Railway opportunity to opt date of next increment for next three months

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

PC-VII No. 208

RBE No: 84/2023

File No. PC-VIT/2017/R-I/7

New Delhi, dated: 13.07.2023

The General Manager/CAOs(R),
All India Railways & Production Units,
(As per standard mailing list)

Sub: Date of Next Increment under Rule 10 of Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 — Clarification — regarding.

Please refer to Board’s letter No. PC-VII/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 (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 for the adoption of the same in Railways with respect to Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016. In para ‘7’ of the said O.M. dated 28.11.2019, the employees who have been regularly promoted or granted financial up-gradation on or after 01.01.2016 and desire to exercise / re-exercise option for pay fixation under FR 22(I)(a)(1) were given an opportunity to exercise or re-exercise of their option for pay fixation within one month of the date of issue of the said O.M. dated 28.11.2019.

2. Thereafter, another opportunity to exercise / re-exercise the option for pay fixation, as allowed under O.M. dated 28.11.2019, was provided for a period of 3 months vide Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure’s O.M. No. 04-21/2017-IC/E.IIA dated 15.04.2021 which was adopted in Ministry of Railways vide letter RBE No. 35/201 (F. No. PC-VII/2017/R-I/7) dated 24.05.2021.

3. Now, Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure vide their O.M. No. 04-21/2017-IC/E.III.A dated 04.07.2023 (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. Ministry of Finance also clarified that all other conditions of O.M. dated 28.11.2019 remains unchanged.

4. The aforesaid O.M. dated 04.07.2023 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 4 of aforesaid O.M. dated 04.07.2023 of Ministry of Finance/Department of Expenditure shall be ‘three months’ from the date of issue of these instructions.

6. Hindi version will follow.

Encl.: As above

(Sundeep Pal)
Executive Director, Pay Commission
Railway Board