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House Rent Allowance of Railway Employees
have been revised on the basis of re-classification of cities as per census
2011 – and towns on the basis of 2011 Census in to X, Y and Z
Categories. Railway Board has issued orders in this respect.
Ministry of Railways has re-classified the following cities from
“Z” Category to “Y” Category for the purpose of grant of House Rent
Allowance, on the basis of re-classification of cities as per Census
2011.
City
|
Present Status
|
Status after re-classification
|
Present HRA Rate
|
Revised HRA Rate
|
Nellore (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Gurgaon (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Bokaro Steel City (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Gulbarga (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Thrissur (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Malappuram (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Kannur(UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Kollam (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Ujjain (M. Coprn.)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Vasai-Virar City (M. Corpn.)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Malegaon (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Nanded-Waghala (M.Corp.)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Sangli (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Raurkela (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Ajmer (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Erode (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Noida (CT)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Firozabad (NPP)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Jhansi (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Siliguri (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Durgapur (UA)
|
Z
|
Y
|
10%
|
20%
|
Railway Board has upgraded Pune and Ahmedabad Cities to “X”
category from Y category as these cities nhave exceeded 50 lakh
population mark as per Census 2011. HRA to an extent of 30% would be
applicable to all Railway Employees, who have been posted in these cities.
Railway Board Order incorporating all these changes is given
below.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)
RBE No.116/2015
No. E(P&A)
II-2015/HRA-7
New Delhi, dated 24-09-2015
The General
Managers/CAOs,
All Indian Railways
& Prod. Units etc.
Sub:
Re-classification of cities/towns on the basis of 2011 Census grant of House
Rent Allowance to Railway Employees.
******
Attention is invited to Boards letter No.
E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 12-09-2008 relating to grant ofHouse Rent Allowance
(HRA) to Railway employees on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay
Commission whereby a list of cities/towns classified as X, Y and Z for the
purpose of grant of HRA was enclosed as Annexure. The matter relating to
re-classification of cities/towns on the basis of Census-2011 forthe purpose of
grant of HRA to CentralGovernment employees has been considered by the
Government.
2. The President is pleased to decide that in supersession of
all the existing orders relating to classification of cities/towns for the
purposes of grant of HRA to Railway employees, cities/towns shall now be
re-classified as X, Y and Z for the purpose of HRA as enumerated in the
Annexure to these orders
3. Consequent upon implementation of the recommendations of the
5th Central Pay Commission, certain cities/towns were placed in a lower
classification as compared to their existing classification for CCA/HRA
purpose, vide Boards letter No.PC-V/97/I/7/13 dated 16.10.1997. However, these
cities/towns were allowed to retain their existing higher classification, vide
para 3 thereof; and further extended vide Boards letter
No.E(P&A)II-2004/HRA-16 dated 17.05.2005 & Boards letter No.
E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 20.03.2009. As other cities/towns to which
protection of retaining earlier higher classification was allowed, got upgraded
during the intervening period, as on date only two cities i.e. Ajmer in
Rajasthan and Durgapur in West Bengal were retaining such protection.
Consequent upon upgradation of these two cities also on the basis of their
population as per Census-2011, provisions contained in Para 3, of vide Boards
letter No. PC-V/97/I/7/13 dated 16.10.1997 which were allowed to further
continue vide Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2004/HRA-16 dated 17.05.2005 &
Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 20.03.2009 stand withdrawn/
discontinued.
4. Special orders allowing continuance of HRA (a) at Delhi (“X”
class city) rates to Railway employees posted at Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NOIDA,
Gurgaon and (b) at Jalandhar (“Y” class city) rates to Jalandhar Cantt. and (c)
at “Y” class city rates to Shillong, Goa, Port Blair vide Boards letter
No.E(P&A)Il-2008/HRA-10 dated 12.09.2008 and (d) continuance of HRA at par
with Chandigarh (“Y” class city) to Panchkula vide Boards letter No.E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10
dated 16.05.2011, shall continue to be applicable till the recommendations of
7th CPC are considered by the Government
5. These orders shall be effective from 01.04.2015
6. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate
of the Ministry of Railways.
( Salim Md. Ahmad )
Deputy Director/E(P&A)II,
Railway Board.
