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Duty Pass Rules

Metal passes, card passes and cheque passes

  1. Gold Pass: the PDF says it is allotted to Railway Board Chairman and Members and Zonal General Managers, and is valid for family travel in 1AC across networks.
  2. Silver Pass: the PDF says it is issued to Senior Administrative Grade (SAG) officers for official travel in 1AC.
  3. Bronze Pass: the PDF says it is issued to Junior and Senior Scale officers for duty travel within their zonal jurisdiction.
  4. Card Passes: stated to be valid for 1 year and issued to non-gazetted operational personnel such as TTEs, Train Guards, Loco Pilots and Track Maintainers for repeated movement within their duty sections.
  5. Cheque Passes: described as single-use temporary passes for specified official trips, medical examinations, inquiry attendance or shifting household goods on official transfer.

Source: Railway_Pass_and_PTO_Rules_Final.pdf, pages 1–2. This reflects the uploaded PDF and is not an independently verified statement of current rules.