Recovery of wrongful/excess payments made to Government Servants: Railway Board Order dated 17.11.2022

Recovery of wrongful/excess payments made to Government Servants: Railway Board Order RBE No. 154/2022 dated 17.11.2022

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAILWAY BOARD

RBE No. 154/2022

No. 2022/F(E)II/6/3

dated 17.11.2022

The General Manager
All Indian Railways and Production Units oo
(As per standard list)

Sub: Recovery of wrongful/excess payments made to Government Servants—reg.

Instructions/Guidelines on recovery of wrongful/excess payments made to Government Servants were issued by DoP&T vide their OM No. 18/26/2011-Estt(Pay-]) dated 06.02.2014 and OM No. 18/03/2015-Estt.(Pay-I) dated 02.03.2016 which were adopted/circulated on the Railways vide Board’s letter No. 2016/F(E)I/6/3 dated 22.06.2016.

2. Now, DoP&T, in consultation with Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure), have issued certain instructions vide their OM No. 18/3/2015 -Estt(Pay-I) dated 03.10.2022 on the above subject. These instructions shall apply mutatis-mutandis to Railway employees also.

3. Please acknowledge receipt.

(G. Priya Sudarsani)
Director, Finance(Estt.)
Railway Board

Source: Indian Railways

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