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Master Circular No. 47 - Holidays

Master Circular No. 47

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Circular number	Master Circular No. 47
Type	Establishment Master Circular
Topic	staff-establishment
Archive source	pbtvc.in

Summary

Holidays. 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. 47 Holidays The Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) have decided to issue a consolidated Master Circular based on the instructions issued from time to time on the subject of "Holidays" for information and guidance of all concerned: -

2. Definition 'Holiday' means - in relation to any particular office/ industrial establishment, a day on which such office is ordered to be closed by a competent authority for transaction of business, without reserve or qualifications.

2.1. A restricted holiday is not a holiday within the meaning of this definition.

(Ref. Rule 103(23) – Estt. Code Vol.I/1985)

3. Classification of Staff for the purpose of holidays:

Due to the varied nature of their duties and responsibilities, the Railway Servants broadly fall into the following three categories: - i.

Railway Servants in administrative offices doing work of Secretariat nature - popularly referred to as office staff;

This category includes all Railway servants working in the Headquarters, Divisional Offices and other similar office establishments.

ii.

Workshop staff - This category includes all Railway servants working in workshops governed under the Factories Act and other attached establishments such as Stores, Offices, Laboratories, etc. which may or may not be governed by Factories Act.

iii.

Open Line Staff - This category includes all other Railway servants Viz. Running Staff, all staff at Stations, Artisans, Supervisory and Ministerial Staff working in Loco Sheds, C&W Depots, Offices of the PWIs, BRIs, SIs etc.

3.1. Entitlement to Holidays - The entitlement to holidays for the above mentioned three categories of staff is as under:

Closed Holidays Restricted Holidays Total (a) Office Staff 16 2 18 (b) Workshop staff 15 Paid holidays

- 15

- 12 (Ref.

Office Staff :- Board's letter No. E(L)59 HL 1/17 dated

30.12.1959 and E(L)59 HL 1/17 dated 7.1.1960, Workshop Staff :- E. 49 CPC/212 dated 27.12.1949, and Open Line Staff :-E(LR)III/86/HL 1/4 dated 28.12.1988 (RBE 275/1988))

* Effective from 01.01.1989

4. Holidays – Policy for declaration :

For the office staff working in Delhi/New Delhi, list of all the 16 closed holidays in a calendar year will be drawn and declared by the Department of personnel, Government of India.

4.1. In the case of Railways, 16 holidays for the Office Staff, 15 paid holidays in respect of the Workshop Staff and 12 paid holidays in respect of line staff are to be chosen in consultation with the organised labour. However, these holidays will be inclusive of the three National Holidays.

5. National Holidays :

The under mentioned three occasions are treated as National Holidays:

Republic Day on the 26th January;

ii.

Independence day on the 15th August; and iii.

Mahatma Gandhi's birth day on the 2nd October.

These three National holidays are compulsory.

(Ref.

Board's letter No. E/50/HL 1/11 dated

1.12.1950 and E(LR)III/78/HL 1/9 dated 30.10.1978)

6. Monetary Compensation in lieu of Attendance on National Holidays :

It may not be possible to relieve the Railway servants, with some exception, falling in the category of open line staff, to avail of the National Holiday(s) e.g. railway Servants engaged in the movement of trains, train-passing duties, maintenance of essential services, those performing rostered duty hours etc. For attendance on National Holidays, monetary compensation is payable to them at the rates notified from time to time.

6.1 Monetary compensation in lieu of attendance on National holidays will be admissible in the following circumstances also:

When the day of rest of the Railway Servant and the National Holiday fall on the same day;

When the running staff are on 'waiting duty' or on 'Light duties' on a National Holiday and also, who are, after completion of rest including periodic rest on National Holiday, are waiting to be booked on that day;

When the relieving staff travel as passengers on a Natio

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