CHAPTER 14 LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION - NFIFWI

1 99 CHAPTER 14 LEAVE TRAVEL :i) LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION shall be admissible to all confirmed employees in the service of the ) LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION shall not be admissible to -a) Any employee in Class I or Class II who has not completed one year of continuous service in that cadre or anyemployee in Class III or Class IV who has not completed six months continuous service in that cadre on the datethe outward journey is performed by him or any member of his family, as the case may ) Any employee who is not a whole-time salaried employee of the Corporation or who has been appointed oncontract or work-charged ) An employee serving : Any employee officiating in higher cadre will be eligible to LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION facility based on his substantivecadre :a) employee shall mean a permanent whole-time salaried employee in the service of the ) family shall mean an employee s wife or husband, as the case may be, and parents, legitimate/legally adoptedchildren and step children wholly dependent on the :1) Not more than one wife is included in the term family.

2 2) Parents having income/pension-exceeding per month will not be deemed to be dependent on theemployee. Declaration to the effect that the parents are either residing with him or residing with his family andare dependent on the employee must be obtained from the employee who is claiming LTC benefits for is further clarified that an employee whose father has income not exceeding shall be treated asdependent for the purpose of LTC, even if the employee s mother is having income/pension exceeding month and is not dependent. REF: P/ER/A/G/200/III/MMS dated ) Children with income exceeding per month shall not be deemed to be dependent on the employee. Astipend or scholarship, granted by a University or other Institutions shall not be deemed as income for thispurpose.

3 However, stipend to the graduate during internship in hospital will be treated as ) Widow female employee may claim LTC benefit either for her parents or her parents-in-law who reside withher and are dependent on )Competent Authority shall mean i)In respect of employee belonging to Class I and II:1) The Officer-in-charge of a Division in respect of employees in the ) The Zonal Manager in respect of the employees in the Zonal Office and the Officers-in-charge of the Divisionsin the ) Chief Internal Auditor in respect of the employees in the Internal Audit ) Chairman in respect of Zonal Managers, Executive Directors and Managing ) Executive Director (E&OS)/Chief (E&OS) in respect of other employees in the Central ) In respect of employee belonging to Class III & IV:1) An Officer of the rank of ADM.

4 Nominated for this purpose by the Officer-in-charge of a Division in respect ofemployees in the ) An Officer of the rank of ADM nominated by the Zonal Manager in respect of employees in the Zonal ) An Officer of the rank of ADM nominated by the chief Internal Auditor in respect of employees in the InternalAudit ) An Officer of the rank of ADM nominated by the Executive Director (E&OS)/ Chief (E&OS) in respect of theemployees in the Central ) Appropriate Class shall mean the class shown below by which the employees and the members of their family areentitled to TRAVEL while availing of TrainBy RoadBy SteamerZM and aboveI Class AC / II AC Sleeper includingBus or by single seat inI ClassRajdhania taxiOther Officers in Class II Class Ordinary / II AC SleeperBus or by single seat inI Classincluding Rajdhania taxiDevelopment officersI Class or II AC / Rajdhani Express--do----do--Class IIChair Car / AC III Tier SleeperClass III employeesI Class / II AC / Rajdhani ExpressBusII Classdrawing a Basic Pay ofChair Car / AC III Tier SleeperRs.

5 7945/- and aboveClass III employeesII Class / Sleeper Class (other thanBusII Classdrawing a Basic Pay ofRajdhani Express) I Class / II AC ifless than Rs. 7945/-night journey is involved / Chair Car/ AC III Tier Sleeper in RajdhaniExpress (if night journey is involved)Class IV employeesI Class / II AC / Rajdhani ExpressBusDeckdrawing a Basic Pay ofChair Car / AC III Tier SleeperRs. 7945/- and aboveClass IV employeesII Class / Sleeper Class (other thandrawing a Basic Pay ofRajdhani Express)BusDeckless than Rs. 7945/- of fare by Rajdhani Express Chair Car, wherever permissible, will be allowed only if the employeeactually travels by Rajdhani Express Chair of the rank of DM and above who are entitled to TRAVEL by Air while on tour may also TRAVEL by Air on LTCalongwith the eligible members of the family subject to following conditions:(a) For TRAVEL by air the surface distance between two places by shortest route by rail will be the basis for reckoningentitlement of mileage under LTC Scheme.

