DR RULES

Question 1

Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules

Answer 1

1968

Question 2

The Railway servants (Discipline & Appeal) Rules implemented on

Answer 2

1st day of October, 1968.

01.10.1968

Question 3

rule 4

Answer 3

Authorities competent to place a Railway servant under suspension

Question 4

rule 4

Answer 4

The classes of Railway
servants who may be placed under suspension and the authorities by whom they may be so placed, shall
be as specified in Schedules I, II and III

Question 5

rule 5

Answer 5

Suspension

Question 6

A Railway servant may be placed under suspension

Answer 6

a disciplinary proceeding against him is contemplated or is pending
in the opinion of the authority competent to place a Railway servant under suspension,
he has engaged himself in activities prejudicial to the interest of the security of the state;
where a case against him in respect of any criminal offence, is under investigation, inquiry or trial

Question 7

rule 5(2)

Answer 7

A Railway servant shall be deemed to have been placed under suspension by an order of the
competent authority

Question 8

rule 5(1)

Answer 8

A Railway servant may be placed under suspension

Question 9

Deemed to have been placed under suspension

Answer 9

with effect from the date of his detention, if he is detained in custody, whether on a criminal
charge or otherwise, for a period exceeding forty-eight hours (48 hours)

Question 10

rule 5(2)(b)

Answer 10

with effect from the date of his conviction, if in the event of a conviction for an offence, he is
sentenced to a term of imprisonment exceeding forty-eight hours and is not forthwith dismissed or
removed or compulsorily retired consequent to such conviction.

Question 11

suspension made or deemed to have

been made shall not be valid after a period of

Answer 11

90 days

Question 12

Extension of suspension shall not be for a period exceeding

Answer 12

one hundred and eighty days at a time.180 days

Question 13

rule 6

Answer 13

Penalities

Question 14

Minor Penalties -

Answer 14

(i) Censure;
(ii) Withholding of his promotion for a specified period
(iii) Recovery from his pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused by him to the Government or Railway Administration by negligence or breach of orders;
(iii-a) Withholding of the Privilege Passes or Privilege Ticket Orders or both;
(iii-b) Reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay by one stage for a period not exceeding three
years, without cumulative effect and not adversely affecting his pension;
(iv) Withholding of increments of pay for a specified period with further directions as to whether on
the expiry of such period this will or will not have the effect of postponing the future increments
of his pay

Question 15

Major Penalties -in collision of Railway trains

Answer 15

(viii) Removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment under the
Government or Railway Administration;
(ix) Dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under
the Government or Railway Administration:

Question 16

Major penalties-In cases of passing Railway signals at danger

Answer 16

reduction to a lower stage in the time-scale of pay for a
specified period,
with further directions as to whether on the expiry of such period, the reduction
will or will not have the effect of postponing the future increments of his pay.
Dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under
the Government or Railway Administration

Question 17

Major Penalties:
possessing assets disproportionate to
known sources of income or found guilty of having accepted or having obtained from any person any
gratification,

Answer 17

(viii) Removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment under the
Government or Railway Administration;
(ix) Dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for future employment under
the Government or Railway Administration:

Question 18

Disciplinary Authorities -

Answer 18

rule 7

Question 19

rule 8

Answer 19

Authority to Institute Proceedings