Re-engagement of retired staff against vacant posts on contractual basis, RBE No 96/2024

Re-engagement of retired staff against vacant posts on contractual basis: Keeping in view the difficulties being experienced by Zonal Railways due to vacant posts of supervisors / staff, it has been decided by the Board that Railways may re-engage retired staff in exigencies of the services against the vacant posts, with following conditions:

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• Keeping in view the difficulties being experienced by Zonal Railways due to vacant posts of supervisors / staff, it has been decided by the Board that Railways may re-engage retired staff in exigencies of the services against the vacant posts, with following conditions:
  • Non-gazetted Railway staff retired in Pay Level-l to Pay Level-7 may be considered for re-engagement against the vacant posts subject to stipulation that he/she may be re-engaged against the post having the same pay-level held by him/her at the time of retirement.
  • Powers to re-engage retired employees will be with General Managers only.
  • Railway should give adequate publicity to such re-engagement, including by putting it on Railway websites.
  • While re-engaging such staff, medical fitness of the appropriate category should be obtained from the designated authorities as per existing practices.
  • Retired employees being re-engaged should not have been covered under the Safety Related Retirement Scheme/ Liberalized Active Retirement Scheme for Guaranteed Employment for Safety Staff (LARSGESS).
  • Maximum age limit for which re-engagement shall continue will be 65 years.

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• Each engagement should be decided on merits of the requirement and the suitability of the person for the job. The Committee should take in account working experience of staff so that they are useful for the purpose for which they are selected.
• The scheme will remain in vogue for an initial period of 2 years from the date of issue of instruction or till further orders, whichever is earlier. Engagement period of an individual retired staff will be for a period of 0l year or till further orders, whichever is earlier. However, based on satisfactory performance of a re-engaged retired staff, his/her period of engagement can further be extended for a further period of one year or till attainment of 65 years of age, whichever is earlier.
• Re-engaged staff should be discharged immediately on joining of selected candidates from RRBs. Panel of Level-l, Train Manager, Junior Engineer, Technician etc have been made available in last 1 year. Candidates of these panels might have completed their training or will be completing their training. Further, panels of all important categories viz AlP/Technicians/Sub Inspector,/Constable/Para-medicalA.ITPc(UG) and NTPC(Graduate)/Level-l will be made available approximately within next 1-1.5 years. The position of available and future panels may be kept in mind before formulating requirement of re-engagement.