6 Where the two places are not connected by rail, reference may bemade to the Road Map for mileage by direct route.(b) An Officer, who travels by air, will be reimbursed full air fare provided each of the onward and return journeysby air is within the ceiling of surface distance of 2000 Kms.(c) If distance travelled by air is more than surface distance of 2000 Kms. each way, the deduction for the excessdistance shall be on pro-rata : If an Officer travels from Thiruvananthapuram to Mumbai by air, the distance of 2136 kms and back, theofficer will incur air fare of Rs 4089/- one way. The reimbursement will be restricted to 2 X (2000 X 4089 / 2136) only.(d) Where an Officer s TRAVEL is partly by air and partly by other entitled modes of TRAVEL , Railways/Roadways,the reimbursement shall be made as under:Full air fare for distance travelled within the permissible 2000 Kms, by air either onward and/or return journeys plusii) The amount equal to the difference in train fare for 2000 Kms, and the train fare for the distance travelled by airwithin 2000 Kms.

7 Which is to be calculated on notional basis on surface :An Officer travels from Mumbai to Delhi by air and then goes by rail to Agra. The distance travelled by him by air fromMumbai to Delhi is 1385 Kms. for which he gets full air reimbursement. The reimbursement for the balance distancewill be equal to the difference in train fare for 2000 Kms. and train fare for 1385 Kms. which is the distance travelled byair and arrived at on a notional basis on the surface distance. The distance in Kms. should be rounded off to theimmediate lower Km. of the distance for which the railway fare is available in the railway fare Table. If the mode oftravel by return journey from Agra to Mumbai is by eligible class by train, then the reimbursement will be subject to aceiling of train fare for 2000 Kms. or actual distance if ) When TRAVEL by air is combined with TRAVEL in train by the entitled class, the order of reimbursement would be firstfor the distance travelled by air irrespective of the phase of air TRAVEL whether it precedes or follows rail reimbursement for the balance distance, if any, admissible is to be calculated as per 1(d) (ii) ) If an Officer travels by air and the remaining distance by a class lower than the entitled class, the actual expensesrestricted to the eligible distance by appropriate class will be reimbursed.

8 In case of a Class I Officer who is entitledto TRAVEL by air, for example, if the Officer travels by air for 1000 Kms. and another 1500 Kms. by II class train thereimbursement will be limited to air fare for 1000 Kms. and the II Class train fare for another 1000 of Entitlement:i) LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION can be availed in respect of the employee himself and each member of the family duringany block of 2 years either for journey to home town or for journey to places other than home town but not ) The current block for Class I and II Officers is the Calendar Year 2007 2008 and that for Class III and IVemployees is Financial Year 2006-08, to ) An employee or any member of the family who does not avail the CONCESSION in one block may carry forward andaggregate the same alongwith the current block and TRAVEL to any place in India on LTC subject to a maximumdistance of 2000 X 2 kms each ) An employee who is unable to avail of LTC during the particular block of two years may carry forward the unavailedLTC to the next year block.

9 However, the unavailed facility of one block cannot be carried forward beyond theimmediate next block of two an employee carries forward the unavailed LTC facility of one block to the next block he will have thefollowing options.(a) To avail of the carried forward LTC in the first year of the next block or(b) To avail of the unutilised block and the LTC for the current block in the current block itself. The journey shouldbe completed before last day of the second year of current ) An officer whose family is living away from the head quarters can avail of the CONCESSION for himself for visit tothe hometown once every year during each two-year block provided no other eligible member avails of the concessionfor the same , if an employee has claimed LTC reimbursement of the expenses incurred for even one member of thefamily, the facility of two trips to hometown in any block will not be ) The LTC facility for the unavailed block that is being carried over to the next block should be availed of only in thefirst year of the next block.

10 Carry over of LTC of a particular block to the second year of the next block should beallowed only in exceptional and rare cases provided the Competent Authority is satisfied that sufficient and validreasons of office exigencies existed for not availing of the CONCESSION of the carried forward block either in thatblock itself or during the first year of the next carry over is allowed to the second year of the next block for satisfactory reasons and his / her family travelstogether the claim can be reimbursed against the carried forward block in respect of family members also. However,where family members alone TRAVEL but not the employee, the need for carry over to the second year of the nextblock because of refusal of LEAVE or office exigencies does not arise and in such cases the benefit of carry over ofLTC to the second year of next block will not be available to the :i)Home-town shall mean the place as is declared by the employee duly supported by reasons, as the place where hewould normally reside but for his absence from such a station for service in the Corporation.