The Ministry of Railways, on November 14, 2025, issued the Railway Services (Payment of Gratuity under National Pension System) Rules, 2025.
• Application - 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.
• Definitions –
o “Government” means the Central Government;
o “gratuity” includes retirement gratuity and death gratuity payable under these rules;
o “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;
• Regulation of claims to gratuity. - (1) Any claim to gratuity shall be regulated by the provisions of these rules in force at the time when a railway servant retires or is retired or is discharged or is allowed to resign from service or dies, as the case may be.
Please refer to the document attached below for more details.
[G.S.R. 852(E).]
