7th Pay Commission Dress Allowance to Railway employees should be at Rs.10000/- per annum instead of Rs.5000: NFIR

7th Pay Commission Dress Allowance to Railway employees should be at Rs.10000/- per annum instead of Rs.5000: NFIR  

NFIR

National Federation of Indian Railwaymen

No. III/DR/2/Part IV

Dated : 05/09/2017

The Secretary (E),

Railway Board,

New Delhi

Dear Sir,

Federation invites kind attention of Railway Board to para 8.16.14 of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission, according to which, the Track Maintainers, Running Staff Car Drivers, Points Man, Technicians in Workshops etc., on Indian Railways who are supplied uniform and are required to wear dress regularly have been recommended to be paid Rs. 5000/- per year as Dress Allowance (including shoes).

Vide foot note to the above recommendation, the 7th CPC has also recommended that the Ministries/Departments may take a decision on “whether the rates should be Rs.5000/- per year or Rs.10,000/- per year”. This recommendation has been accepted by the Government.

In this connection, NFIR points out that the Dress Allowance amount of Rs.5000/– per annum is very much inadequate to take care of the annual requirement of the staff in Railways, particularly due to the reason that staff of Railway categories’ are required to wear the uniform regularly while on duty as per extant rules.

NFIR, therefore, requests the Railway Board to consider payment of Dress Allowance at Rs.10,000/- per annum to the Track Maintainers, Running Staff, Ticket Checking Staff, Pointsmen, Technicians etc., and accordingly issue instructions to GMs etc.,

A copy of the instructions issued may be endorsed to the Federation.