24/04/2015
Conversion of Home Town LTC facility into travel to
different parts of the country for unmarried Government servants
F.
No. 31011/1/2013-Estt (A..IV)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel. Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment A-IV Desk
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel. Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment A-IV Desk
North Block. New Delhi-110 001
Dated
April 21, 2014
OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Leave Travel Concession
(LTC) entitlements of – Conversion of Home Town LTC facility into travel
to different parts of the country permissible under the unmarried Government servant
special dispensation scheme – Clarification — regarding.
In relaxation to the Central Civil
Services (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988, special dispensation is allowed
to the Government servants from time to time. Presently, one such dispensation
in operation is the relaxation to the Government servants to travel by air to
visit North-East Region or to Jammu & Kashmir or to the Andaman &
Nicobar Islands by converting one block of Home Town LTC available to them.
2. Vide this Department’s Office
Memorandum No. 31011/17/85-Estt.(A) dated 03.04.1986, unmarried Central
Government employees, who have left their wholly dependent
parents/sisters/minor brothers at their home town are allowed the benefit of
LTC to visit their home town every year. This concession is in lieu of all
other LTC facilities admissible to the Government servant himself and to
his/her parents/sisters/minor brothers.
3. This Department is in receipt of
references seeking clarification on the admissibility of conversion of Home
Town LTC facility into travel to different parts of the country, which is
permissible under special dispensation, to such unmarried Government servants.
4. The matter has been examined in
consultation with Ministry of Finance. It has been decided that the facility of
conversion of Home Town LTC to allow travel to different parts of the country,
under the special dispensation scheme, will also apply to an unmarried Central
Government servant, who is eligible to avail the benefit of LTC to visit Home
Town every year. This facility may be availed by converting one occasion of
Home Town LTC out of the four Home Town LTC occasions available in a block of
four years.
(Surya
Narayan Jha)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Under Secretary to the Government of India
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