R.B.E. No. 99/2002 

Subject: Payment of Breach of Rest Allowance to Running Staff – PNM/ NFIR Item No. 15/2001.

[No. E(P&A)II /20001/FE-2/1, dated 9.7.2002] 

            Please refer to the corresponding resting with your office letter No. P(R) 69/P/Committee, dated 6.5.2002 on the above subject. 

2.   The matter has been examined. It is advised that the instructions contained in Board's letter No. E(S)I- 59/RS/30, dated 26.11.1960 are no longer in force. Vide Board's letter No. E(P&A)II-72/RS-16, dated 15.11.1972 and 21.2.1973, it was stipulated that Breach of Rest Allowance would be payable to Running Staff, if they are called upon to perform running duty before completion of 16 hours rest at headquarters provided it is immediately preceded by a full term of 8 hours or more of duty. 

3.   It is further brought to your notice that in terms of the extent provisions contained in Rule 1511-R-II/1987 Edition, Breach of Rest Allowance is payable to the Running staff (other than those manning suburban services or on shunting duty) who work a train to an outstation and return to their headquarters and are detailed for running duty before completion of 16/12 hours rest at a headquarters when the total period of duty immediately before the rest was for 8 hours or more/less 8 hours, as the case may be. Thus, Breach of Rest Allowance now has no nexus with running duty. 

4.   In view of the above, it is desired that necessary corrective action may be taken at your end urgently, under advice to this office.

2.   It has now been decided that, in pursuance of Section 3(ii) of the Memorandum of Association of the National Open School Society, the Society shall conduct the above examinations at the school stage of education upto pre-degree level, whether academic, technical or vocational, which are developed either by the National Open School itself or in collaboration with other agencies, subject to the approval of the Society's Executive Board or as it may be called upon to conduct by the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development of Education. The Society shall also be the certifying authority for such courses and programmes and do such acts ancillary to these objects as may be necessary. The Central Board of Secondary Education, which was the certifying and examining authority on behalf of the National Open School Society, will cease to be so with effect from the date of issue of this Notification in the Gazette of India.