Job Profile of Commercial Clerk (CC)

Job profile

  • CC can be posted in Ticket Booking Offices (known as Booking Clerk) or in Goods Shed (Known as Goods Clerk). 

  • Booking Clerk issues tickets to Passengers (either traditional paper tickets or through computerized Unreserved Ticket System – UTS), book Luggage and parcels, supervise their loading and maintains concerned registers. Nowadays in some small stations Booking Clerk is also given additional charge of Computerized Passenger Reservation.

  • Booking Clerk can be given independent charge of a small station (known as Clerk-in-charge) stations or work under a Station Master or a Booking Supervisor in other stations.

  • Goods Clerk works in major Goods dealing stations/yards. His job involves booking freight traffic, coordinate with SM/YM regarding allotment of wagon, loading/unloading etc.

Recruitment(Ref 1)

  • 50%  of vacancies in CCby  direct  recruitment  through  Railway Recruitment Boards(RRB).
  • 33-⅓%  of vacancies are filled by promotion  by  a  process  of  selection  from  eligible  Group  D  categories  of  Traffic and Commercial departments with 3 years of continuous  service.  This  minimum service condition does  not  apply  to  Scheduled  Castes  and  Scheduled  Tribes  candidates.
  • 16-⅔%  by  promotion  entirely  on  merit  of  Matriculate  Group  'D'  employees  from  eligible  categories,  as  specified  by  the  Zonal  Railways  with  a  minimum  of  2  years  regular  service  in  the  concerned  seniority  unit  on  the  basis  of  a  competitive  examination  consisting  of  Written  Test  (85  marks  )and  Record  of  Service  (15  marks).

Qualification for Direct Recruitment

  • Matriculation  or  its  equivalent  with  not  less  than  50%  marks  in  the  aggregate(Ref 1)

 

Career progression

 

Grade Pay

Percentage distribution of total posts

Commercial Clerks (CC)

2000

12

Sr. Commercial Clerks (Sr. CC)

2800

22

Chief  Commercial Clerks (CCC)

4200

46

Dy. Station Manager(C)

4600

20

  • Commercial  Clerks  have  channel  of  promotion  to  the  categories  of  Commercial  Inspectors/other  Supervisory  posts  in  the  Commercial  Departments  and  Enquiry-cum-Reservation  Clerks  as  per  procedure  laid  down  for  filling  up  to  vacancies  in  the  respective  categories.  
  • 25%  of  the  post  in  grade  Rs.  1600-2660  of  Chief  Booking/Parcel/Goods  &  Luggage  Clerks  will  be  filled  by  recruitment  of  Commercial  Apprentices  of  which  15%  will  be  by  direct  recruitment  from  open  market  through  the  Railway  Recruitment  Boards  and  10%  from  amongst  serving  Graduate  upto  the  age  of  40  years  in  the  Commercial  Department  (others  than  Ministerial)  through  a  Limited  Departmental  Competitive  Examination.   

Salary and other perks

(i)

Pay Scale

5200 – 20200

(ii)

Grade Pay

2000

(iii)

Initial Pay

6460

(iv)

Total Pay (i) + (ii )

8460

  • Other Allowances depend on various conditions and hence can’t be stated uniformly. Other major allowances include :

Transport Allowance

House Rent Allowance(if not provided with quarters)

  • Deductions from salary include 10% of total Pay towards New Pension scheme.

References

1.     Rule 128 of  Indian  Railway  Establishment  Manual Chapter  I

2.   Railway Board’s letter No. PC-III/2013/CRC/4 dated 08-10-2013

Comments

Basha_Shaik1987

Fri, 21/08/2015 - 18:36

Hi sir,
 
I got Traffic Apprentice post in CEN 03/2012 and allocated to Salem division.
 
For TA, medical standard is A-2.
 
But unfortunately I was not able to clear my medical as I had some vision problem.
 
Without knowing I went for treatment and appeared for re-medical. They unfitted me in re-medical.
 
Is there any possibility to get another post, since that exam was conducted for all 7 categories.
 
I am eligible for 4 categories out of these 7.
 
Can you please guide me how to proceed on that?
 
 
 
Thanks.

Basha_Shaik1987

Fri, 21/08/2015 - 18:37

Hi sir,
 
 
 
I got Traffic Apprentice post in CEN 03/2012 and allocated to Salem division.
 
For TA, medical standard is A-2.
 
But unfortunately I was not able to clear my medical as I had some vision problem.
 
Without knowing I went for treatment and attended Re-medical. But they unfitted me in re-medical also.
 
Is there any possibility to get another post, since that exam was conducted for all 7 categories.
 
I am eligible for 4 categories out of these 7.
 
Can you please guide me how to proceed on that?
 
 
 
Thanks.

Gaurav Pandey 123

Sat, 03/10/2015 - 22:59

Hi sir,
I want to know that the post of commercial clerk is different from booking, parcel and goods clerk or not..
Because I was posted with designation of commercial clerk in march 2012 while my colleagues were posted as booking, parcel and goods clerk..
So, please guide me..
And if commercial clerk is different post than they will have separate seniority or not..

THANKS...

nitin Jondhale

Sat, 20/02/2016 - 18:46

Sir i have completed mechanical diploma so what is procedure for a apprenticeship and schedule of that . please give me guidance....