Railway employees

Railway employees are the staff of Indian Railways, about 11.73 lakh people and 39.06% of the central government’s civilian workforce, paid on the 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix under the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 and governed by the Indian Railway Establishment Code rather than by the Central Civil Services rules.

The second half of that sentence decides most questions a railway employee actually has. Rule 3(1) of the CCS (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965 excludes railway servants as defined in Rule 102 of Volume I of the Indian Railway Establishment Code, and the same split runs through conduct, leave, pension, medical care and travel. A railway employee reading an answer off a CCS rule number is usually reading the wrong instrument.

Two features of railway pay have no counterpart in a civil office. Running staff, the loco pilots, assistant loco pilots and train managers listed in Rule 1507 of the Establishment Code Volume II, draw a kilometreage allowance and carry a pay element of 30% of basic pay for pay-type benefits and 55% for pensionary benefits under Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2013/RS-14 dated 28 May 2019. And railway hours of duty are statutory, fixed by Sections 132 and 136 of the Railways Act, 1989 and the rules made under them, rather than by an administrative office order.

The rest is common central government pay with a railway label on the order. Level 1 entry pay is Rs. 18,000 a month, dearness allowance is 60% of basic pay from 1 January 2026, and house rent allowance and transport allowance are paid at the central rates. The differences that show on the pay slip are the absence of a health-scheme deduction, the presence of the running allowance for train crew, and a bonus of 78 days of wages rather than the 30-day civil ad-hoc bonus.

Every figure is cited to the gazette notification, the Establishment Code rule, or the numbered Railway Board letter that fixes it.

Workforce size and share of the pay bill

Indian Railways employed about 11.73 lakh of the 30.04 lakh central government civilian employees in position outside the Union Territories on 1 March 2023, a share of 39.06% and the largest of any ministry or department. The figures come from the Annual Report on Pay and Allowances of Central Government Civilian Employees 2023-24, compiled by the Pay Research Unit of the Department of Expenditure from ministry returns as on 1 March each year. Home Affairs, which is overwhelmingly the Central Armed Police Forces, is second at 32.78%.

The cost follows the headcount. Railways took 36.39% of the Rs. 2,75,083.75 crore central pay and allowances bill of 2022-23, which works out at about Rs. 1,00,100 crore for the year, a figure derived here from the Pay Research Unit share rather than stated in the report. Railways, Home Affairs, Defence (Civil) and Posts together accounted for 80.48% of that bill.

The workforce is bottom-heavy. The largest single grade is Level 1, the track maintainers, pointsmen and helpers on Rs. 18,000 recruited through the Railway Recruitment Cells, and the organised Group A officer cadres number a few thousand across the zonal railways, the production units and the Railway Board.

One consequence is worth stating plainly before reading any pay revision. A rupee added to minimum pay, or one percentage point added to dearness allowance, costs the Railways more than it costs any other department, which is why the railway federations are the loudest voices in every pay commission cycle.

Pay structure under the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016

Railway pay is fixed by the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, notified as G.S.R. 746(E) dated 28 July 2016 by the Ministry of Railways in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II Section 3(i), and circulated to the zonal railways as RBE No. 90/2016. The rules were made by the President under the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution, and rule 1(2) deems them to have come into force on 1 January 2016, the same date as the civil rules.

The structure is the common pay matrix of 18 levels. Basic pay is a cell in a level, the annual increment of 3% moves the employee one cell down the level each year, and pay fixation on promotion follows the same method as on the civil side, including the bunching relief that RBE No. 139/2017 dated 27 September 2017 and RBE No. 50/2019 dated 13 March 2019 carried across from the Department of Expenditure clarifications of 3 August 2017 and 7 February 2019.

