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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-23062025-264053
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (i)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2025/ASADHA 2, 1947
MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 19th June, 2025.
G.S.R. 402(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (iii) of sub-section (2) of section
56 and clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 100 read with sub-section (3) of section 53 and section 57 of
the Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002 (60 of 2002), the Central Government hereby
makes the following rules to amend the Metro Railways (Procedure of Claims) Rules, 2017, namely: -
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Metro Railways (Procedure of
Claims) Amendment Rules, 2025.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Metro Railways (Procedure of Claims) Rules, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the principal
rules).-
(1) In rule 17 .-
(a) in sub-rule (2), for the words "four lakh", the words "eight lakh" shall be substituted;
(b) in sub-rule (3), for the words "eighty thousand", the words "one lakh sixty thousand" shall be
substituted.
(2) In rule 18 of the principal rules, for the words “five lakh", the words “eight lakh” shall be substituted.
3. For the Second Schedule of the principal rules, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:-
"The Second Schedule
(see rule 17)
COMPANSATION PAYABLE FOR DEATH AND INJURIES
PART I
+-----+---------------------+---------------+
| Sr. | Nature of Injury | Amount of |
| No. | | Compensation |
| | | (in Rs.) |
+-----+---------------------+---------------+
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
+-----+---------------------+---------------+
| 1. | For death | 8,00,000 |
+-----+---------------------+---------------+
PART II
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Sr. | Nature of Injury | Amount of |
| No. | | Compensation |
| | | (in Rs.) |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| 1. | For loss of both hands or amputation at higher sites | 8,00,000 |
| 2. | For loss of hand and a foot | 8,00,000 |
| 3. | For double amputation through leg or thigh or amputation | 8,00,000 |
| | through leg or thigh on one side and loss of other foot. | |
| 4. | For loss of sight to such an extent as to render the | 8,00,000 |
| | claimant unable to perform any work for which eye sight is | |
| | essential | |
| 5. | For every severe facial disfigurement | 8,00,000 |
| 6. | For absolute deafness | 8,00,000 |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
PART III
+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| Sr. | Nature of Injury | Amount of |
| No. | | Compensation |
| | | (in Rs.) |
+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| (1) | (2) | (3) |
+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------+
| 1. | For amputation through shoulder joint | 7,20,000 |
| 2. | For amputation below shoulder with stump less than 8" from tip of acromion | 6,40,000 |
| 3. | For amputation from 8" from tip of acromion to less than 4½" below olecranon | 5,60,000 |
| 4. | For loss of a hand or the thumb and four fingers of one hand of amputation from | 4,80,000 |
| | 4½" below space tip of olecranon | |
| 5. | For loss of thumb | 2,40,000 |
| 6. | For loss of thumb and its metacarpal bone | 3,20,000 |
| 7. | For loss of four fingers of one hand | 4,00,000 |
| 8. | For loss of three fingers of one hand | 2,40,000 |
| 9. | For loss of two fingers of one hand | 160,000 |
| 10. | For loss of terminal phalanx of thumb | 160,000 |
| 11. | For amputation of both feet resulting in end-bearing stumps | 7,20,000 |
| 12. | For amputation of both feet proximal to the metatarsophalangeal joint | 6,40,000 |
| 13. | For loss of all toes of both feet through the metatarsophalangeal joint | 3,20,000 |
| 14. | For loss of all toes of both feet proximal to the proximal interphalangeal joint| 2,40,000 |
| 15. | For loss of toes of both feet distal to the proximal interphalangeal joint | 1,60,000 |
| 16. | For amputation at hip | 7,20,000 |
| 17. | For amputation below hip with stump not exceeding 5" in length measured from | 6,40,000 |
| | tip of great trenchanter but not beyond middle thigh | |
| 18. | For amputation below hip with stump exceeding 5" in length measured from tip of | 5,60,000 |
| | great trenchanter but not beyond middle thigh | |
| 19. | For amputation below middle thigh to 3½" below knee | 4,80,000 |
| 20. | For amputation below knee with stump exceeding 3½" but not exceeding 5" | 4,00,000 |
| 21. | Fracture of spine with paraplegia | 4,00,000 |
| 22. | For amputation below knee with stump exceeding 5" | 3,20,000 |
| 23. | For loss of one eye without complications the other being normal | 3,20,000 |
| 24. | For amputation of one foot resulting in end-bearing | 2,40,000 |
| 25. | For amputation through one foot proximal to the metatarsophalangeal joint | 2,40,000 |
| 26. | Fracture of spine without paraplegia | 2,40,000 |
| 27. | For loss of vision of one eye without complication of disfigurement of eye ball,| 2,40,000 |
| | the other being normal | |
| 28. | For loss of all toes of one foot through the metatarphalangeal joint | 1,60,000 |
| 29. | Fracture of hip-joint | 1,60,000 |
| 30. | Fracture of Major-Bone-Femur, Tibia of both limbs | 1,60,000 |
| 31. | Fracture of Major-Bone-Humerus, Radius of both limbs | 1,20,000 |
| 32. | Fracture of Pelvis not involving joint | 80,000 |
| 33. | Fracture of Major Bone-Femur, Tibia of one limb | 80,000 |
| 34. | Fracture of Major Bone-Humerus, Radius Ulna of one limb | 64,000 |
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[F. No. K-14011/10/2024-MRTS-II]
JAIDEEP, Officer on Special Duty (UT)
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-
section (i), vide notification number G.S.R. 353(E), dated the 11th April, 2017.
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