Railway Board’s Order on House Rent Allowance (HRA) as per 7th CPC – RBE 71-2017

Railway Board has issued RBE 71-2017 vide S. No. PC-VII/24 and letter no. E(P&A)II-2017/HRA-7 dated 19.07.2017 on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission relating to grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway Employees.

Details of Railway Board Circular RBE 71-2017

Subject:- Decision of the Government on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission relating to grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway employees.

Consequent upon the decision taken by the Government on the recommendations of the Seventh Central Pay Commission relating to House Rent Allowance (HRA), the President is pleased to decide that in modification of Railway Board’s letter No. PC-65/HRA-1/3 dated 21.7.1965 as amended from time to time, letter No. E(P&A)II-2008/HRA-10 dated 12.09.2008 and letter No. E(P&A)TI-2015/HRA-7 dated 24.09.2015, the admissibility of HRA shall be as under:-

Classification of Cities/TownsRate of House Rent Allowance per month as a percentage of Basic pay only
X24%
Y16%
Z8%
  1. The rates of HRA will not be less than~ 5400/-, 3600/- and 1800/- at ‘X’, ‘Y’ & ‘Z’ class cities respectively.
  2. The rates of HRA will be revised to 27%, 18% and 9% for ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ class cities respectively when Dearness Allowance (DA) crosses 25% and further revised to 30%, 20% and 1 0% when DA crosses 50%.
  3. The tenn “basic pay” in the revised pay structure means the pay drawn in the prescribed pay levels in the Pay Matrix and does not include Non-Practising Allowance (NP A) etc. or any other type of pay like special pay, etc.
  4. In the case of running staff HRA will continue to be calculated on the basic pay plus 30% pay element till further orders.
  5. The list of cities classified as ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ issued vide Board’s letter No. E(P&A)IT-2015/HRA-7 dated 24.09.2015, for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance is enclosed as Annexure to these orders.
  6. Special orders on continuance of HRA at Delhi (‘X’ class city) rates to railway employees posted at Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NOIDA and Gurgaon, at Jalandhar (‘Y’ class city) rates to Jalandhar Cantt., at ‘Y’ class city rates to Shillong, Goa & Port Blair and HRA at par with Chandigarh (‘Y’ class city) to Panchkula which have been allowed to continue vide Para ‘4’ of this Ministry’s letter No. E(P&A) II-2015/HRA-7 dated 24.09.2015 and S.A.S Nagar (Mohali) at par with Chandigarh (‘Y’ class city) vide Ministry’s letter No. E(P&A)II-2015/HRA-7 dated 12.05.2017, shall continue till further orders.
  7. All other conditions governing grant of HRA under existing orders shall continue to apply.
  8. These order shall be effective from 1st July, 2017.
  9. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

LIST OF CITIES/TOWNS CLASSIFIED FOR GRANT OF HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES (To Board’s letter no. E(P&A)II-2017 /HRA- 7 dt. 19.07.2017)

S.No.States/Union TerritoriesCITIES CLASSIFIED AS “X”

CITIES CLASSIFIED AS “Y”

1.Andaman & Nicobar Islands
2.Andhra Pradesh/ TelanganaHyderabad (UA)Vijayawada (UA), Warangal (UA), Greater Visakhapatnam (M.Corpn.), Guntur (UA), Nellore (UA).
3.Arunachal Pradesh
4.AssamGuwahati (UA).
5.BiharPatna (UA).
6.ChandigarhChandigarh (UA).
7.ChattisgarhDurg-Bhilai Nagar (UA), Raipur (UA)
8.Dadra & Nagar Haveli
9.Daman & Diu
10.DelhiDelhi (UA)
11.Goa
12.GujaratAhmadabad (UA)Rajkot (UA), Jamnagar (UA), Bhavnagar (UA), Vadodara (UA), Surat (UA)
13HaryanaFaridabad* (M. Corpn.), Gurgaon* (UA).
14.Himachal Pradesh
15Jammu & KashmirSrinagar (UA), Jammu (UA).
16JharkhandJamshedpur (UA), Dhanbad (UA), Ranchi (UA), Bokaro Steel City (UA).
17KarnatakaBangalore/Bengaluru (UA)Belgaum (UA), Hubli-Dharwad (M.Corpn.),   Mangalore (UA), Mysore (UA), Gulbarga (UA).
18Kerala –Kozhikode (UA), Kochi (UA), Thiruvanathapuram (UA), Thrissur (UA), Malappuram (UA), Kannur (UA), Kollam (UA).
19Lakshadweep
20Madhya Pradesh –Gwalior (UA), Indore(UA), Bhopal (UA), Jabalpur (UA), Ujjain (M. Corpn).
21MaharashtraGreater Mumbai (UA), Pune (UA)Amravati (M.Corpn.), Nagpur (UA), Aurangabad (UA), Nashik (UA), Bhiwandi (UA),  Solapur (M. Corpn.), Kolhapur (UA), Vasai- Virar City (M.Corpn.), Malegaon (UA), Nanded-Waghala (M. Corpn.), Sangli (UA)
22Manipur
23.Meghalaya
24.Mizoram
25.Nagaland
26.OdishaCuttack (UA),  Bhubaneswar (UA),  Raurkela  (UA).
27.Puducherry (Pondicherry)Puducherry/Pondicherry (UA).
28.PunjabAmritsar (UA),  Jalandhar (UA), Ludhiana  (M.Coprn).
29.RajasthanBikaner  (M. Corpn.),  Jaipur  (M. Corpn.), Jodhpur (UA),  Kota (M.Corpn.), Ajmer  (UA).
30.Sikkim
31.TamilnaduChennai  (UA)Salem (UA), Tiruppur (UA), Coimbatore (UA),  Tiruchirappalli(UA),  Madurai  (UA),  Erode (UA).
32.Trip ura
33.Uttar pradeshMoradabad  (M. Corpn.),  Meerut(UA),  Ghaziabad*(UA),    Aligarh(UA),  Agra (UA),  Bareilly  (UA), Lucknow  (UA),  Kanpur  (UA), Allahabad  (UA),  Gorakhpur(UA),  Varanasi  (UA),  Saharanpur(M. Corpn.),  Noida*  (CT), Firozabad  (NPP),  Jhansi  (UA).
34.UttarakhandDehradun (UA).
35.West  BengalKolkata  (UA)Asansol (UA),  Siliguri (UA), Durgapur(UA).

Signed Copy of RBE 71-2017 is attached here:



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  1. ONE OF MY FRIEND WORKING AS KHALSI IN RAILWAYS HE GOT INTER DIVISIONAL TRANSFER . HE VACATED RLY QUARTERS AT EX STATION AND JOINED AT NEW DIVISION .HRA IS NOT PAID TO THE PERSON SINCE THE VACATED QUATERS NOT ALLOTED TO ANY ONE .THE PERSONNEL BRANCH CLARKS STATES THAT IF THE QUARTERS ALLOTED TO ANY ONE AT OLD STATION THEN ONLY HRA IS AADMISSAL TO HIM . NEED RULE POSO=ITION

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