Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 – Revision of option exercised under Rule 6 of Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008

Government of  India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)

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S.No.PC-VI/216
No.PC-VI/2010/I/RSRP/5

RBE No.102/2010
New Delhi, dated 22.07.2010 

The GMs/CAOs(R),
All Indian Railways & Production Units
(As per mailing list) 

Subject: Railway Services  (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 – Revision of option exercised under Rule 6 of  Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008.

          In accordance with the provisions  contained in Rule 11 of the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008,  where a Railway servant opts to continue to draw his pay in the existing  scale from the 1st day of January 2006 and switch over to the revised scale  from a date later than the 1st day of January, 2006, his pay from the later  date in the revised scale is required to be fixed under Rule 11(i) of the  Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008. As per Rule 5 of these Rules,  this option to switch over to the revised pay structure from a date later  than 1.1 2006 is available to a Railway Servant

•  (i) who elects to continue to draw pay
  in the existing scale until the date on which he earns his next or any
  subsequent increment in the existing scale or until he vacates his post
  or ceases to draw pay in that scale.
  
   
  
• (ii) who has been placed in a higher
  pay scale between 1.1.2006 and the date of notification of these Rules
  on account of promotion, upgradation of pay scale etc,
  the Railway servant may elect to
  switch over to the revised pay structure from the date of such
  promotion, upgradation etc.

2. As per Rule 6(1) of Railway Services  (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 the option in the format appended to the Second  Schedule was required to be exercised within three months from the date of  issue of these Rules,

3. Further Rule 6(4) provided that the  option once exercised shall be final. The Staff Side has represented on this  issue and have requested that the first option exercised may not be treated  as final keeping in view the new system of pay band and grade pays and those  employees may be allowed to revise their option if the option is more  beneficial to them.

4.On further consideration and in exercise  of the powers available under Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008,  the President is pleased to decide that in relaxation of stipulation under  Rule 6(4) of these Rules employees may be permitted to revise their initial  option upto 31 12.2010 if the option is more beneficial to them. The revised  option shall be intimated to the Head of his Office by the Railway servant
in accordance with the provision of Rule 6(2) of the Revised Pay Rules,  2008.

5. This issues with the concurrence of the  Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways

(Hari Krishan)
Director, Pay Commission II
Railway Board.

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