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| Circular number | RBE 112/1989 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1989-05-01 |
| Type | Rates Master Circular |
| Topic | ticket-checking |
para; iii. The advance is admissible only to those non-Gazetted Railway servants, whose property moveable or immovable has been substantially affected or damaged due to natural calamity; iv The advance will not be in addition to the advance of pay admissible
To Change the colour of the Background Click on the Button Below. Antique white Bisque silver slate green cadet blue white azure Original MASTER CIRCULAR Master Circular No. 39 Master Circular on Advances and Their Recovery The instructions issued by the Railway Board from time to time on the subject of Advances and their recovery, are contained in several letters. The Railway Board have now decided to consolidate the instructions on the subject, except the instructions relating to grant of advance for house building/ purchase of ready- built house/ flat or for re-payment of loan taken for the purpose, into a master circular, as below, for the information and guidance of all concerned. 2. General: Advance is a recoverable sum paid to a Railway servant from i. The amount standing to his credit in the State Railway Provident Fund; and/or ii. The Government funds i.e. Consolidated Fund of India, at the discretion of the sanctioning authority for certain specified requirements and subject to the fulfilment of the conditions prescribed therefor. 2.1 Advance paid are of two kinds viz., interest free and interest-bearing advances. 2.2 While the advances paid out of the State Railway Provident Fund are totally interest free, some of the advances paid from the Government funds bear interest. 2.3 For purposes of grant of advance, temporary Railway servants with a continuous service of three years or more are to be treated as permanent. Probationers should be deemed to be temporary Railway servants. (Ref: Para 1001-Indian Railway administration and Finance). A. Advances from State Railway Provident Fund: 3. Authority competent to sanction advance The authority competent to sanction an advance from the S.R.P.F. is the controlling officer, but the powers may be exercised by the following: - a. CPO in the case of Gazetted officers upto the Junior Administrative Grade; b. A Divisional officer, including a Group 'A' or Group 'B' officer in independent charge of an office, in respect of Group 'C' Railway Servants employed under him; and Note : Powers of Controlling officer to sanction advances/final withdrawal to Group 'C' Railway servants may be exercised by Group 'B' officers for sanctioning advances/ withdrawals from S.R.P.F. in the case of Railway servants in scales below Rs. 1400 -2300 (RPS). [Ref: Board's letter No. F(E)III/84 PF 1/4 dated 1.5.1989 (RBE 112/1989)] c. An APO or an officer of equivalent rank in the case of Group 'D' Railway servants. 4. Conditions governing grant of advance: An advance may be granted to Railway servant for the purposes mentioned, in para 5 below from the amount standing to his credit in the State Railway Provident Fund at the discretion of the competent authority mentioned in para 3 above, subject to the following conditions i. The Railway servant applying for the advance should satisfy the authority of the necessity for the advance; ii. The advance applied for should not in any case exceed the amount of subscription together with interest thereon, at the credit of the Railway servant at the time of grant of advance; iii. Advance on more than one account should not be sanctioned simultaneously; iv. A new advance should not be granted until at least fifty percent of the last advance, if any taken, has been repaid; and v. It should be ensured that the advance sanctioned is such that after making all permissible deductions, the net amount payable is not less than fifty percent of his basic pay. 4.1 The authority sanctioning the advance should record in writing its reasons for granting the advance. If the reasons to be recorded are of a confidential nature, the same may be communicated by the sanctioning authority to the Accounts Officer personally and/or confidentially. (Ref: Rule 923 - R.I. 1985) 5. Purposes for which advance is payable: An advance may be granted for the following purposes: - i. To pay for the Railway servants passage while proceeding on leave out of the country on med
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