The grades a reader is most likely to be looking for sit in the lower half of the matrix. Level 1 at Rs. 18,000 is the erstwhile Railway Group D; an Assistant Loco Pilot enters at Level 2 on Rs. 19,900; a Loco Pilot is at Level 6 on Rs. 35,400; a Junior Engineer is also at Level 6; and the railway nurse, recruited as Nursing Superintendent, is at Level 7 on Rs. 44,900, the Staff Nurse level in civil hospitals. Rule 2(2) of the 2016 rules carries seven excluded classes, so a person on a contract, on deputation from a state government, or paid from contingencies is not fixed under them.

How a Railway Board order reaches the pay slip

A railway employee’s rate for a common central allowance is fixed by a Railway Board letter, not by the Department of Expenditure order the rest of the central government reads. The Board issues its orders as numbered letters circulated under a Railway Board Establishment serial, written as RBE No. 85/2019 or RBE No. 25/2026, with a PC-VII serial added where the letter implements a 7th CPC decision. The letter usually adopts the central order mutatis mutandis and names the Establishment Code rule it operates under.

Cycle allowance shows the pattern exactly. The Department of Expenditure fixed Rs. 180 a month from 1 July 2017, and the Board reissued that decision as letter No. F(E)I/2017/AL-7/1 dated 11 August 2017, circulated as RBE No. 93/2017, under Rule 1606 of the Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume II, superseding its own letter No. F(E)I/2008/AL-7/2 dated 18 September 2008. Where a Fundamental Rule governs a civil servant, an Establishment Code rule of the same content governs a railway servant: the officiating pay limit of FR 35 is Rule 1329 of Volume II, and the Board applied the Department of Personnel and Training order of 28 February 2019 to it by letter RBE No. 127/2019, PC-VII No. 142, File No. PC-VII/2017/I/7/5/8 dated 8 August 2019.

An Establishment Code rule is amended by an Advance Correction Slip rather than by a fresh edition, which is why a current rule number can sit in a printed volume from 1985 with a 2017 rate. Breakdown Allowance is the clean example: RBE No. 106/2017 dated 30 August 2017 revised the rates and did so by Advance Correction Slip No. 61 to rule 1420 of Volume II.

So the date of effect is often common while the authority is not. A railway employee who quotes only the Department of Expenditure order is quoting an instrument that does not apply to railway servants, and the drawing and disbursing officer will ask for the RBE number.

Which service code applies, and which does not

Every major service condition of a railway servant comes from a railway instrument, and the table below maps each to the civil instrument a reader is more likely to find first. It is a salary-calculator.in construction, assembled from the instruments cited in the references to this article rather than reproduced from any single order.

The exclusions are express rather than implied. Rule 3(1) of the CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 applies those rules to every government servant including every civilian government servant in the Defence Services, and then excludes five categories, the first being railway servants as defined in Rule 102 of Volume I of the Establishment Code. Rule 1(4) of the CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988 excludes railway servants in the same way.

The two codes have also drifted apart on the substance, not only on the numbering. Quarantine leave is the sharpest case: rule 555 of Establishment Code Volume I, which once carried it for railway servants, now reads Deleted, and quarantine leave is no longer a head of leave for a railway servant or for a civil servant either.

Running staff and the pay element in the running allowance

The pay element is the largest financial feature of railway service, and it is a percentage of basic pay, not a percentage of the running allowance. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2013/RS-14 dated 28 May 2019, circulated as RBE No. 85/2019, reckons 30% of a running staff member’s basic pay as pay for every benefit other than retirement, so dearness allowance, house rent allowance and the National Pension System contribution are computed on 1.30 times basic pay. For pension, retirement gratuity and commutation the element is 55%, giving a retirement base of 1.55 times basic pay.

Running staff are defined in Rule 1507 of the Establishment Code Volume II and are the crew on the physical running of a train: Loco Pilots in the Mail or Express, Passenger, Goods and Shunting categories, Assistant Loco Pilots, Motormen, and Guards, re-designated Train Managers by Railway Board letter dated 13 January 2022, RBE No. 7/2022. Only these categories draw kilometreage. A Level 1 track maintainer, a station master and a workshop technician are stationary staff and draw none of it.

