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Principles and procedure for determining inter seniority of members of Gr. 'A' services on the Railways.

· 1987-07-08
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File numberE(O)III-82 PM6/136
Date1987-07-08
TypeRailway Board Establishment Circular / Letter
Topicstaff-establishment
DirectorateEstablishment
Official sourceindianrailways.gov.in

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Frinciples and procedure for determining inter-se seniority of members of Group ‘A’ services on the Railways the princivles and procedure for determining inter-se

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA(BIARAT SAREAR) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS(RAIL MANTRALAYA) RATLWAY BOARD

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No.E(O0)ILII-82 PMG6/136 New Delhi, Dt. 8-~7~1987

The General Managers, All Indian Railways, CLW, DLW, ICT, v&AP/Bengalore, Metro Railway/Caleutta and N.I. Rly (Const).

The Principal, RSC/Vadodara The Director General, RDSO/Lucknow.

- The Directors, IRINGE/Jamalpur, IRISET/Secunderabad, IRICBN/Pune.

“OSD/RCOF, Kapurthale, BMC Chowk, Mahay Market, Jalandhar City.

The CAO(R)s, DCi/Patiala, COFMOW/New Delhi & MIP(R) /Bombay, CAO(Const)/SE Railway, ‘ialtair.

fhe CPA/COOIS, Delhi-Safdarjang Station, Chankyapuri, N,Delhi.

The Addl.General Nenager, RE/Allahabad,

subject: Frinciples and procedure for determining inter-se seniority of members of Group ‘A’ services on the Railways.

The Ministry of Railways (Reilway Soard) have had under consideration the question of laying, cown clearly the princivles and procedure for determining inter-se seniority of Members of Railway Gronp 'éA' Services uncer the Ministry of Railways. They have accordingly decided that the principles and procedure, details of which ave given in the Annexure to this letter, snould normally be followed for determining inter-se seniority of nemburs of Group 'A' Services of the Railways.

Ze The aforesaid procedure of determining inter-se seniority has the approval of President.

De 411 questions of doubt regarding the interpretation

or the procedure shall be decided by the Liinistry of Railways.

he & copy of this letter may be circulate? amongst the members of the various Group 'A' Railway Services.

Be Hindi version will follow. व,

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( 8.]1i, Vaish ) Eucl: snnexure secretary, Railway Board

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Note:

AY NEXURE

Principles and procedure for determining inter-se seniority of members of Group 'A' Services on the Railways.

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The officers belonging to any examination batch would. initially be junior to the officers of the same Service belonging to an earlier examination batch,

Within. the same batch, the inter-se seniority would initially be in order of merit in.the batch as existing on completion of the period of probation.

‘Between members of any two Group _'A' Services.

The inter-se seniority as between members of any two Group A Services would be determined by the Date for Increment in Time-Scale (DITS) except that--

2.1.1

21.2

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In case any officer joins service earlier than his senior in the same fervice in the same batch, he will take a notional DITS which will be the same as that of his senior.

In case any officer is superseded on grounds of suitability by any

officer of his own Service, he will, for the purpose of composite inter-se seniority, take a place just below that of his erstwhile junior who has superseded him.

In case an officer gets a General Manager's post open to more than one discipline later than an officer of another Service on grounds of suitability, he will take his seniority below that officer

The Date for Increment in Time Scale would be the same as the Date of Joining Service in case of direct recruits to Group A Servicesand for

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contd,

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others it would be the Date for Increment in Time Scale in Group A Service as determined as per rules/orders laid down from time to time,

Paras 2.1.1 & 2,1.2 above are necessary to avoid the conundrum of 'A' igs senior to 'B', 'B' is senior to 'C' but 'C' is senior to PANS E

Paras 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 above are

sunject to any specific orders restoring the seniority subsequently passed by the competent authority while considering an appeal or at the time of subsequent empanelments.

Current seniority

Irrespective of the provisions of paras

1.0 & 2,0 above, which relate to the

basic inter-se'seniority of officers in the context of-further promotion to higher posts, any officer holding a position in

a grade higher than that held by any other officer would have, at that given time, a current s

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