Fixation of Pay

Indian Railways Establishment Code Vol I

• The post of a Railway Staff on medical decategorization should not be dispensed with or reduced in rank, but to be shifted to some other post with same pay scale and service benefits.
• Medically decategorized Railway staff shall cease to perform duties of the post held. If the employee cannot be adjusted against or absorbed in suitable alternate post immediately, he may be kept on a special supernumerary post in his own regular grade pending suitable alternate employment.

• When a senior employee draws lesser pay than his junior promoted after him his pay maybe stepped up to the extent of pay of his junior from the date of promotion of junior subject to following conditions.

1. Junior and Senior belongs to the same cadre and promotion posts are identical and in the same cadre.
2. Scales of pay of lower and higher posts are identical.
3. Anomaly is a direct result of application of rules.
4. Junior was not drawing more pay than Senior in the lower post.

• On promotion an employee will get one increment equal to three per cent of his basic pay (Pay in the pay band + Grade pay).
• The increment amount will be added to the existing pay in the pay band. The Grade pay corresponding to the promotion post will be added to the pay in the pay band.
• Fixation of pay on promotion under CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008, an employee has been promoted or upgraded to higher grade pay (MACP) have to submit an option form within one month. 

Fixation  of Pay for fresh recruits

Entry pay in the revised pay structure for fresh recruits will be fixed as follows depending on the grade pay of the post.