The cash rate is quoted per 100 kilometres run. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II/2013/RS-14 (Part-2) dated 20 March 2026, RBE No. 25/2026, fixed the running allowance with effect from 1 January 2024 at Rs. 606 per 100 km for a Loco Pilot (Mail or Express), Rs. 600 for a Loco Pilot (Passenger), Rs. 594 for a Loco Pilot (Goods) and Rs. 430 for an Assistant Loco Pilot, the 25% rise that follows when dearness allowance crosses 50%. A flat Additional Allowance runs alongside it under letter No. PC-V/2017/I/7/5/5 dated 10 August 2017, RBE No. 85/2017, at Rs. 2,250 a month for a Loco Pilot (Mail or Express), Rs. 1,125 for a Loco Pilot (Passenger) or a Mail or Express Guard, and Rs. 750 for a Loco Pilot (Goods), and that allowance carries dearness allowance but no pensionary reckoning.

The 30% figure is not confined to Board circulars. Rule 2(d)(I) of the Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 writes the element into the definition of the ordinary rate of pay, which is what prices an hour of overtime, so a running staff member’s overtime is computed on 1.30 times basic pay as well. A Loco Inspector, the supervisory grade drawn from experienced loco pilots, leaves the running cadre and keeps a 30% element for pensionary benefits alone, under the scheme traceable to Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II/83/RS-10(iv) dated 25 November 1992.

Hours of work, rest and overtime

Railway hours of duty are fixed by statute, which no other central civilian employee’s hours are. Sections 132 and 136 of the Railways Act, 1989 govern the field, and the Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005 made under Section 136 classify every railway servant as intensive, continuous or essentially intermittent, with the rostered week following the classification rather than a uniform office week.

Rule 8(3)(b) fixes 48 standard hours a week for continuous classification, and rule 8(7) deems the preparatory and complementary work of running staff to be a further 4 hours a week, so the rostered week for running staff is 52 hours. Section 132(2) of the Railways Act, 1989 caps a continuous-classification railway servant at 54 hours a week averaged over a two-week period of fourteen days, and rule 10(2)(i) applies that averaging to running staff, so the fortnightly average governs rather than any single week.

Rest is a separate entitlement under rule 12. A continuous-classification railway servant gets not less than 30 consecutive hours of rest every week commencing on a Sunday, and may not be called on duty without at least 10 consecutive hours of rest after the previous tour of duty. Running staff get, each month, either five rest periods of not less than 22 consecutive hours each or four of not less than 30 consecutive hours each including a full night, with duty counted from signing on to signing off.

Overtime follows from the same rules rather than from the civil overtime allowance order. Rule 10 pays one and a half times the ordinary rate between the rostered hours and the Section 132 limits, and twice the ordinary rate beyond them.

Railway-specific allowances

Some railway allowances have no civil counterpart, and every common central allowance reaches railway staff through a parallel Board letter at the same rate. Dearness allowance stands at 60% of basic pay from 1 January 2026 under Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026 and moves identically for railway and civil employees.

Night Duty Allowance is the allowance most railway employees ask about, because the Railways runs more night rosters than any other department and the entitlement is capped by pay. The Board applied the 7th CPC formula to its eligible non-gazetted staff by order RBE No. 83/2020 dated 29 September 2020: an hourly rate of basic pay plus dearness allowance divided by 200 for duty between 22:00 and 06:00, payable only where basic pay does not exceed Rs. 43,600 a month. That ceiling excludes the whole of Level 7, whose entry cell is Rs. 44,900, and all but the first eight cells of Level 6, which is exactly where station masters, goods train managers and senior technicians on regular night duty sit.

