R.B.E. No. 200/2001

 Subject: Imposition of penalty of withholding of increments in the promotion grade.  [No. E(D&A) 2000 RG 6-13, dated 8.10.2001]

             Attention of the railways is invited to instructions contained in Board's letter No. E(D&A) 92 RG6-185, dated 12.2.1993 (Bahri's 27/93, p.48). In terms of these instructions, where the penalty of withholding of increment imposed on a Railway officer is to become operative from a future date, the person concerned should be promoted in his turn prospectively with reference to his position in the earlier panel of the DPC and the penalty imposed in the promotion grade for a period which would not result in greater monetary loss. 

2.   Board have since reviewed the above provisions and have decided in partial modification thereof that henceforth no moderation of the period of operation of the penalty will be done while giving effect to the penalty of withholding of increments in the promotional grade. The penalty will be given effect to in the promotional grade for the same period as prescribed in the penalty order. 

      These orders will apply to the cases where actual operation of penalty is yet to start.