Pass Rules

Types
Applicability
 Kinds of passes
1. Duty Passes
a) Metal Pass
b) Card Pass
c) Cheque Pass
2. Privilege Pass
3. School Pass
4. Post retirement Pass
5. Residential Card Pass
6. Special Pass
 Duty Pass
To perform journey while on duty.
a) Metal Pass:
b) i) Gold Pass: Issued by Railway Board to;
c) Chairman - Railway Board,
d) Financial commissioner,
e) Members of Railway Board,
f) GMs’ of Indian Railways & Production units and
g) Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety.

It entitles the holder to travel over Indian Railways

with family members in First AC
 Duty Pass

Metal Pass:
ii) Silver Pass: Issued by Railway Board to;
All Senior Administrative Grade Officers,

It entitles the holder to travel over Indian

Railways with family members in First AC
 Duty Pass

Metal Pass:
ii) Bronze Pass: Issued by Zonal Railways
to the Officer of the Zonal Railways.

It entitles the holder to travel in the Zonal

Railway jurisdiction.
 Duty Pass

Card Pass:
Issued to all Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ employees who
are required to travel frequently.
The class of the pass is as per the eligibility
in the Privilege account.
Cheque Pass:
Issued to the staff to travel on duty
occasionally.
 Privilege Pass

Issued to all serving employees.

Group ‘A’ & ‘B’:
• First A Pass is issued to the Officer.
• White in colour.
• Entitled for 6 sets passes & 4 sets of PTOs’
per year.
• One attendant is permitted to travel in II
class.
 Privilege Pass

Group ‘C’ :
• One set of pass for first 5 years of service.
• 3 sets per year after 5 years of service.
• Those in 6500-10500 drawing a basic of Rs.7600
or above entitled for 1st Class pass (Green Colour).
• Those in scale of pay of Rs.5000-8000 and above
drawing a basic of Rs.7250 or above but less than
Rs.7600 are entitled for II A passes (Yellow
colour). Entitled to travel in III AC.
• All others will be issued with II class (Pink colour)
 Privilege Pass

Group ‘D’ :
• One set of pass for first 5 years of service.
• 3 sets per year after 5 years of service.
• Entitled for IInd Sleeper class.
 Dependents:

Dependents:
• Widow mother, unmarried sister, scholar brother,
widow sister etc are called as dependents.
• If included in the pass, maximum number of
persons permitted to be included in the pass are
5.
• Son of above 21 years can be permitted to be
included if he is a bonafide student of a
recognised educational institution.
 Validity:

• The validity period of the privilege pass is 5

months for both onward & return journey.
• If husband & wife are both employed in
railways, passes are granted to both of
them on each others account.
 School Pass

• Issued to the ward or dependent student member

of the family.
• Should produce certificate from school or college
authorities.
• Issued when the student is studying away from
the headquarters of the railway servant.
• Issued from the place of the institution to the
place of the residence of either of the parent
when the vacation is more than 3 days.
• 3 sets of passes are issued to every child in a
calendar year.
• A parent or guardian may be included in the pass.
 Post Retirement Pass

• Issued to the employee and his family after

his retirement from service.
• The class of pass is the class which he was
enjoying while in service.
• The No of passes entitled depends on the
number of completed years of service.
 Post Retirement Pass

Years of service Group Group Group

A&B C D

20 years of service and 2 sets 1 set 1 set

more and less than 25 per
years of service annum
25 years and above 3 sets 2 sets 1 set
per
annum
 Residential Card Pass

• Issued to the employee to commute to

the place of work from the residence.
• The section in which the pass could be
issued is declared by the railway board.
• No attendant is allowed in RC Pass.
 Special Passes

• May be Issued to the family members or

dependent relatives on;
• medical ground,
• for scouts activities,
• on sports account,
• to attend courts,
• to attend enquiry,
• to attend PNM/FNM meeting as a member of
the union,
• to staff of co-op societies/banks,,
• to coolie porters.