Breakdown Allowance is paid monthly to the staff who attend to breakdowns and accidents, including the crews of accident relief trains. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2017/BDA-1 dated 30 August 2017, RBE No. 106/2017, S. No. PC-VII/51, fixed the base rates with effect from 1 July 2017 and amended rule 1420 of Establishment Code Volume II by Advance Correction Slip No. 61. Those base rates are no longer the rates paid: as a fixed-rupee allowance it carries the 25% escalation that fell due when dearness allowance reached 50%, applied by Railway Board letter File No. PC-VII/2024/I/7/5/5 dated 4 June 2024 with effect from 1 January 2024.

Base rates from Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2017/BDA-1 dated 30 August 2017 (RBE No. 106/2017), effective 1 July 2017. The Level 1 rate of Rs. 338 is the figure carried in Annexure-I to Railway Board letter File No. PC-VII/2024/I/7/5/5 dated 4 June 2024; the remaining three rows apply the same 25% step to the base rate and are a salary-calculator.in derivation.

The minor running allowances are a cluster rather than a single payment. The Rules for the Payment of Running and Other Allowances to Running Staff provide Trip Allowance, Breach of Rest Allowance, Outstation Detention and Outstation Relieving Allowances, Officiating Allowance, Accident Allowance, Shunting Allowance, Ghat Allowance for steeply graded sections, Waiting Duty Allowance and a Running Room Allowance, each revised from time to time by Board order. Uniformed staff draw a dress allowance on the central scale, and the cycle allowance of Rs. 180 a month survives under rule 1606 of Volume II.

Productivity Linked Bonus instead of the ad-hoc bonus

A railway employee draws Productivity Linked Bonus, not the 30-day ad-hoc bonus paid to a central employee in a department without a productivity scheme. For the accounting year 2024-25 the Union Cabinet approved 78 days of wages on 24 September 2025, and the Railway Board conveyed the sanction by order RBE No. 101/2025, No. E(P&A)II/2025/PLB-1, at a cost of Rs. 1,865.68 crore covering 10,91,146 employees.

Two conditions decide what an individual receives. The calculation ceiling is Rs. 7,000 a month, unchanged since 1 April 2014, so the announced maximum is Rs. 17,951 however high the actual wage: a technician on Rs. 90,000 a month is fully eligible and is still paid on the notional Rs. 7,000. The sanction covers non-gazetted employees only, and every railway PLB order, RBE No. 101/2025 included, excludes all Railway Protection Force and Railway Protection Special Force personnel by name.

The Railways has paid 78 days every year since 2010-11, which makes the figure look automatic. It is not. The scheme provides for a review of the productivity formula every three years in consultation with the All India Railwaymen’s Federation and the National Federation of Indian Railwaymen, and the number of days is sanctioned afresh by the Cabinet each year.

Pension and the National Pension System

Pension for a railway servant appointed before 1 January 2004 is governed by the Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 2026, notified as G.S.R. 23(E) dated 12 January 2026 under the proviso to Article 309 and circulated by RBE No. 07/2026, Railway Board letter No. D-43/9/2022-F(E)III dated 20 January 2026. Rule 87 repeals the Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993 and provides that every earlier rule, regulation, order or instruction ceases to operate so far as it provides for a matter contained in the new rules, with savings for nominations, family-details forms and pending cases. Most of the rules commenced on gazette publication, while rules 31, 32 and 65 are deemed in force from 20 December 2021.

An employee appointed on or after 1 January 2004 is outside those rules by the proviso to rule 2(1). That cohort is governed by the Railway Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2025, circulated as RBE No. 103/2025, letter No. D-43/10/2021-F(E)III dated 8 October 2025, under which the employee contributes 10% of basic pay plus dearness allowance and the government 14%. Where the running allowance pay element applies, both contributions are computed on 1.30 times basic pay, which is why a running staff member accumulates a larger corpus than the printed pay level suggests.

