The ministry of railways has cleared a proposal to bring pensioners under the jurisdiction of the department of pension and pensioners’ welfare (DOP&PW), documents accessed by HT show.
The government nod means pension rules that govern all former central government employees will also be applicable to railways officials. Till now, because of the department’s organisational structure, pensions were governed by the Railway Service (Pension) Rules, 1993, administered by the rail ministry and not DoP&PW so far.
Although the two sets of rules have commonalities, due to the different organisational structure of the railways, additional rules are applicable for the pensioners.
