After this order, retired employees will get three thousand rupees in a month and 36 thousand rupees annually for treatment in OPD.
There is good news for railway employees- pensioners. Railways has given a big gift to retired railway employees, under this, retired railway employees will get the benefit of free treatment along with OPD allowance. Under the order of the Railway Board, now the retired employees will get a monthly OPD allowance of three thousand rupees and will get the benefit of free treatment.
In fact, there was a long standing demand by the railway employees- retired employees that the cost of treatment in OPD should be paid by the railways, so that the employees can get this facility in the nearest hospital after leaving the railway quarters after retirement. Railway has fulfilled this demand before the new year. According to media reports, Railways has sent a letter to all General Managers, in which retired railway employees or women employees taking widow pension, who live two and a half km away from the railway hospital, should be given Instructions have been given to give OPD allowance of Rs 3000 every month.
For this, pensioners and retired employees will have to apply, after which facilities like treatment and medicine in OPD in the railway hospital will be stopped, only in case of serious illness, the facility of free treatment will be available in railway hospital or private hospital. After the order, more than 75 thousand pensioners of Moradabad Railway Division will get the benefit. After this order, retired employees will get three thousand rupees in a month and 36 thousand rupees annually for treatment in OPD.