Along with providing facilities to its passengers, Indian Railways also takes care of its employees. Now with the start of the festive season, the central government has given good news to crores of railway employees.
The bonus for railway employees has been approved in the cabinet meeting of the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi held on October 3, 2024.
Ashwini Vaishnav gave information about the bonus of railway employees . Ashwini Vaishnav said that the cabinet has approved the bonus for railway employees. It has been decided to give a total bonus of 78 days to the employee. A total of 11,72,240 employees will benefit from this decision. Out of these, the process of recruitment of 58,642 employees is currently underway.
How much bonus will the employees get
Indian Railways’ performance was good, after which the employees are being given bonuses. The government is giving a bonus of Rs 2029 crore. Employees will get 78 days’ bonus. 11 crore employees will benefit from this. Every railway employee will get a maximum bonus of Rs 17,951.
These employees will benefit
All categories of employees of Indian Railways will benefit from the bonus. This includes track maintainers, loco pilots, train managers (guards), station masters, supervisors, technicians, technician helpers, group C staff, points men, ministerial staff, etc.
Let us tell you that every year Indian Railways announces Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) before Durga Puja/Dussehra festivals. This year also, bonus has been announced for railway employees on the first day of Navratri.
