GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN FINANCE …

1 I GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN FINANCE department ( rules division ) RAJASTHAN TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE rules , 1971 (Updated up to ) This document is compilation of original orders and amendments. Inspite of due care having been taken, if any, errors or omissions have inadvertently remained and are detected in rules , the same may also kindly be brought to the notice of FINANCE ( rules ) department . In case of any discrepancy, oriqinal rules / Orders issued shall prevail. 1 RAJASTHAN Travelling Allowance rules , 1971 (9) ( rules )/70-In exercise of the powers vested in them under rule 42 of the RAJASTHAN Service rules , the GOVERNMENT hereby makes the following rules to regulate grant of Travelling Allowance to GOVERNMENT Servants, namely: CHAPTER 1 1.

2 Title & Commencement. (l) These rules may be called the RAJASTHAN Travelling Allowance rules . 2. These rules shall come into force with effect from 1st September, 1971. 2. Applicability (1) These rules shall apply to all GOVERNMENT servants whose pay is charged to the consolidated Fund of the State. (2) These rules shall not apply to: (i) Work-charged employees. (ii) Employees paid from contingencies. (iii) Employees employed on contract where the terms of contract specifically provide otherwise. (iv) Employees on deputation from Central or other State Governments or from any body corporate where the terms of deputation provided for the application of other rules . 3. For the purpose of these rules , the following terms used in the rules have the meaning herein explained: (1) " GOVERNMENT " means GOVERNMENT of RAJASTHAN .

3 (2) " Competent Authority" means GOVERNMENT or any other authority subordinate to GOVERNMENT to which the power is delegated by or under these rules . (3) "Day" means a calendar day, beginning and ending at midnight but an absence from headquarters which does not exceed twenty four hours shall be reckoned for all purposes as one day, at whatever hours the absence begins or ends. 1[(4) "Family means" a GOVERNMENT 's servants wife or husband as the case may be, legitimate children and step children residing with and wholly dependent upon the GOVERNMENT servant. Not more than one legally married wife is included in a family for the purpose of these rules . The term 'legitimate children' includes widowed daughter residing with and wholly dependent upon the GOVERNMENT servant but does not include adopted children unless adoption is recognised under the personal law of the GOVERNMENT servant.]

4 For the purpose of transfer travelling allowance, the term "family" shall also include parents, sisters and minor brothers residing with .and wholly dependent upon the GOVERNMENT servant:] 1. Substituted vide order No. (1)FD( )/78, dated 21-8-1978, 2 Explanation: A legitimate child or step child/parent/minor brother/widowed daughter 1/sister who reside with the GOVERNMENT servant and whose income from all sources including pension and pension equivalent of death- cum- retirement gratuity or in case of members of Contributory Provident Fund, pension equivalent of GOVERNMENT contribution with interest thereon and special contribution does not exceed 2[Rs. 2000/- ] may be deemed to be wholly dependent upon the GOVERNMENT servant.

5 3[Note: - 1. The employed children of GOVERNMENT servants shall not be considered as dependent upon him/her. 2. GOVERNMENT servants married children of any age shall not be considered as dependent upon him/her. 3. Children under going education, who do not have any source of income shall be considered as dependent upon him/her. 4. Travelling Allowance on transfer will be restricted to only two dependent children of an employees this restriction shall come into effect from and shall not however, be applicable in respect of those employees who have more than two children prior to This restriction shall not be applicable in respect of those employees who are presently issueless or have only one child and the subsequent pregnancy results / resulted in multiple births as a consequence of which the number of children exceeds 5[two].]

6 4[(5) "Pay" means pay is defined in rule 7(24) of R. but it excludes special pay and non-practicing or non-clinical allowance.] (6) "Public Conveyance" means railway train or passenger bus or other conveyance which plies regularly for the conveyance of passengers on payment of individual fare, but does not include a taxi car, scooter, tonga or other conveyance hired for a particular journey. 1. Added vide F. D. order No. F. 4(1) FD( )/78, dated 9-3-1981. 2. Substituted vide FD Order (3) (FD/ rules )/98-I dated ( ) 3. Inserted vide FD Order 7(3) (FD/ rules )/98-I dated ( ). 4. Substituted vide FD Order (1) FD ( )/76 dated 5. Substituted vide Order (3)FD/ rules /98 dated with immediate effect.

7 3 (7) "Transfer" means a transfer of a GOVERNMENT servant in the public interest from one headquarter station in which he is employed to another such stations either to take up duties of a new post or in consequence of a change of the headquarters of his post. (8) "Travelling allowance" means and includes mileage allowance, 1[Daily allowance] and permanent travelling allowance. (9) "Mileage allowance" means an allowance granted to a GOVERNMENT servant to meet the cost of a particular journey on the basis of distance travelled by Rail, Road or Air. (10) 1["Daily Allowance"] means an allowance granted to a GOVERNMENT servant to meet the cost of lodging and boarding and other incidental expenditure necessitated at the place of halt.

8 (11) "Journey on Tour" means a journey undertaken by a GOVERNMENT servant on duty to a place other than his headquarters either within or beyond his sphere of duty. (12) "Period of absence from headquarters" means period of absence from headquarters which begins on the day on which the GOVERNMENT servant actually leaves the headquarters and ends on the day on which he returns thereto. CHAPTER II CATEGORISATION OF GOVERNMENT SERVANTS 2[4. For the purpose of calculating Travelling Allowance including Daily Allowance, GOVERNMENT servants are divided into five categories, as under :- Categories Class of GOVERNMENT servants based on 'Basic Pay' total of pay in Running Pay Band and Grade Pay Category 'A' GOVERNMENT servants drawing basic pay of Rs.]

9 37000/- per month or above Category 'B' GOVERNMENT servants drawing basic pay of ,000/- or above but below Rs. 37,000/- per month. Category 'C' GOVERNMENT servants drawing basic pay of , 000/- or above but below Rs. 19,000/- per month. Category 'D' GOVERNMENT servants drawing basic pay of , 000/- or above but below Rs. 15,000/- per month. Category 'E' GOVERNMENT servants drawing basic pay below ,000/- per month.] 1. Substituted Vide order (3) FD/ rules /98-I, dated ( ) 2. Substituted Vide order (3) FD/ rules /98, dated ( ) 4 5. (1) For the purposes of these rules , the term "actual pay" means as defined in rule 3(5) of these rules whether drawn while holding a post in substantive or officiating or purely temporary capacity at the time when the journey is undertaken.

10 (2) In case of a GOVERNMENT servant re-employed after retirement the term 'actual pay* means pay plus the amount of pension including pension equivalent of Death-cum-retirement gratuity, if any, irrespective-, of commutation of a part- of pension, if any, or pensionary equivalent of GOVERNMENT contribution with interest thereon and special contribution included in the total retirement benefits in respect of a GOVERNMENT servant governed by Contributory Provident Fund, as the case may be, but not exceeding the maximum pay of the post in any case. (3) In case of a GOVERNMENT servant drawing consolidated pay, the term, 'actual pay' means the amount which is equal to 60% of the, consolidated pay.