Railway Board lists documents needed to avail travel passes for dependents of employees

The Railway Board has standardised the documents its employees need to avail privileged passes or privileged ticket orders PTO for their family members or dependentsIn a letter circulated to all the zones on November 2 the board said Pass Issuing Authorities PIA are advised to demand only the documents as stipulated in Annexure and not insist on production of other documents which might have been in use in the pastIt has also clarified that the existing cases where the eligibility of beneficiaries already stand settled need not be reviewed by calling for documents stipulated nowBesides the standardisation of documents the boards letter has also clarified as to who all can avail the benefits of free passes as the relative or dependent of a railway employeeAccording to the letter besides close family members a railway employee can include his or her dependents such as an adult son widowed or legally divorced daughter adopted child widowed or divorced mother among others in the list of beneficiariesA railway employee gets free travel passes for hisher entire family which include his wife and children irrespective of the number of children However when he or she wants to include a dependent in the list of beneficiaries the Railway restricts the benefits to only five individuals from the family an railway official saidHe added There was a lot of ambiguity for the production of documents and the concerned officers in the various railway divisions used to demand documents on their whims and fancies It caused inconvenience to employees and many of them were denied these benefitsThe Railway Board digitised the process of issuance of privileged passes however there was no clear instruction regarding the production of documents to avail the benefits Several employees wrote to the board and demanded clarity on thisEven the employees union and its federations drew the boards attention towards the issue after which it asked all the stakeholders to share their suggestionsThe boards annexure has 28 columns and three rows mentioning relatives who can be declared the dependents of a railway employee for the purpose of travel and the types of documents he or she needs to upload in each caseFor instance if an employee wants to include his or her unmarried sister in the list of beneficiaries for privileged pass the document required would be her birth or school certificate Similar documents are needed to include a son below the age of 21 and wholly dependentHowever if the son is a student and 21 years old or above his Bonafide Student Certificate BSC and Dependency Declaration are required to avail the benefits of privileged passesThe board has also cautioned that incorrect declarationsuppression of information if detected will result in deterrent punishment to railway employees and forfeiture of pass facility in other casesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever