GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
Railway Board

RBE No. 86/2019

S.No.PC-VII/138
No.PC-V/2016/MACPS/1

New Delhi, dated 28-5-2019

The General Managers (P)
All Zonal Railways & PUs
(As per mailing list)

Sub:- Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS) for the Railways Employees-Benchmark Regarding.

Subsequent to acceptance of the recommendations of 7th CPC by the Government regarding raising the benchmark for performance appraisal for promotion and financial upgradation under MACPS from “Good” to “Very Good”, Railway Board vide letter dated 19-12-2016 enhanced the benchmark for grant of financial upgradation MACPS to “Very Good” for all posts. These changes were made effective from 25th July, 2016 i.e. from the date of resolution notified by Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance regarding acceptance of the recommendations of 7th CPC.

On the demand raised by the Staff Side persistently in all forums including in the National Council (JCM) for revision of enhanced benchmark on prospective basis, the matter has been considered by the Board and it has been decided that APAR grading “Good” for the period prior to 25-7-2016 i.e. the date from which the new Benchmark was made applicable, may be treated as “Very Good” while considering those cases of MACPS in which APARs for the said period are required to be taken into account.

This issues with the Concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

Hindi version will follow.

(Subhankar Dutta)
Deputy Director, Pay Commission-V
Railway Board

Source: NFIR

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 174

ANSWERED ON: 16.11.2016

Incentives to High Performing Employees

T. RADHAKRISHNAN
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Indian Railways proposes to offer incentives to high performing employees;

(b) if so, the aims and objectives of the said proposal along with the criteria/ modalities fixed by the Government in this regard;

(c) the measures taken by the Government to avoid discrimination while incentives are given to the best eligible employees;

(d) the time by which the decision is likely to be taken in this regard; and

(e) the other steps taken to improve efficiency and motivation level of the Railway employees?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)

(a) There is no such proposal at present.

(b) to (d): Do not arise.

(e)  There is a system to prepare Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APAR), wherein the employees are evaluated and such evaluation is used while deciding promotions etc. Further, to improve efficiency and motivation levels, Productivity Linked Bonus is also given to non-gazetted Railway Employees excluding RPF/RPSF personnel who instead are given ad-hoc bonus.
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NFIR
National Federation of Indian Railwaymen

No.I/5(C)/Pt.I

Dated: 04/11/2016

The Secretary (E),
Railway Board,
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Sub : Admissibility of House Rent Allowance in the event of non-acceptance or surrender of railway residential accommodation – reg.

Ref.: (i) NFIR’s PNM item No.40/2012
(ii) NFIR’s letter No. 1/5(c )/Part I dated 22/02/2016, 25/04/2016 & 01/08/2016
(iii) Railway Board’s Letter No.E(P&A)-II/2012/FE2/4 dated 31/10/2016.

With reference to reply received vide Board’s letter dated 31/10/2016, the Federation desires to convey as follows :

(a) NFIR vide agenda item No.40/2012- last para, had demanded that condition mentioned in para 3 in Railway Board’s letter No.E(P&A)II-99/HRA-2 dated 16.03/2000 should be waived off or withdrawn.

(b) Federation also demanded that provision as mentioned in para 2 of the agenda item be made applicable to all categories of railway employees whether they belong to “Essential” or “other than Essential” categories.

It seems, the Railway Board have not examined the above issues with positive mind, taking ground reality into account with regard to availability of railway residential quarters, their condition for human occupation or otherwise. Due to total failure in maintenance of existing railway quarters on Zonal Railways, many quarters became totally outdated, unfit for occupation and overdue for demolition.

The main problem is that when the employee has vacated the quarters, he is denied HRA till the said quarter is physically occupied by another employee. This needs to be addressed.

Yours faithfully,
sd/-
(Dr. M.Raghavaiah)
General Secretary

Source: NFIR

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New Delhi: Railways has undertaken an exercise to rationalize the number of employees working in the state transporter and shortlisted four human resource audit companies for the task.

An HR audit company would be identified and entrusted with the task of studying the entire gazetted staff strength, said Railway Board Member (Staff) Pradeep Kumar here today.

Four companies shortlisted for this purpose are Earnst and Young, Deloitte, Price cooper waterhouse and KPMG.

The HR company will examine the Railways’ manpower given the technological development/changes in operational and maintenance practices and determine the optimal level of the staff strength in the coming years, Kumar said.

Currently railways employees 13.36 lakh gazetted and non-gazetted workers.

“We will also hire a reputed consultant to examine the strength in non-gazetted section to study the system and requirement and see if there is any extra flab,” he said.

The Railways will also take into account the international benchmarks before deciding on the issue, the Member (Staff) said.

On the Debroy Committee’s recommendation that railways should not involve in other activities such as running schools, hospitals and RPF, Kumar said “The committee has just given its report and we have to examine it.”

However, he added “there has to be a system to keep railways and its employees in good health. Eventually, to run the Railway system there has to be some agencies to do the job.”

Railways has also taken steps to conduct all examinations online as a fool-proof measures against malpractices.

He said as a major IT initiative, online applications were introduced in two recent exams for the posts of Senior Section Engineers and Junior Engineers (SSEs/JEs) and Para-Medical categories respectively to bring transparency and certainty into recruitment process.

As per the new system, the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) candidates can keep the question booklets. A pilot project of uploading of answer keys and cut-off marks was initiated in 2014-15, he said.

In the railway recruitment drive during 2014-15, examinations were conducted for 48,822 vacancies in 284 categories.
PTI

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