Modification in the Travelling Allowance – New order dated 22.01.09
Written by Administrator on January 24th, 2009At last CG Officers working in field formations could breath easy after this new stand taken by the department on TA Rules.
As you are all aware of the modified Travelling Allowance Rules as per Office Memorandum dated 23.09.08 consequent on Sixth pay commission recommendations, which was based on reimbursement principle (i.e) Officers have to produce receipts for the amount spent on accommodation, food, transportation etc.
This principle may be fine for the officers who travel to a cities, as the charges for lodging, transportation etc could be claimed at actuals subject to a maximum ceiling.
However, Officers who had to travel on duty to remote places like villages sea shores were really put to hardship because they could not get the receipts for the amount spent by them for food as it would be meaningless to ask for serially numbered bill from a small Hotelier or “Dhabawala” in those places. Even for those who travel long distances in trains in which fare is not inclusive of food, it would be very difficult to get receipts for food from pantry car or railway platform salesmen.
Now, this hardship has been done away with by the issue of new Ofice Memorandum dated 22.01.2009, as the Govt has decided to sanction daily allowance on tour, based on earlir office memorandum dated 17.04.1998 in case the officers opted to claim slab rate based daily allowance instead of reimbursement based travelling allowance prescribed vide office memorandum dated 23.09.08.
In a nutshell, this new order provides the choice to the Officers for claiming the Travelling allowance either based on old TA rates as per the office memo dated 17.04.98 or at actuals using the bills for food etc as per the office memorandum dated 23.09.08. However, Officers can not mix up these two orders for a single tour.
Download memorandum from Ministry of Finance website – http://finmin.nic.in/6cpc/TARules_6cpc.pdf
January 26th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
For convinience of all, it suggested to reproduce earlir office memorandum dated 17.04.1998 in this forum itself
January 28th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
In line with revised pay, the old corresponding daily allowances during travel shall be multiplied by 1.86 to give real benifit from VI cpc.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Like other allowances daily allowance is required to be doubled
February 25th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
silly, foolish, cranky, idiotic, lunatic and what else.
an order issued 10 years ago is supposed to be followed today when the actual pay on which it is based has been revised 4 times!
the chaps who issue these orders should be made to sweat it out in the field instead of sitting in airconditioned rooms.
while its obvious that for a mere 30 rupees or so one has to get receipts . in ordinary localities the room rent was 120 as per earlier order for the highest class but today it has been made as 6000 for class I officers irrespective of the city. Imagine what could one do with the old rate of 225 per day inclusive of room rent?
yes precisely go beg or be bribed with hospitality with the government ending up as the loser in the longer run.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
It is utmost necessary that the rates for DA as provided under old system (1998) are revised to at least compensate for the increased cost of living. Staff organisation must put up a demand in this regard.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
In order to avoid any ambiguity, one and only revised order may be issued for TA and contingencies. It is also suggested that curreption at every level should be curbed to save revenue but not such khana, nasta and auto riksh fare which officials actually do when away from home struggling with tour fatig and adverse conditions to perform special type of official work.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
*Corruption
March 9th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Convinienced with the view of Sh. Narasimhan
Rajeev Verma
April 9th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Very nice information. Thanks for this.its great to see someone with a like mind.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:05 am
sir,
what is the latest pass rules for Railway men.now almost one year is over afer 6th PC