Retirement of Railway Servants – Railway Board Instructions

Presently the instructions on the subject of ‘Retirement of Railway Servants’, issued by Railway Board from time to time are contained in this Master Circular

Retirement of Railway Servants

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No. E(P&A)I-2019/RT-10
New Delhi, dated 30.09.2019

The General Managers,
All Indian Railways
(As per mailing list)

Sub.:- Retirement.

Please find enclosed herewith a copy Of Master Circular NO. 35 (bilingual) updated in September, 2019 regarding Retirement, for information and necessary action.
DA: AS above.

(N Singh)
Joint Director/Estt (P&A)
Railway Board.

Master Circular No. 35
(Updated September 2019)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

New Delhi, dated 09 September 2019

No. E(P&A)I-2019/RT-10

The General Managers,
All Indian Railways
(As per mailing list)

Sub.:- Retirement,

Ref;- Railway Board’s letter No. E(P&A)I-91/RT-2/Master Circular dated 19.09.1991.

Presently the instructions on the subject — ‘Retirement Of railway servants’, issued by Railway Board from time to time are contained in several letters/circulars. The last Master Circular on the subject was issued vide Board’s letter No. E(P&A)I-91/RT-2/Master Circular dated Railway Board has now decided to review and consolidate these instructions into a single body as an updated Master Circular, as below, for the information and guidance Of all concerned.

General:

2.Retirement from service means a Railway servant ceasing to be in service. The various modes by which the services of a Railway servant may come to an end are; –
i. Normal retirement on superannuation;
ii. Retirement due to medical invalidation;
iii. Premature retirement ordered in the public interest; and
iv. Premature/Voluntary retirement on his/her own option.

A- Normal Retirement.

3.Every Railway servant barring those mentioned in paras 3.1 and 3.2 below shall retire from, service on attaining superannuation i.e. the age of sixty years.
(Ref-Board’s letter No. dated 14.05.1998 (RBE No. 103/98 and Rule 1801 (a) – Indian Railway Establishment code, Vol. 11/1987)

3.1. Lecturers of Railway Degree College, Lallaguda, S.C. Railway shall retire from service on attaining the age of 65 years.
(Ref:- Board’s letter No. E(P&A)I-2007/RT-8 dated 13.12.2007 (RBE No. 161/2007)

3.2. The age Of superannuation of Doctors belonging to IRMS and Dental Doctors under the Ministry of Railways shall be sixty-two (62) years unless they exercise the option of posting to a Clinical post depending upon their expertise and experience, as decided by the Competent Authority in the Ministry of Railways from time to time, in case they desire to continue in their service upto the age Of sixty- five (65) years,
(Ref;- Board’s letter No. . E(P&A)I-2016/RT-16 dated 20.09.2018.(RBE No. 144/2018)

Date of Normal Retirement :-

The date of retirement will be based on the date of birth of the Railway servant as recorded in his/her Service Book/Service Register and will be as under: –

Date of birth	Date of retirement on attaining 60/62/65 years of age
1st of a month	Afternoon Of the last day of the preceding month
Any other date of a month	Afternoon of the last day of that month.

(Ref: Board’s letters No. PC-III/73/RT/4 dated 18.12.1973, 20.5.1974 and 2.8.1974 and E(P&A)I-2016/RT-16 dated 20.02.2019 (RBE No. 30/2019).

4.1 In other cases of retirement viz., retirement due to medical unfitness or invalidation, premature retirement, voluntary retirement, the provision given in Para 4 above will not apply.

Relinquishment or charge

Retirement from service on attaining the age of superannuation is automatic and in the absence of specific orders to the contrary by the competent authority. a Railway servant must retire on the due date and cannot take advantage of non-receipt of formal orders regarding his/her retirement, relief etc.

It is the responsibility of the Administrative authorities concerned to ensure that the Railway servants under their control retire on the due date on attaining the age of superannuation. The Railway servant, on his/her part, is also required to bring the fact that he/she is attaining the age of superannuation to the notice of the Head of the Office in which he/she is serving and make over charge on the due date to his/her reliever, or to any other railway servant who may be nominated,
(Ref:-Board’s letter No. E(P&A)I-79/EM 1/2 dated 7.5.1979)

5.1 The administrative authorities concerned should ensure that the machinery under their control is suitably geared to maintain the personal records of Railway servants up-to-date at all times to guard against any eventuality of retaining a railway servant irregularly, beyond the age of superannuation.
(Ref: Board’s letter No.E(G)78/RT 2/10 dated 3.7.1978).

Relinquishment of charge when ‘the date or retirement happens to be holiday.

The retiring Railway servant should formally relinquish charge of the post/office on the afternoon of the last day of the month in which his/her retirement falls, even if that day

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