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· 2005-08-09
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| Date | 2005-08-09 |
|---|---|
| Type | VCRC archived Railway commercial circular / manual |
| Topic | reservation |
| Archive source | vcrc.in |
Summary
rule to the Chief Personnel Officer: Provided further that during the period of emergency such as flood, accident, the power vested in the competent authority can be exercised by an officer not below the rank of senior scale service and the nature of work, the Railway Administration shall fix the normal rostered hours of work
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1 RAILWAY SERVANTS (HOURS OF WORK AND PERIOD OF REST) RULES, 2005 (The earlier rules regulating the hours of work and rest of the Railway servants called "Railway servants (Hours of Employment) Rule 1961 and any orders issued there under in so far as they were inconsistent with revised rules have been repealed and revised rules called "The Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 have been made, which are printed hereunder). MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (Railway Board) New Delhi, the 28th February, 2005 RBE No : 131/2005, No.E(LL)2001/HER/9, New Delhi Dated: 09-08-2005 G.S.R.75,28th February, 2005:- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 136 of the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:- PART-1 1. Short title, commencement and application- (1) These rules maybe called the Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. (3) They shall apply only to those railway servants to whom Chapter XIV of the Act applies. 2. Definitions:- In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) 'Act' means the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989). (b) `full-night' means the period between 10.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m.; (c) 'long-on' means a period of duty over eight hours in the case of 'intensive' workers, over ten hours in the case of 'continuous’ workers and over twelve hours in the case of 'essentially intermittent' workers; (d) 'Ordinary rate of pay' includes- (I) pay as defined in rule 1303 (F.R. 9) of the Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume-11 (1990 Edition) and includes element of running allowance to the extent of 30 per cent of basic pay in the case of running staff as defined in Rule 1507 of the aforesaid Code, (ii) Dearness Allowance, Additional Dearness Allowance and Dearness Pay, if any, and (iii) Compensatory (City) Allowance; (e) "Railway servants employed in confidential capacity" includes- (i) stenographers working either in a separate confidential cell or attached to the officers in Administrative offices, (ii) cypher operators, (iii) confidential Assistants and Personal Assistants, and (iv) any other railway servant who may be so specified by the Head of the Railway Administration to have been employed in confidential capacity; (f) 'Regional Labour Commissioner' means an officer appointed as such by the Government of India in the Ministry of Labour, by notification in the Official Gazette. g) 'Roadside station' means a station other than- (i) an important junction station, (ii) a station with marshalling yard, (iii) an important terminal station, (iv) a station from which trains are ordered as a regular measure, and (v) a station where a separate goods office under a supervisory Goods Clerk, in the grade of Chief Goods Clerk or of higher rank sanctioned on the basis of workload in that Goods Office has been provided : Provided that the Head of the Railway Administration or the authority to whom he may delegate this power, may draw up a list of road-side stations keeping in view the above definition. h) 'roster' means a document which shows the hours that a railway servant expected to be on duty every day, the daily as well as weekly rest and break between spells of duty in a day besides 2 other necessary particulars; (i) 'running staff' means the staff who are defined to be so in Rule 1507 of the Indian Railway Establishment Code, Volume-II (1990 Edition); (j) "section" means a section of the Act; (k) 'short off' means a period of rest which is- (i) in the case of intensive workers :- (A) less than 12 hours in a roster of six hours duty, and (B) less than 14 hours in a mixed roster of 6 and 8 hours duty, (ii) in the case of continuous worker—less than 10 hours, (iii) in the case of essentially intermittent workers - less than 8 hours, (l) 'split duty' means duty in two or more spells with intervening
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