator does not exist. Rupee one per day if the employee works as Gestetner Operator for half-a-day or more in addition to his other work. [Ref.: Board's letter No. E(G)89 HOI-2 dated 28/04/1989 (RBE 113/1989)]. (ii) Group 'D' employee appointed as Despatch Rider/Scooter Driver/Car Driver for short periods in the absence of regular Despatch Rider/ Scooter Driver/Staff C
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