The Unified Pension Scheme was extended to railway employees from 1 April 2025 by Railway Board order RBE No. 25/2025, so a post-2004 railway employee now chooses between the National Pension System and the assured-payout option on the same terms as a civil employee. Retirement gratuity for the post-2004 cohort comes from the Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025, circulated as RBE No. 121/2025, which mirror the civil gratuity under the NPS rules for the Railways rather than extending them.

Two further railway pension instruments remain separate and live, and both are cited in the 2026 rules themselves: the Railway Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1993 and the Railway Services (Commutation of Pension) Rules, 1993. A railway pensioner reading the civil CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 for a rule number will not find the corresponding provision at the same number.

Medical attendance and the absence of a health-scheme deduction

Railway employees and their families are treated free of charge at railway hospitals and health units, so a railway pay slip carries no health-scheme subscription. Rule 602 of the Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume I, reproduced as paragraph 602 of the Indian Railway Medical Manual, makes medical attendance and treatment available free of charge to all railway employees and their family members and dependent relatives, whatever their group and whether permanent or temporary. The saving against a comparable civil post is small in rupees, about Rs. 250 a month at Level 1, and absolute in kind: there is no contribution at all rather than a lower one.

The Central Government Health Scheme reaches only a narrow slice of the Railways. Sub-section 1 of rule 602 places the staff of the Railway Board, the Research Designs and Standards Organisation and the Railway Liaison Office with headquarters at New Delhi under the rules issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for central government servants at Delhi. Every other railway employee is on the railway medical organisation, which is why a railway employee is not looking for a CGHS Wellness Centre or a CGHS ward entitlement.

Retirement changes the basis from an entitlement to a scheme. The Retired Employees Liberalised Health Scheme, introduced in 1997 under Ministry of Railways letter No. 91/H/28/1 dated 23 October 1997 and set out in paragraph 612-A of the Indian Railway Medical Manual, admits an employee with at least 20 years of qualifying railway service on a one-time contribution equal to the last month’s basic pay, and then gives the full medical facilities admissible to a serving employee, with ambulance service and medical passes. The option has to be exercised at least three months before retirement and is final.

A railway pensioner who does not join, or who lives away from a railway hospital, falls back on the fixed medical allowance, and the railway test is a distance rather than a CGHS area. Railway Board letter No. PC-V/2011/A/Med./1 dated 7 June 2011 requires the pensioner to certify residence beyond 2.5 km from the nearest railway hospital or health unit listed in Annexure III to letter No. PC-V/98/I/7/1/1 dated 21 April 1999, and the grant was consolidated by RBE No. 146/2014 dated 19 December 2014.

Privilege passes, ticket orders and leave travel concession

Free and concessional travel is the benefit in kind that a railway employee values most, and it comes from the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 rather than from any pay order. Schedule II to those rules, read with rule 6, gives a Group A or Group B employee 6 sets of privilege passes and 6 privilege ticket orders a year. A Group C or other employee gets one set up to the end of the fifth year of railway service and three sets a year thereafter, with the same number of privilege ticket orders.

The class of travel was moved off the old pay-scale columns by Railway Board letter No. E(W)2016/PS5-1/8 dated 26 July 2019, RBE No. 120/2019, Advance Correction Slip No. 81, which fixed entitlement on a status and pay-level basis, gazetted or non-gazetted read with the level in the pay matrix, and allowed an existing First Class pass to continue as personal to the employee. Passes and privilege ticket orders were provided for in digitised or electronic form by letter No. E(W)2016/PS5-1/9 dated 21 February 2020, RBE No. 24/2020, Advance Correction Slip No. 84.

The pass is also why the leave travel concession works differently. Rule 1(4) of the CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988 excludes railway servants outright, because the privilege pass already covers the home town journey. Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 31011/15/2017-Estt.A-IV dated 27 March 2018 restores the part the pass does not cover, allowing a railway employee the All India LTC once in a block of four years on conditions. A railway employee claiming a home town LTC is claiming something the rules do not provide.

