Welfare Measures

Industrial relations in railways

Budget Speech 2012-13

I assign highest importance to continuance of healthy and harmonious tradition of industrial relations across length and breadth of Indian Railways. In recognition of the commitment of the employees to the organisation and their contribution to increasing the productivity, Indian Railways paid the Productivity Linked Bonus equivalent to wages of 78 days for 2010-11.

Industrial Harmony

Grievance Redressal machinery - Representations from Railway servants on service matters.

  • When Railway servant wish to seek redress of a grievance, he has to address the matter to his immediate official superior or the Head of his office or such other authority at the lowest level who is  competent to deal with the matter.
  • An appeal or representation to a higher authority must not be made unless the appropriate lower authority has already rejected the claim or refused relief or ignored or unduly delayed the disposal of the case.

Special Allowance to Gatekeepers of difficult Railway Engineering Level Crossings

  • Gangmen who are posted as Gatekeeper to man those gates who are classified as ‘difficult gates’ would be entitled to Special Allowance of Rs.300/- per month.(w.e.f 1.9.2008)
  • Identification of the difficult gates will be undertaken in a very judicious manner by the Divisional Engineer(DEN) in consultation with the Associate Finance and for this purpose a fresh review of all the Civil Engineering level crossing gates may be undertaken.

Medical Decategorization of Railway Staff

  • 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.