Rule 10 of Railway Services Rules-2016. Option for Date of next increment.
Date of next increment under Rule 10 of Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016- one more opportunity to exercise option: RBE No. 35/2021
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)
(Railway Board)
| PC-VII No. 169 File No. PC-VIT/2017/R-I/7 | RBE No. 35/2021 New Delhi, dated: 24/05/2021 |
The General Manager/CAOs(R),
All Indian Railways & Production Units,
(As per standard mailing list)
Sub: Date of next increment under Rule 10 of Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 – regarding.
Please refer to Board’s letter No. PC-VIJ/2017/R-I/7 dated 18.12.2019 (RBE No. 212/2019) forwarding therewith Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure’s O.M. No. 4-21/2017-IC/E.IIIA dated 28.11.2019 inter-alia providing clarification on Date of Next Increment under Rule 10 of Central Civil Services (Revise Pay) Rules-2016 for adoption of the same in Railways with respect to Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules-2016.
2. Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure vide para 7 of their O.M. dated 28.11.2019 also approved that the employees who have been regularly promoted or granted financial upgradation on or after 01.01.2016 and desire to exercise/re-exercise option for pay fixation under FR22(I)(a)(1) shall be given an opportunity to exercise or re-exercise option there under and such an option shall be exercised within one month of issue of their O.M.
3. Now, Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure vide their another O.M. No. 04-21/2017-IC/E.IN[A dated 15.04.2021 (copy enclosed) partially modified para 7 of their O.M. dated 28.11.2019 and approved for allowing another opportunity to Government employees to exercise/re-exercise option for pay fixation as allowed under their O.M. dated 28.11.2019.
4. The aforesaid O.M. dated 15.04.2021 of Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure shall be applicable mutatis mutandis in Railways too with respect to Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016.
5. The “three months’ period mentioned in para 2 of aforesaid O.M. dated 15.04.2021 of Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure shall be three months from the date of issue of these instructions.
Encl.: As above
(Jaya Kumar G)
Dy. Director/Pay Commission-VII & HRMS
Railway Board
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