Recruitment through the Railway Recruitment Boards

Group C recruitment runs through 21 Railway Recruitment Boards and the Railway Recruitment Cells of the zonal railways, and the two split the field by level rather than by region. The Ministry of Railways lists boards at Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Bilaspur, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Jammu, Kolkata, Malda, Mumbai, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Ranchi, Secunderabad, Siliguri and Trivandrum, each notifying vacancies through a Centralised Employment Notice, and the Railway Board handles board matters through the E(RRB) branch of its Establishment Directorate.

The categories follow the pay matrix. A Railway Recruitment Board notice covers the non-technical popular categories, station masters, goods train managers and commercial and ticket clerks at Levels 2 to 6, Assistant Loco Pilots and technicians at Levels 2 to 4, Junior Engineers at Level 6, and, in the separate Paramedical Categories notice, the Nursing Superintendent at Level 7 (272 vacancies in CEN No. 03/2025). The Railway Recruitment Cells recruit the Level 1 grade of track maintainers, pointsmen and helpers on Rs. 18,000. Selection is by computer-based test, with a physical efficiency test for the relevant categories and document verification before appointment. The Railway Protection Force recruits constables and sub-inspectors separately: the Railway Recruitment Boards ran the 2024 cycle under CEN RPF 01/2024 and 02/2024, and rule 49.1 of the RPF Rules 1987, as substituted by G.S.R. 766(E) in force from 21 October 2025, moves executive-cadre selection to the Staff Selection Commission’s procedure for the Central Armed Police Forces.

Group A officers enter separately, through the Union Public Service Commission, and are outside the recruitment-board machinery altogether. The wider subject of applying for a central post is covered in the central government jobs article.

The Railway Board and the unification of the officer services

The Railway Board is both the ministry and the apex management of the railways, and its own structure changed in 2019. The Union Cabinet approved a restructuring on 24 December 2019 under which the Board ceased to be organised on departmental lines: it is headed by the Chairman Railway Board acting as Chief Executive Officer, with members for infrastructure, operations and business development, traction and rolling stock, and finance, alongside Directors General for the Railway Protection Force, the Railway Health Service, human resources and safety. Three apex-level posts were surrendered in the process.

The same Cabinet decision approved unification of the eight organised Group A services of the Railways into a single central service, the Indian Railway Management Service, with recruitment through the Union Public Service Commission in consultation with the Department of Personnel and Training. The existing Indian Railway Medical Service was renamed the Indian Railway Health Service to free the abbreviation.

The unification is decided but not finished, and the distinction matters to a serving officer. Railway Board posting orders issued as late as September 2026 still designate officers by their legacy service, the traffic, accounts, civil engineering, mechanical, electrical, signal and telecommunication and stores services, so a 2019 announcement should not be read as a completed cadre merger. An officer’s seniority, cadre and promotion still turn on the legacy service in which the officer was appointed.

Railway employees and the 8th Central Pay Commission

Railway employees are inside the remit of the 8th Central Pay Commission and no railway figure under it exists yet. The Commission was constituted by Department of Expenditure Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 and has not reported, so the pay matrix, the fitment factor and every allowance rate on this page remain those of the 7th CPC framework as carried into the Railways by the Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016.

Two railway demands are on the record and neither is a decision. The federations have pressed for the running allowance and its pay element to be revisited, and for the Rs. 43,600 Night Duty Allowance ceiling to be raised or removed so that the allowance follows the night duty rather than the pay. A specific 8th CPC figure quoted for a railway grade is a projection: until the Commission reports and the government issues an order, and then until the Railway Board circulates that order with an RBE number, the operative instruments are the ones cited here.

