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Emoluments/Average Emoluments for Pensionary Benefits-reg Average emoluments shall be determined with reference to the emoluments drawn by a

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भारत सरकार (Government of India)

रेल मंत्रालय (Ministry of Railways) (रेलवे बोर्ड/ Railway Board)

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मास्टर परिपत्र सं. 55 - (अक्टूबर, 2019 में अपडेटेड)

Master Circular No. 55 - (Updated in October, 2019)

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Emoluments/Average Emoluments for Pensionary Benefits.

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MC No. 55 (2019) RBE No. /£9 /2019

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA) (RAILWAY BOARD)

No. 2019/F(E)IN/7/2 New Delhi, Dated :/4.10.2019

The GMs/Principal Financial Advisers, All Zonal Railways/Production Units etc., (As per mailing tist) Sub: Emoluments/Average Emoluments for Pensionary Benefits-reg.

HREKKEEK

Master Circular No. 55 on the concept of “Emoluments/Average Emoluments for Pensionary Benefits” was last brought out and circulated vide Board's letter No.

F(E)UI/Master Circular-3 (Emoluments) dated 18.04.1994. Railway Board have now decided to issue a consolidated Revised Master Circular on the subject for the

information and guidance of all concerned.

2. While referring to this circular, the origina! letters referred to herein should be read for a proper appreciation. This circular is only a consolidation of the instructions issued so far and should not be treated as a substitution to the originals. In case of

doubt, the original circular should be relied upon as authority.

3. The instructions contained in the original circulars referred to above, have only prospective effect from the date of issue unless specifically indicated otherwise in the concerned circular. For dealing with old cases, the instructions in force at the relevant time should be referred to; and

4. If any circular on the subject, which has not been superseded, has not been taken into consideration while preparing this consolidated letter, the said circular, which has been missed through oversight, should be treated as valid and operative. Such, a

missing circular, if any, may be brought to the notice of the Railway Board.

EMOLUMENTS/AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS

1. Emoluments: - The expression —

(a) “emoluments”, for the purpose of calculating various retirement and death

<् benefits, means the basic pay as defined in clause (i) of rule 1303 of the Code

which a railway servant was receiving immediately before his retirement or on the

date of his death:

Provided that the stagnation increment shall be treated as emolument for

calculation of retirement benefits:

(b) ‘pay’ in these rules means the pay in the revised scales under the Railway

Services (revised pay) Rules, 2016;

Provided that ‘pay element’ of Running Staff shall also include fifty-five per

centum of the basic pay for reckoning emoluments.

Note 1:

If a railway servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had been absent from duty on leave for which leave salary is payable or having been suspended had been reinstated without forfeiture of service, the emoluments which he would have drawn had he not been absent from duty or suspended shall be the

emoluments for the purposes of this rule:

Provided that any increase in pay (other than the increment referred to in Note 4)

which is not actually drawn shall not form part of his emoluments.

Note 2.:

Where a railway servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had proceeded on leave for which leave salary is payable after having held a higher appointment. Whether in an officiating or temporary capacity, the benefit of emoluments drawn in such higher appointment shall be given only if it is certified that the railway servant would have continued to hold the higher

appointment but for his proceeding on leave.

lf a railway servant immediately before his retirement or death while in service had been absent from duty on extraordinary leave, or had been under suspension, the period whereof does not count as

service, the emoluments which he drew immediately before

Note 4:

proceeding on such leave or being placed under 

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