Recommendations of the Tenth Pay Revision Commission - Travelling Allowance on Tour

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA

ABSTRACT

ALLOWANCES - Civil Services (Travelling Allowance) Rules –

Recommendations of the Tenth Pay Revision Commission - Travelling

Allowance on Tour - Orders - Issued.

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FINANCE (HRM.IV) DEPARTMENT

G.O.MS.No. 60 Dated:02-05-2015.

Read the following:-

1. G.O.Ms.No.129, Finance (TA) Department, dated: 17.04.2010.

2. G.O.Ms.No.25, Finance (HRM.IV) Department, dated: 18.03.2015.

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ORDER:

         The Tenth Pay Revision Commission has reviewed the existing

Travelling Allowance Rules as per the orders issued in the G.O. first

read above and recommended on the following items:

1. Revision of Pay ranges of Grades according to Revised Pay

Scales, 2015.

2. Enhancement of rates of Daily Allowance payable to

Government Servants while on tour within the State and

outside the State.

3. Enhancement of the maximum rates of reimbursement of

Lodging Charges within State and outside the State in

specified places.

4. Enhancement of rates of Conveyance Charges payable to

Government Servants at places outside the State, while on

tour.

5. Enhancement of rates of Mileage Allowance for travel by own

Motor Car / Motor Cycle.

6. Revision of eligibility to travel by train in first class.

7. Revision of eligibility to travel by A.C. buses of T.S.R.T.C.

2. Government after careful consideration have decided to accept

the recommendations of the Tenth Pay Revision Commission and

hereby issue the following orders.

3. Grades & Rates of Daily Allowance:

3.1 The classification of officers into grades and the rates of Daily

Allowance admissible within and outside the State shall be as

indicated below:

3.2 The Pay Scales assigned for Automatic Advancement Scheme in

respect of Government servants/Non-teaching Staff and the Career

Advancement Scheme in respect of Teaching Staff shall not be taken

into account for determination of Grades indicated in this para. Only

the Pay Scales attached to the posts shall be taken into account for

determination of the Grade of such employees who perform the tours.

3.3 All Government Employees are eligible to draw full daily

allowance for the entire duration of their official tour.

4. Enhancement of the maximum amount of reimbursement of

Lodging charges at various places within the State and

outside the State.

4.1 As per the G.O. first read above, Government servants visiting,

Warangal and Hyderabad/Secunderabad on official duty shall be

reimbursed the actual Lodging Charges paid by them subject to the

maximum limits as indicated below.

Rates of reimbursement

a) Grade-I Not exceeding Rs.500/-

b) Grade-II Not exceeding Rs.300/-

c) Grade-III not exceeding Rs.200/-

4.2 Similarly the Government servants visiting places outside the

State on official duty are eligible, as per Government order first read

above, for the reimbursement of lodging charges, actually paid by

them, subject to the maximum limits indicated below.

4.3 Government, hereby, order that the Government servants

visiting various places either with in the State or out side the State on

official duty shall be eligible for reimbursement of Lodging Charges

actually paid by them subject to the maximum amounts as indicated

below.

4.4. The reimbursement of Lodging Charges is subject to the

following conditions.

(i) On certification by the concerned touring officer that

Government accommodation was not available.

(ii) Production of the original receipt from the Lodging

House.

5. Travel by Train:

5.1. Government servants drawing pay in the revised pay scale of

Rs.28940-78910 (corresponding to the existing scale of Rs.14860-39540) and

above shall be eligible to travel by first class. All other employees

shall be eligible to travel by second class.

5.2. The Pay Scales assigned for Automatic Advancement Scheme in

respect of Government servants/Non-teaching Staff and the Career

Advancement Scheme in respect of Teaching Staff shall not be taken

into account for determination of the eligibility to travel by train.

Only the Pay Scales attached to the posts shall be taken into account

for determination of the eligibility to travel by train.

5.3.1. As the railways have dispensed with first class in several

trains, it is hereby ordered, that wherever first class is available in the

train, the employees, who are eligible to travel by first class, may

travel either in 1st class or in 2nd A.C. or in 3rd A.C. or in A.C. Chair

car. If there is no first class in the train the employee may travel

either in 2nd A.C. or in 3rd A.C. or in A.C. Chair car.

5.3.2. The employees who are eligible to travel by second class may

also travel by sleeper class.

5.3.3. Government also hereby decide, not to allow the Tatkal charges

except in cases of journeys between the originating station and the

terminating station, that too in cases where there was no sufficient time for

the employee to purchase the tickets in advance which should be certified

by the controlling officer.

5.3.4. Government also hereby permit to reimburse the service charges

actually spent by the employee, on production of proof of incurring of

the expenses.

