7th CPC Dress Allowance – Railway Board Orders on 3.10.2017
Implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission – Dress Allowance.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)
(Railway Board)
PC-VII No-64
File No. PC-VII/2017/I/7/5/7
RBE No.141/2017
New Delhi, Dated: 03.10.2017
The General Managers/CAOs(R),
All Indian Railways and Production Units,
(As per mailing list)
Subject: Implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission – Dress Allowance.
In terms of extant instructions, the Uniform- related allowances being paid to Railway employees as admissible included Kit Maintenance Allowance, Shoe Allowance, Uniform Allowance and Washing Allowance.
2. Consequent to the decision taken by the Government on the recommendations of the 7th CPC, these uniform-related allowances have been subsumed into a single Dress Allowance. The President is pleased to approve payment of this Dress Allowance to the categories of employees and at the rates as listed below:
S.No.
|
Category of
Employees |
Rate (in Rs.)
|
1
|
Officers of
RPF/RPSF |
20,000/- per
annum |
2
|
Personnel Below
Officer Rank of RPF, Station masters of Indian Railways |
10,000/- per
annum |
3
|
Other categories
of staff who were supplied Uniforms and are required to wear them regularly like Trackmen, Running Staff of Indian Railways, Staff Car Drivers, MTS, Canteen staff of Non-Statutory departmental Canteens, etc. |
5,000/- per annum
|
4
|
Nurses
|
1800/- per month
|
3. With this notification of Dress Allowance, existing uniform-related allowances including those for maintenance & washing of uniforms, will no longer be payable separately. Existing orders for payment of such separate uniform-related allowances including Shoe Allowance therefore stand superseded.