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Counting of Stay-at-Home period during COVID-19 Lockdown as duty for railway servants undergoing training for the purposes of increments

RBE No.65/2025 · 2025-07-07
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Circular numberRBE No.65/2025
Date2025-07-07
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicgeneral
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Counting of Stay-at-Home period during COVID-19 Lockdown as duty for railway servants undergoing training for the purposes of increments Subject: Counting of Stay-at-Home period during COVID-19 Lockdown as duty for railway

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RBE No.65/2025

भारत ALHTR/GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
रेल HATe/MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(रैलवे 4S/RAILWAY BOARD)

No. E(NG)I-2025/IC-I/1 New Delhi, dated 07.07.2025

The General Managers (P)
All Zonal Railway & Production Units, etc.
(As per standard list)

Subject: Counting of Stay-at-Home period during COVID-19 Lockdown as duty for railway
servants undergoing training for the purposes of increments.
Ref: E(NG)I/90/IC 1/1 dated 04.02.1991 (RBE 25/91)

As the Railways are aware, the training period spent by a railway servant, whether on
remuneration of stipend or otherwise, is to be treated as duty, provided it is followed by
confirmation, for the purposes of increments.

2. One of the Zonal Railways has sought to know whether the period spent at home during nation
wide lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic be reckoned as duty also for the purpose of increments.

3. It is hereby clarified that the Board had already issued instructions vide RBE No. 109/2020 on
releasing of held up payments of stipends to the trainee railway servants for the period they had stayed
at home during the lockdown due to COVID-19, subject to a condition that this period must not exceed
six months.

4. पा view of this, the matter has once again been examined and it has further been decided that as a
one-time measure the stay-at-home period (up to a maximum of six months only) of trainee railway
servants due to nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 may be treated as duty for the purposes of
increments.

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