Related Articles

• Railway Group D salary
• Loco Pilot salary
• Running Allowance
• Railway Recruitment Board
• Railway Protection Force
• Indian Railway Establishment Code
• Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016
• Productivity Linked Bonus
• Ad-hoc bonus for employees without PLB
• Night Duty Allowance
• Overtime allowance
• Dress allowance
• Cycle allowance
• Fixed medical allowance
• Central Government Health Scheme
• Leave travel concession
• Quarantine leave
• CCS (CCA) Rules
• Appeal, revision and review under the CCS (CCA) Rules
• Departmental inquiry
• Article 311
• FR 35 officiating pay limit
• Charge allowance and current duty
• Bunching of pay
• Pay matrix
• Pay fixation
• Annual increment
• Fitment factor
• Salary by pay level
• Minimum pay
• Dearness allowance
• House rent allowance
• Transport allowance
• Junior Engineer salary
• Central government jobs
• Central government employees in India
• Central Armed Police Forces
• Central government pension
• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
• National Pension System
• Unified Pension Scheme
• Gratuity under the NPS Rules
• Take-home salary of central government employees
• Income tax for government employees
• Department of Expenditure
• 7th Central Pay Commission
• 8th Central Pay Commission
• 7th CPC salary calculator

External references

• Ministry of Railways, Railway Board
• Indian Railway Establishment Code, Volume I
• Indian Railway Medical Manual
• Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986
• Railway Recruitment Boards
• 7th Central Pay Commission report
• Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance

References

1. Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, notification G.S.R. 746(E) dated 28 July 2016, Gazette of India Extraordinary Part II Section 3(i), circulated as RBE No. 90/2016, deemed in force from 1 January 2016.
2. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2013/RS-14 dated 28 May 2019 (RBE No. 85/2019): pay element in running allowance, 30% of basic pay for benefits other than retirement and 55% for pensionary benefits.
3. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II/2013/RS-14 (Part-2) dated 20 March 2026 (RBE No. 25/2026): Kilometreage Allowance and Allowance in Lieu of Kilometreage with effect from 1 January 2024.
4. Railway Servants (Hours of Work and Period of Rest) Rules, 2005, rules 2(d), 8, 10 and 12, made under Section 136 of the Railways Act, 1989, read with Section 132 of that Act.
5. Indian Railway Establishment Code, Volume I: Rule 102 (railway servant), rules 501 to 557 (leave), rule 555 (quarantine leave, deleted), rule 602 (free medical attendance), Appendix I (Railway Services (Conduct) Rules, 1966).
6. Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 2026, notification G.S.R. 23(E) dated 12 January 2026, rules 1(2), 2(1) and 87, circulated by RBE No. 07/2026, letter No. D-43/9/2022-F(E)III dated 20 January 2026.
7. Railway Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2025, RBE No. 103/2025, letter No. D-43/10/2021-F(E)III dated 8 October 2025; Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025, RBE No. 121/2025; Unified Pension Scheme for railway employees, RBE No. 25/2025.
8. Indian Railway Medical Manual, paragraphs 602 and 612-A; Ministry of Railways letter No. 91/H/28/1 dated 23 October 1997 (Retired Employees Liberalised Health Scheme).
9. Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986, rule 6 and Schedule II; Railway Board letter No. E(W)2016/PS5-1/8 dated 26 July 2019 (RBE No. 120/2019, Advance Correction Slip No. 81); letter No. E(W)2016/PS5-1/9 dated 21 February 2020 (RBE No. 24/2020, Advance Correction Slip No. 84).
10. Railway Board letter No. E(P&A)II-2017/BDA-1 dated 30 August 2017 (RBE No. 106/2017, S. No. PC-VII/51): Breakdown Allowance rates from 1 July 2017, Advance Correction Slip No. 61 to rule 1420 of Establishment Code Volume II.
11. Railway Board order RBE No. 101/2025, No. E(P&A)II/2025/PLB-1: Productivity Linked Bonus of 78 days for 2024-25; RBE No. 83/2020 dated 29 September 2020: Night Duty Allowance.
12. Annual Report on Pay and Allowances of Central Government Civilian Employees 2023-24, Pay Research Unit, Department of Expenditure: employees in position on 1 March 2023 and the 2022-23 pay and allowances bill.