HRA of Railway Employees revised based on census 2011

HRA of Railway Employees have been revised on the basis of re-classification of cities as per census 2011 – and towns on the basis of 2011 Census in to X, Y and Z Categories for grant of House Rent Allowance to Railway Employees
Ministry of Railways has re-classified the following cities from “Z” Category to “Y” Category for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance, on the basis of re-classification of cities as per Census 2011.

City	Present Status	Status after re-classification	Present HRA rate	Revised HRA Rate
Nellore (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Gurgaon(UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Bokaro Steel City (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Gulbarga (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Thrissur (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Malappuram (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Kannur(UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Kollam (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Ujjain (M. Coprn.)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Vasai-Virar City (M. Corpn.)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Malegaon (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Nanded-Waghala (M.Corp.)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Sangli (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Raurkela (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Ajmer (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Erode (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Noida (CT)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Firozabad (NPP)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Jhansi (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Siliguri (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%
Durgapur (UA)	Z	Y	10%	20%

Railway Board has upgraded Pune and Ahmedabad Cities to “X” category from Y category as these cities nhave exceeded 50 lakh population mark as per Census 2011. HRA to an extent of 30% would be applicable to all Railway Employees, who have been posted in these cities.

Railway Board Order incorporating all these changes is given below.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(RAILWAY BOARD)

RBE No.116/2015

No. E(P&A) II-2015/HRA-7

New Delhi, dated 24-09-2015

The General Managers/CAOs,

All Indian Railways & Prod. Units etc.

Sub: Re-classification of cities/towns on the basis of 2011 Census grant of House Rent Allowance to Railway Employees.

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Attention is invited to Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 12-09-2008 relating to grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway employees on the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission whereby a list of cities/towns classified as X, Y and Z for the purpose of grant of HRA was enclosed as Annexure. The matter relating to re-classification of cities/towns on the basis of Census-2011 for the purpose of grant of HRA to Central Government employees has been considered by the Government.

2. The President is pleased to decide that in supersession of all the existing orders relating to classification of cities/towns for the purposes of grant of HRA to Railway employees, cities/towns shall now be re-classified as X, Y and Z for the purpose of HRA as enumerated in the Annexure to these orders

3. Consequent upon implementation of the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission, certain cities/towns were placed in a lower classification as compared to their existing classification for CCA/HRA purpose, vide Boards letter No.PC-V/97/I/7/13 dated 16.10.1997. However, these cities/towns were allowed to retain their existing higher classification, vide para 3 thereof; and further extended vide Boards letter No.E(P&A)II-2004/HRA-16 dated 17.05.2005 & Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 20.03.2009. As other cities/towns to which protection of retaining earlier higher classification was allowed, got upgraded during the intervening period, as on date only two cities i.e. Ajmer in Rajasthan and Durgapur in West Bengal were retaining such protection. Consequent upon upgradation of these two cities also on the basis of their population as per Census-2011, provisions contained in Para 3, of vide Boards letter No. PC-V/97/I/7/13 dated 16.10.1997 which were allowed to further continue vide Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2004/HRA-16 dated 17.05.2005 & Boards letter No. E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 20.03.2009 stand withdrawn/ discontinued.

4. Special orders allowing continuance of HRA (a) at Delhi (“X” class city) rates to Railway employees posted at Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NOIDA, Gurgaon and (b) at Jalandhar (“Y” class city) rates to Jalandhar Cantt. and (c) at “Y” class city rates to Shillong, Goa, Port Blair vide Boards letter No.E(P&A)Il-2008/HRA-10 dated 12.09.2008 and (d) continuance of HRA at par with Chandigarh (“Y” class city) to Panchkula vide Boards letter No.E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 16.05.2011, shall continue to be applicable till the recommendations of 7th CPC are considered by the Government

5. These orders shall be effective from 01.04.2015

6. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

( Salim Md. Ahmad )

Deputy Director/E(P&A)II,

Railway Board.

ANNEXURE

To Boards letter no.E(P&A)II-2015/HRA-7 dt.24.09.2015

LIST OF CITIES/TOWNS CLASSIFIED FOR GRANT OF
HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES

S.NO	States/Union Territoris	Cities Classified As ‘X’	Cities Classified as ‘Y’
1	ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS
2	ANDHRA PRADESH/TELANGANA	Hyderabad (UA)	Vijayawada (UV), Warangal (UA), Greater Visakhapatnam (M.Corpn.), Guntur (UA), Nellore (UA)
3	ARUNACHAL PRADESH
4	ASSAM		Guwahati (UA)
5	BIHAR		Patna (UA)
6	CHANDIGARH		Chandigarh (UA)
7	CHATTISGARH		Durg-Bhilai Nagar (UA), Raipur (UA)
8	DADRA & NAGARHAVELI
9	DAMAN & DIU
10	DELHI	Delhi (UA)
11	GOA
12	GUJARAT		Rajkot(UA), Jamnagar(UA), Bhavnagar(UA), Vadodara(UA), Surat(UA)
13	HARYANA		Faridabad* (M.Corpn.) Gurgaon*(UA)
14	HIMACHALPRADESH
15	JAMMU & KASHMIR		Srinagar(UA), Jammu(UA)
16	JHARKHAND		Jamshedpur(UA), Dhanbad(UA), Ranchi(UA), Bokaro Steel City (UA)
17	KARNATAKA	Bangalore/Bengaluru (UA)	Belgaum(UA), Hubli-Dharwad(M.Corpn), Mangalore(UA), Mysore(UA), Gulbarga(UA)
18	KERALA		Kozhikoda(UA), Kochi(UA), Thiruvanathapuram (UA), Thrissur(UA), Malappuram(UA), Kannur(UA), Kollam (UA)
19	LAKSHADWEEP
20	MADHYAPRADESH		Gwalior(UA), Indore(UA), Bhopal(UA), Jabaipur(UA), Ujjain(M.Corpn)
21	MAHARASHTRA	Greater Mumbai (UA), Pune (UA)	Amravati(M.corpn), Nagpur(UA), Aurangabad(UA), Nashik(UA), Bhiwandi(UA), Solapur(M.Corpn), Kolhapur(UA), Vasaivirar city (M.Corpn), Malegaon(UA), Nandad-Waghala(M.Corpn), Sangli(UA)
22	MANIPUR
23	MEGHALAYA
24	MIZORAM
25	NAGALAND
26	ODISH		Cuttack(UA), Bhubaneswar(UA), Raurkela(UA)
27	PUDUCHERRY		Puducherry/ Podicherry(UA)
28	PUNJAB		Amritsar(UA), Jalandhar(UA), Ludhiana(M.Coprn)
29	RAJASTHAN		Bikaner(M.Corpn), Jaipur(M.Corpn), Jodhpur(UA), Kota(M.corpn),Ajmer(UA)
30	SIKKIM
31	TAMIL NADU	Chennai (UA)	Salem(UA), Tiruppur(UA), Coimbatore(UA), Tiruchirappalli(UA), Madurai(UA), Erode(UA)
32	TRIPURA
33	UTTAR PRADESH		Moradabad(M.corpn), Meerut(UA), Ghaziabad*(UA), Aligarh(UA), Agra(UA), Barcilly(UA),Lucknow(UA), Kanpur(UA), Allahabad(UA), Gorakhpur(UA, Varanasi(UA), Saharanpur(M.Corpn), Nodia*(CT), Firozabad(NPP),Jhansi(UA)