Running Allowance:

Running Allowance

·         Running allowance is an allowance granted to running staff for the performance of duty directly connected with the charge of moving trains and includes “Kilometreage allowance” or “Allowance in lieu of Kilometreage” but excludes special compensatory allowances. This allowance is paid on the Kilometreage basis calculated at the rates specified per hundred kilometers.

·         When running staff are put to officiate in a “running” post for 30 days or less, they will be paid pay in lower grade plus running allowance at the rates applicable to the higher grade in which they officiate enhanced by 15%

·         Running Allowance shall be admissible to the Loco Inspectors drawn from the loco running staff for the performance of duties directly connected with the training and monitoring of loco running staff on foot plate.

·         Running staff drawing running allowance are not entitled to traveling allowance

·         Kilometrage  shall  be  calculated  as per the  distance       shown  in  the  Working  Time  Tables

Existing Mileage  Rates:

Category	GP	Rate of RA As per RBE 202/2008 01.09.2008	Rate of RA wef 01.01.2011	Rate of RA enhanced wef 01.01.2014
LP Mail	4200	170	212.50	255.00
LPP	4200	169	211.25	254.00
LPG	4200	168	210.00	253.00
LPS I	4200	130	162.50	195.00
LPS II	2400	126	157.50	189.00
Sr ALP	2400	126/81(Shg)	157.50/101.25	189/121.50
ALP	1900	121/78(Shg)	151.25/97.50	181.50/117
Mail GD	4200	154	192.50	231.00
Pass GD	4200	153	191.25	229.50
Sr Gds GD	4200	152	190.00	228.00
Gds GD	2800	151	188.75	226.50
SrAsst GD	2400	090	112.50	135.00
Asst GD	1900	086	107.50	129.00

30% pay of a running staff will be reckoned as pay element of Running Allowance in following cases:

• Entitlement of Passes/PTOs.
• Fixation of Pay in Stationary posts.
• HRA.
• Entitlement of Quarters.
• Recovery of Quarters Rent.
• DA.
• Overtime Allowance.
• Leave Salary.
• Medical Attendance and treatment.
• Reimbursement of Tution Fee.
• Children Educaton Allowance and Subsidised hostels.
• 30% of actual Running Allowance will be taken for Income Tax.

What Should be our mileage as per RAC 1980 ?

RAC1980 identified two elements in running allowance, ie. Pay element and TA element and somehow quantified them through some guess work. RAC 1980 derived a methodology (formula) to calculate rate of Running Allowance. Accordingly revision of running allowance was done for the past two decades based on the RAC1980 formula. Despite our disputes over various factors we principally accept the RAC1980 methodology.

After 6^th CPC, Railways constituted a committee under the Chairmanship of Adv(IR) along with five Railway Bd Officials and two General Secretaries of NFIR and AIRF. It has submitted its recommendation on 25.11.2008. The committee vide Para14, assumed that the TA / DA rate at Rs. 210/-, and took the minimum of pay band (PB2) and calculated rate of running allowance as Rs 160/- per 100 kms but subsequently  TA / DA has been released fixing Rs. 340/- for the grade pay of Rs. 4200/-.  So instead of Rs. 210 an amount of Rs. 340 should have been taken as TA for fixing the running allowance rate.  In the case of Assistant Loco Pilots the increase in TA rates is from Rs. 55 to Rs.210 i.e, 3.81 times. Therefore the recommendation of the committee on Running Allowance to double the rate w.e.f 01.09.2008 is unjust.

RAC 1980 Formula

(30 % of Mean Pay of Passenger LP+ 20 Days TA)/National  Average KM x 100

Application of RAC-1980 formula with 20 days TA and 4700 / 3725 km for LP / ALP, the rate from 01.01.2006 to 31.08.2008, w.e.f 01.09.2008,and w.e.f 01.01.2011

	LOCO PILOT	ASST. LOCO PILOT
Basic Pay	(9300 + 34800) / 2 + 4200	* ( 5830 +20200) / 2 + 1900
Mean Pay	26250	14915
30% of Pay element	7875	4475
Old TA rates	105	55
National average km	4700	3725
Mileage rate with old TA rate w.e.f 01.01.2006	(7875 +(105 X 20)) /4700 ) 100 = 212.23	(4475 + (55 X 20)) / 3725 ) 100 =   149.66
New TA rates	340	210
Mileage rate with new TA   w.e.f 01.09.2008	(7875 +(340 X 20) / 4700 ) X 100 = 312.23	(4475 + (210 X 20) / 3725 )X 100=      232.89
New TA rate after DA 51%	425	262.5
Mileage rate with new TA        w.e.f 01.01.2011	(7875+(425 X 20))/ 4700 X 100 = 348	(4475 + (262.5 X 20)) / 3725) X 100= 261

*entry pay for ALPs