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Posting of Husband and Wife at the same place - Instructions in respect of Non-gazetted Railway employees posting at the place of posting of the railway servant is received, the

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RBE No. 63/2026

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

No. E(NG)I-2009/TR/29 (E-3079813) New Delhi, dated 05-08-2026

The General Managers (P) All Indian Railways and Production units.

(As per standard list).

Sub:- Posting of Husband and Wife at the same place - Instructions in respect of Non-gazetted Railway employees.

The extant instructions regarding posting of husband and wife at the same station in respect of Non-gazetted Railway employees are contained in the Ministry of Railways letter No. E(NG)Il/71/TR/14 dated 01.10.71, No.

E(NG)I-86/TR/14 dated 06.01.1988 and No. E(NG)I-96/TR/28 dated

6.12.95. The instructions regarding posting of husband and wife were modified & circulated to Railways vide this Ministry’s letter No.

E(NG)I/97/TR/28 dated 05.11.1997 and letter of even number dated

02.02.2010, consequent upon acceptance of recommendations of 5% & 6% CPC respectively. However, it has been brought to the notice of this office that there is some confusion about certain provisions of the instructions and applicability of the same in various situations. Accordingly, the matter has been considered by this Ministry and consolidated instructions for posting of husband and wife working in non-gazetted cadres in Railways are being issued in supersession of Railways Board’s letters dated 02.02.2010, ibid. |

2. In the context of the need to make concerted efforts to increase representation of women in Central Government jobs, the Government vide DoP&T’s O. M. No.28034/9/2009-Estt(A) dated 30.09.2009 has decided that where both spouses are in the same Central Service or working in the same department, and if posts at an appropriate level are available, they may mandatorily be posted at the same station, provided that no administrative problems are expected to arise as a consequence.

3. Further, on the basis of the 6t CPC Recommendations, Government Servants have already been allowed the facility of Child Care Leave which is admissible till the children attain 18 years of age. On similar lines, provisions of Railway Board’s letter dated 05.11.1997 have been amended and the consolidated guidelines will now be as under:

(i) where both the spouses are railway employees and belong to the same seniority unit:

The husband and wife, if working in the same department and if the required level of post is available, should invariably be posted together, ensuring that one of them does not work as subordinate to the other, in

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order to enable them to lead a normal family life and look after the welfare of their children especially till the children attain 18 years of age.

(ii) where both the spouses are railway servants but belong to different seniority units

Efforts may be made to post both the railway servants at the station where posts at appropriate level exist in the respective seniority units failing which requests for change of the category may be considered sympathetically, keeping in view all other relevant rules in the matter.

(iii) where one of the spouses is a railway servant and the other is a railway servant and the other belongs to All India Service or another central Service.

The Railway servant should be posted at station/place in the Railway/Division/PU in whose territorial jurisdiction the place/state of posting of his/her spouse falls, or as close to it as possible if there is no Railway organisation/post at the place/state of posting of the spouse.

(iv) where one of the spouses is a railway servant and the other where one of the spouses is a railway servant and the other

belongs to a state service:

The Railway servant should be posted at the station/place in the Railway/Division/PU in whose territorial jurisdiction the place/state of posting of his/her spouse falls. If it is not possible, if a request from the railway servant to the controlling Authority of the spouse for his/her posting at the place of posting of the railway servant is

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