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Master Circular No. 16 - Appointment on compassionate grounds
Master Circular No. 16
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| Circular number | Master Circular No. 16 |
|---|---|
| Type | Establishment Master Circular |
| Topic | staff-establishment |
| Archive source | pbtvc.in |
Summary
Appointment on compassionate grounds. 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. 16 Appointment on compassionate grounds - Master Circular II. III. Persons eligible to be appointed on compassionate grounds IV. V. Time limit for making compassionate appointments VI. Qualification and conditions to be fulfilled. VII. Grades in which appointments can be made on compassionate grounds VIII. Procedure to be followed before making compassionate appointments IX. Authority competent to make appointments on compassionate grounds X. Priorities to be observed in making appointments on compassionate grounds XI. Compassionate appointments of the ward/widow of casual labour XII. XIII. Relaxation: XIV. General LIST OF CIRCULARS FROM WHICH CONSOLIDATION HAS BEEN MADE At present, the orders relating to appointment on compassionate grounds are scattered in a number of office circulars/orders issued from time to time. The question of consolidation of these existing Orders/Circulars into one Master Circular has been under the consideration of the Ministry of Railways, Railway Board. They have now decided to issue a consolidated order on the subject of appointments on compassionate grounds as below for the information and guidance of all concerned. I. CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH COMPASSIONATE APPOINTMENTS MAY BE MADE: Appointments on compassionate grounds relate to the appointments made of dependents of Railway servants who lose their lives in the course of duty or die in harness otherwise while in service or are medically incapacitated/decategorised. The circumstances in which appointments on compassionate grounds may be made are as below: i. When Railway servants lose their lives in the course of duty or get so crippled that they cannot do any work (this also in the course of duty, for example, loco and traffic running staff in charge of trains involved in accidents), ii. When Railway employees die in harness while in service, before retirement. iii. When an employee's whereabouts are not known for a period of seven years and the settlement dues of the employees are or are not paid to the family on this account. This limit of seven years may be relaxed to three years on the merits of each case with the approval of the General Manager, subject to the condition that the services of the person appointed on compassionate grounds would be terminated in case the missing employee is traced subsequently. Compassionate appointments in such cases may be delinked from the payment of settlement dues. In other words, compassionate appointments in such cases may not be denied or deferred only on the ground that settlement dues of missing employees are still to be paid to the person entitled to receive them. [No. E(NG)II/81/RC-1/251 dated 6.2.1982. & 24.5.1982. and No. E(NG)II/81/RC-1/251 dated 27.12.1983.] iv. When Railway employees become crippled while in service or develop serious ailments like heart disease, cancer, etc. or otherwise medically decategorised for the job they are holding and no alternative job of the same emoluments can be offered to them. v. Where, on being medically decategorised, a Railway employee is offered alternative employment on the same emoluments, but chooses to retire and requests for compassionate appointment, provided that if he has less than three years of service at the time of decategorisation, personal approval of the General Manager is to be obtained before the compassionate appointment is made. vi. For appointment of handicapped wards of railway employees on compassionate grounds, registration with special employment exchanges is not necessary and if the candidate claims physical handicap, this may be verified/established based on the general criteria circulated vide Annexure to Board's letter No. E(NG)III/77/RC-1/54 dated 08.01.1978 through competent Medical Officers. [No. E (NG) II/82/RC-1/48 dated 19.10.1982] vii. In the case of a railway servant who is medically incapacitated or decategorised and retires from service and if compassionate ap
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