Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025: RBE No. 121/2025

Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025: Railway Board RBE No. 121/2025 dated 28.11.2025

RBE No.121/2025.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (BHARAT SARKAR)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAIL MANTRALAYA)
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.D-43/23/2021-F(E)III

New Delhi, dated: 28.11.2025.

The General Managers/Principal Financial Advisors,
All Zonal Railways/Production Units etc,
DGs of RDSO and NAIR.

Subject:- Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025.

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The Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025 have been notified in the Gazette of India vide G.S.R. 852(E) dated 14th November, 2025. A copy of the same is enclosed for information, guidance and compliance.

2. Please acknowledge receipt.

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

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(Railway Board)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 14th November, 2025

G.S.R. 852(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 ofthe Constitution, the President hereby makes the following rules, namely:-

CHAPTER I

1. Short title and commencement.– (1) These rules may be called the Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 2004.

2. Application.– Save as otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall apply to the railway servant appointed substantively to railway services on or after the 1st day of January, 2004, and to whom the Railway Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2025 apply :

Provided that in the case of a railway servant who dies during service or is boarded out on account of disablement or retires on invalidation and who had exercised option under rule 10 of the Railway Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2025 for availing benefits under the Railway Services (Pension) Rules, 1993 or the Railway Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1993, payment of gratuity shall be made in accordance with the said rules.

3. Definitions. – (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, –

(a) “Accounts Officer” means a Principal Financial Advisor of a Railway or such other Officers as may be appointed in this behalf by the Railway Board;

(b) “allottee” means a railway servant to whom railway or Government accommodation has been allotted on payment of license fee or otherwise;

(c) “average emoluments” means average emoluments as determined in accordance with rule 7;

(d) “Code” means the Indian Railway Establishment Code;

(e) “Emoluments” means emoluments referred to in rule 6;

(f) “Form” means a Form appended to these rules ;

(g) “Government” means the Central Government ;

(h) “Government dues” means dues referred to in rule 45;

(i) “gratuity” includes retirement gratuity and death gratuity payable under these rules;

(j) “Head of office” means a Gazetted Officer whom the appointing authority may, by order declare as Head of office and includes such other authority or person whom the appointing authority may specify in the like manner;

(k) “Minor” means a person who has not completed the age of eighteen years;

(l) “qualifying service” means the service rendered while on duty or otherwise which shall be taken into account for the purpose of payment of gratuity admissible under these rules;

(m) “railway servant” means a person who is a member of a railway service or holds a post under the administrative control of the Railway Board and includes a person who is holding the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Member (Finance) or a Member of the Railway Board, it does not include casual labour or person lent from a service or post which is not under the administrative control of the Railway Board to a service or post which is under such administrative control; and

(n) ‘Service Book’ is a document (either in physical or electronic form) containing record of service including service roll, if any.

(2) The words and expressions used herein and not defined, but defined in the Code or the Railway Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2025, shall have the same meanings as respectively assigned to them in those rules.