Minor & Major Penalties under DAR - Short Note

Minor & Major Penalties under DAR

The discipline and Appeal Rules which are called “Railway Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1968”, apply to all Railway servants except casual labor, members of Railway Protection Force & Members of All India Services. 

Minor Penalties:-

i) Censure 

ii) With-holding of privilege Passes or Privilege Ticket order or both. 

iii) With – holding of promotion for a specified period. 

iv) Recovery from pay for any pecuniary loss caused to Govt. or Railway administration by negligence or breach of orders.

v) Withholding of increment of pay for a specified period with or without cumulative effect.

vi) Reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay for a period not exceeding 3 years without cumulative effect and not adversely affecting the pension.

Major Penalties:- 

vii) Reduction to a lower stage in the time scale of pay other than(vi) above

viii) Reduction to a lower time scale of pay, grade, post or service. 

ix) Compulsory retirement 

x) Removal from service.

xi) Dismissal from service.