5.3.5. The employees subject to their eligibility, are permitted to travel

by all types of express trains i.e., Super Fast, Sampark kranti,

Rajdhani, Satabdi, Garib Rath, ‘Duranto’ etc.

5.3.6. These eligibilities are applicable in the case of journeys

performed either on official tour or on transfer or in the case of

journeys on official tour/transfer/Leave Travel Concession (LTC).

6. Travel by Buses of T.S.R.T.C. :

6.1. The employees belonging to Grade-I of Annexure-I of T.A. Rules,

are hereby, permitted to travel by Air-conditioned buses of T.S.R.T.C.,

irrespective of whether the places are connected by rail or not.

6.2. Similarly, the employees belonging to Grades-II and III are

hereby permitted to travel by T.S.R.T.C. buses of any type, except by

A.C. buses, between the places connected by train also and claim the

bus charges actually paid, without restricting the claim to the train

fare by the eligible class.

6.3. The Pay Scales assigned for Automatic Advancement Scheme in

respect of Government servants/Non-teaching Staff and the Career

Advancement Scheme in respect of Teaching Staff shall not be taken

into account for determination of eligibility to travel by A.C. buses of

T.S.R.T.C.. Only the Pay Scales attached to the posts shall be taken

into account for determining the eligibility.

6.4. The journeys performed by private buses or hired taxies will not

be entertained.

6.5. These eligibilities are applicable in the case of journeys

performed either on official tour or on transfer or in the case of

journeys connected with Leave Travel Concession.

7. Payment of Conveyance Charges outside the State:

7.1 Taxi / Auto charges incurred by the Government employees

while on tour to any place outside the State, from the arrival point to

the place of stay and ‘vice-versa’ are reimbursable to them subject to

production of actual vouchers or a certificate of payment (vide Rule-40

(6) of T.A. Rules).

7.2 Government servants shall also be eligible to claim actual taxi

or Auto fare subject to a maximum of Rs.600/- per day for visiting the

offices of the Government of India and Ministries or any other office,

situated at the places outside the State, while on tour. A certificate to

the effect that Government vehicle was not provided to them and they

have engaged Taxi/Auto, shall be appended to the bill claiming the

amount.

8. Mileage Allowance for using own conveyances :

8.1.1. Annexure-IV of Civil Services (TA) Rules, specifies the category

of employees entitled to maintain and use their own Motor Car, Motor

Cycle / Scooter. Consequent on the revision of scales from time to

time, the following table indicates the categories of employees, who are

eligible to use and maintain their own Motor Car, Motor Cycle /

Scooter, while on tour.

8.1.2. The Pay Scales assigned for Automatic Advancement Scheme in

respect of Government servants/Non-teaching Staff and the Career

Advancement Scheme in respect of Teaching Staff shall not be taken

into account for determination of categories indicated in this para.

Only the Pay Scales attached to the posts shall be taken into account

for determination of the category.

8.2. The rates of Mileage Allowance payable to the employees who

are entitled to maintain and use their own conveyances are revised as

follows.

8.3. Daily Allowance shall not be paid to the Government servants

claiming the Mileage Allowance for their tours.

9. The existing Civil Services (Travelling Allowance) Rules, 1996

and orders issued from time to time shall continue to apply except as

provided for in this order.

10. Application of these orders to Officers of All India Services,

employees drawing pay in the Revised Pay Scales 2010 and

employees drawing pay in the U.G.C. scales, 2006.

10.1 In so far as officers belonging to All India Services who are in

Central Scales of pay, the classification of Grades shall be as follows:-

(a) Officers of AIS in Junior Time scale shall be under

Grade II under these orders.

(b) Other officers belonging to AIS shall come under Grade I

under these orders.

10.2 For the employees continuing in the Revised Scales of Pay,

2010, the classification of Grades shall be the same as was in force

prior to the introduction of Revised Scales of Pay, 2015, i.e. in the

G.O. first read above.

10.3 For the employees drawing pay in the U.G.C. Pay Scales of

1996/2006, the classification shall be as follows :-

(a) Government Servants drawing Pay in the Pay Scales of

Rs.10000-15200 and Rs.15600-39100 + AGP 7000 and

above in the U.G.C.Pay Scales of 1996/2006 respectively

shall be under Grade-I under these orders.

(b) Other Government Servants drawing pay in the U.G.C.

Pay Scales, 2006 shall come under Grade-II under these

orders.

11. These orders shall come into force with effect from 01.05.2015

i.e., in respect of the journeys performed on or after 01.05.2015 or

commenced prior to 01.05.2015 and continued beyond 01.05.2015.

12. Necessary amendments to the Civil Services (Travelling

Allowance) Rules, 1996 shall be issued in due course.

13. The G.O. is available on Internet and can be accessed at the

addresses http://www.goir.telangana.gov.in and www.finance.

telangana.gov.in

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA)

N.SIVA SANKAR

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT