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Rail Board for reducing duty hours of drivers Reducing duty hours of mail/express train drivers to six hours (they encounter a signal every minute on an average) to monitoring the crew on his first trip after having availed rest (since most of the signal-jumping cases have occurred after the train drivers have availed headquarter rest) are among the suggestions that came up during a recent meeting on SPAD (signal passed at danger) convened by the Railway Board. The meeting was attended by chief mechanical engineers of all zonal railways and one mechanical loco inspector from each division and was addressed by Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal and other high officials. The meeting followed the recent spate of train accidents including the one involving the Hampi Express on May 22 leading to the loss of 25 lives. Pressure has also been mounted on the Railway Ministry by the All-India Loco Running Staff Association (AILRSA) for improving safety measures in view of the frequen

History of Central Pay Commissions  C Sunish History of Central Pay Commissions Government of India have set up six pay commissions to review and recommend wage structure for all civil and military divisions including Railways.  These Pay commissions examine various issues such as pay and allowances, retirement benefits, conditions of service. promotion policies. Etc, and submit recommendations.  As Fifth Pay Commission observed “Pay Commission is a peculiarly Indian institution”.  Pay scales existed before the advent of Pay Commissions was the 1934 Scales. First Commission scales (known as ‘Prescribed Scales”) replaced the 1934 Scales. First Pay Commission :  The first pay commission was constituted in 1946 with Srinivasa Varadacharia as Chairman.  The commission’s recommendations were based upon the idea of “living wages” to the employees.  The commission simplified the wage structure of Railway employees and number of scales was reduced to 30.

RESULT OF SECRET BALLOT ELECTIONS, INDIAN RAILWAYS (25,26 &27 APRIL 2013)   Sl No Railway Total voters Votes polled % of votes AIRF % of votes NFIR % of votes I st position 2 nd position 1 CR 105157   89258 84.88 42556 47.68 32467 36.37 AIRF NFIR 2 ECR   73504   59352 80.75 23612 39.78 16919 28.51 AIRF  ----- 3 ECoR   40310   34438 85.43 14198 40.77 12367 35.52 AIRF NFIR 4 ER 108859   91848 84.37 42537 45.65 33102 35.52 AIRF NFIR 5 NCR   65090   56021 86.07 22337 39.87 31830 56.82 NFIR AIRF 6 NER   53293   45256 84.92 20509 45.49   5413 11.96 AIRF ------ 7 NWR   49526   45695 92.26 20931 45.81 18610 40.72 AIRF NFIR 8 NFR   61003   53994 88.51 24148 44.81 28616 53.10 NFIR AIRF 9 NR 139711 123928 88.70 57307 45.94 53259 42.70 AIRF NFIR 10 SCR