The government has given a good news for the railway employees. In fact, the Railway Minister has announced that the government is soon going to improve the salary of about 80,000 railway employees. The government is going to take this step to increase the competition among the railway employees and to end the boredom of work. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has announced new provisions on 16th November.

Through a new provision, Indian Railways is giving an opportunity to the supervisory cadre of the Railways to reach the salary structure equivalent to Group A officers. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that the scope of salary hike and promotion in the supervisory cadre of Railways in Level-7 was very less. Railway employees will be motivated to do better work due to increase in salary.

How much will the salary of the employees increase? About 40,000 supervisor grade employees will benefit from the increase in the salary of railway employees. Supervisor category includes station master, ticket checker, traffic inspector etc. All these are called field level employees. After this increase, the employees will get an average salary of Rs 2,500 to 4,000 more per month. Apart from this, the burden of 10 thousand crore rupees will increase in the salary bill of Railways.

These railway employees will be promoted

While announcing the salary hike of railway employees, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that such a demand was being made among the supervisor cadre employees for the last 16 years. The only option for promotion among these employees was to conduct Group B exam and selection for 3,712 posts. Now after this announcement, 50 percent of the employees will be promoted from level 7 to level 8.

They will also get the benefit of increment. The new provision in the salary of railway employees will also benefit the supervisors of civil, mechanical, electrical, S&T traffic chemical and S&T, metallurgical, store and commercial departments. AIRF General Secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra told that this has been possible after vigorous efforts of All India Railway men’s Federation (AIRF) along with Ministry of Railways as well as DOPT and MOF (DOI). The association had demanded an increase in the salary of the employees from Rs 4,600 to Rs 5,400.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav says that this step of increasing the salary of railway employees will not have any financial impact on the government’s exchequer as it will be mainly compensated by the railways by saving its diesel bill.

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The dearness allowance (DA Hike) hike is being awaited by the government employees. Meanwhile, the rules have been changed by the Central Government regarding the promotion of employees under the Seventh Pay Commission . The central government has made changes in the minimum service qualification required for its employees.

An announcement was made by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on September 20, in which it was said that the promotion of central employees will be decided according to different criteria and qualifications. The DoPT said the revised norms may be incorporated in the recruitment rules, service rules and suitable amendments. In such a situation, all the departments and the ministry have been requested to make amendments according to the changes in these rules.

what has been changed

For promotion from Level 1 to Level 2, the employee should have at least 3 years of service. Whereas from Level 2 to Level 3 for 3 years, from Level 3 to Level 4 for 8 years, from Level 3 to Level 4 and from Level 4 to Level 5, the service for all is 5 years. At the same time, for promotion from level 6 to level 12, an employee needs to remain in the job for at least 12 years. The duration from Level 4 to Level 6, Level 6 to Level 10, Level 11 to Level 13 is 10 years, and for Level 4 to Level 11 is 9 years.

What the DoPT told the departments

Instructions to revise the minimum qualifying service required for promotion as per 7th CPC Pay Matrix, Pay Level have not been issued so far and proposals for formulation, amendment of Recruitment Rules, Service Rules are still under consideration. However, the need was felt to determine the minimum qualifying service for promotion as per the pay level in the Revised Pay Matrix.

Will the dearness allowance of employees increase?

Decision may come soon regarding the increase in inflation of central employees. According to reports, a decision on DA hike can be taken during the cabinet meeting on September 28. However, no official statement has been issued regarding the DA hike yet.

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