ANNEXURE
To Boards letter no.E(P&A)II-2015/HRA-7 dt.24.09.2015
LIST OF CITIES/TOWNS CLASSIFIED FOR GRANT OF
HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES
HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES
SI.No
|
STATES/UNION TERRITORIS
|
CITIES CLASSIFIED
AS “X” |
CITIES CLASSFIED
AS “Y” |
1
|
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS
|
||
2
|
ANDHRA PRADESH/TELANGANA
|
Hyderabad (UA)
|
Vijayawada (UV), Warangal (UA),
Greater Visakhapatnam (M.Corpn.), Guntur (UA), Nellore (UA)
|
3
|
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
|
||
4
|
ASSAM
|
Guwahati (UA)
|
|
5
|
BIHAR
|
Patna (UA)
|
|
6
|
CHANDIGARH
|
Chandigarh (UA)
|
|
7
|
CHATTISGARH
|
Durg-Bhilai Nagar (UA), Raipur (UA)
|
|
8
|
DADRA & NAGARHAVELI
|
||
9
|
DAMAN & DIU
|
||
10
|
DELHI
|
Delhi (UA)
|
|
11
|
GOA
|
||
12
|
GUJARAT
|
Ahmadabad (UA)
|
Rajkot (UA), Jamnagar (UA), Bhavnagar
(UA), Vadodara (UA), Surat (UA)
|
13
|
HARYANA
|
Faridabad* (M.Corpn.) Gurgaon*(UA)
|
|
14
|
HIMACHALPRADESH
|
||
15
|
JAMMU & KASHMIR
|
Srinagar (UA), Jammu(UA)
|
|
16
|
JHARKHAND
|
Jamshedpur (UA), Dhanbad (UA), Ranchi
(UA), Bokaro Steel City (UA).
|
|
17
|
KARNATAKA
|
Bangalore/Bengaluru (UA)
|
Belgaum (UA), Hubli-Dharwad
(M.Corpn.),Mangalore (UA), Mysore (UA), Gulbarga (UA)
|
18
|
KERALA
|
Kozhikoda (UA), Kochi (UA),
Thiruvanathapuram (UA), Thrissur (UA), Malappuram (UA), Kannur (UA), Kollam
(UA)
|
|
19
|
LAKSHADWEEP
|
||
20
|
MADHYAPRADESH
|
Gwalior (UA), Indore(UA), Bhopal
(UA), Jabaipur (UA), Ujjain (M.Corpn).
|
|
21
|
MAHARASHTRA
|
Greater Mumbai (UA), Pune (UA)
|
Amravati (M.corpn.), Nagpur (UA),
Aurangabad (UA), Nashik (UA), Bhiwandi (UA), Solapur (M.Corpn.) Kolhapur
(UA), Vasaivirar city (M.Corpn.), Malegaon (UA), Nandad-Waghala
(M.Corpn.), Sangli (UA).
|
22
|
MANIPUR
|
||
23
|
MEGHALAYA
|
||
24
|
MIZORAM
|
||
25
|
NAGALAND
|
||
26
|
ODISH
|
Cuttack (UA), Bhubaneswar (UA),
Raurkela (UA),
|
|
27
|
PUDUCHERRY (PONDICHERRY)
|
Puducherry/Pondicherry (UA)
|
|
28
|
PUNJAB
|
Amritsar (UA), Jalandhar (UA),
Ludhiana (M.Coprn).
|
|
29
|
RAJASTHAN
|
Bikaner (M.Corpn.), Jaipur (M.Corpn.)
Jodhpur (UA), Kota (M.corpn.), Ajmer (UA)
|
|
30
|
SIKKAM
|
||
31
|
TAMIL NADU
|
Chennai (UA)
|
Salem (UA), Tiruppur (UA), Coimbatore
(UA), Tiruchirappalli (UA), Madurai (UA), Erode (UA).
|
32
|
TRIPURA
|
||
33
|
UTTAR PRADESH
|
Moradabad (M.corpn.), Meerut (UA),
Ghaziabad* (UA), Aligarh (UA), Agra (UA), Barcilly (UA), Lucknow (UA), Kanpur
(UA), Allahabad (UA), Gorakhpur (UA), Varanasi (UA), Saharanpur (M.Corpn.),
Noida* (CT), Firozabad (NPP), Jhansi (UA),
|
Download:- Railway Board Orders on House Rent of Railway Employees has been revised
on the basis of Census 2011
Source :Govemployees.in
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