7th CPC - Dress Allowance for eligible Railway Employees: Railway Board Order No. RBE 141/2017

7th CPC - Dress Allowance for eligible Railway Employees: Railway Board Order No. RBE 141/2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)

Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya)

(Railway Board)

PC-VII No.- 64

RBE No. 141/2017

File No. PC-VII/2017/I/7/5/7

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. 

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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: 

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 Existing orders for payment of such separate uniform-related allowances including Shoe Allowance therefore stand superseded. 

4. With the payment of this Dress Allowance, categories of staff who were earlier being provided Uniforms, will henceforth not be provided with Uniforms. 

5. The amount of Dress Allowance shall be credited to the salary of entitled employees directly once a year in the month of July. 

6. This allowance covers only the basic uniform of the employees. Any special clothing like the fluorescent clothing provided to Trackmen of Indian Railways will continue to be provided by this Ministry as per existing norms. 

7. The rates of Dress Allowance will go up by 25% each time Dearness Allowance rises by 50%. 

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8. These orders shall take effect from 01st July, 2017. 

Hindi version will follow.

(Jaya Kuma G)

Deputy Director (Pay Commission) VII

Railway Board

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[http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/pay_comm/PC7/Dress%20Allowance_RB_141.PDF] 

7th Pay Commission: Payment of Washing Expenditure to Industrial Employees with revised rate - BPMS

7th Pay Commission : Payment of Washing Expenditure to Industrial Employees with revised rate - BPMS requests

BHARATIYA PRATIRAKSHA MAZDOOR SANGH

(AN ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF DEFENCE WORKERS)

(AN INDUSTRIAL UNIT OF B.M.S.) 

REF: BPMS / MOD / Allowances / 48A (7/2/R)

Dated: 01.10.2017

To,
The Secretary,

Govt of India, Min of Defence,

South Block, DHQ PO,

New Delhi � 110011 

Subject: Payment of �Washing Expenditure� to Industrial Employees with revised rate.

Respected Sir, 

With due regards, it is submitted that the industrial personnel in Min of Defence have been authorized for protective clothing/garments such as water-proofs, warm overcoats, overall, Dangries, Apron and protective accessories such as gum boots, boiler suits, goggles and gauntlets etc. These protective clothing & accessories are being issued to the specified categories whose duties require the issue of these accessories. Protective garments and accessories are provided either as a protection against inclement weather for those who works out-doors or against hazards such as are encountered in factories etc (kindly refer Para 1 & 2 of Chapter 64 - Staff Amenities, 3rd CPC Report and Para 26.44 of 4th CPC Report).

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For the washing of some of these protective clothing garments, all the concerned industrial workers employed in Army Ordnance Corps were granted �Washing Allowance� Rs. 4/ per month per worker and this amount was revised to Rs. 8/- per month vide MoD letter No. 82147/P.CIo/OS- 10A/2876/D(O-II), Dated 08 Sep. 1998 (copy enclosed).

Later, a corrigendum was issued vide MoD Letter No. 82147/P.CIo/OS-10A/1626/D(O-II), Dated 06 May 1999 (copy enclosed) to define that �Washing Allowance� mentioned in the letter dated 08.09.1998 will be �Washing Expenditure�. In due course, this �Washing Expenditure� has been revised on the introduction of subsequent Central Pay Commissions.

Now, on the recommendation of 7th CPC �Washing Allowance� being granted for the washing of uniform has been abolished and subsumed in dress allowance in respect of Nurses as per DoE, Min of Fin, Resolution No. 11-1/2016-IC, Dated 06.07.2017. It has to be kept in the mind that the �Washing Expenditure� being granted to industrial personnel for washing of protective clothing has not been abolished or subsumed in the dress allowance and there is no mention of �Washing Expenditure� in the 7th CPC�s Report or in the Resolution of Govt of India dated 06.07.2017.

In such circumstances, you are requested to take appropriate action so that entitled industrial employees may be granted the �Washing Expenditure� unflagging with revised rate.

Thanking you.

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Sincerely yours

Enclosed: As mentioned

(MUKESH SINGH)

Secretary/BPMS &

Member, JCM-II Level Council (MOD) 

Source : BPMS

[http://bpms.org.in/documents/pad-bpms-2-yi4k.pdf]