In a piece of good news for the Indian Railway employees, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved payment of PLB of 78 days for Rs 2009.61 crore to 11,40,770 railway employees, in recognition of the excellent performance by the Railway staff.
Payment of PLB to eligible railway employees is made each year before the Durga Puja/Dusshera holidays. This year also, the PLB amount equivalent to 78 days’ wages is being paid to about 11.40 lakh non-gazetted Railway employees.
The payment of PLB acts as an incentive to motivate the railway employees for working towards improvement in the performance of the Railways.
The maximum amount payable per eligible railway employee is Rs.17,951/- for 78 days. This amount will be paid to various categories, of Railway staff like Track maintainers, Loco Pilots, Train Managers (Guards), Station Masters, Supervisors, Technicians, Technician Helpers, Pointsman, Ministerial staff and other Group ‘C staff.
The Union Cabinet said the performance of Railways in the year 2025-26 was very good and the Railways loaded a record cargo of 1670 million tonnes and carried nearly 7.41 billion passengers.
