Extent of application.-The rules in this chapter apply to- (IREC - 1601)
(1) All railway servants other than those who have been permitted to be governed by the rules of the ex-Company Railways as amended from tome to time;
(2) Officers of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service holding temporarily posts under the administrative control of the Railway Board; and
(3) All employees of the railway Audit Department, except that the authorities specially empowered shall exercise powers under these rules.
NOTE 1. -- In accordance with the above rules, the term “Indian Audit and Accounts Service” should be substituted for “Railway Services, Group A” wherever they have to be applied in the Railway Audit Department.
NOTE 2. –The term “Administrative Medical Officer of the State’’ and “ authorised medical attendant’’ should be read for “Chief Medical Officer of the Railway’’ and “Railway Medical Officer” respectively, wherever they occur in this Chapter in so far as the Railway Audit Department is concerned.
Audit Instructions
Rules applicable in respect of claims to travelling allowance -- A Government servant’s claim to travelling allowance should be regulated by the rules in force at the time journey, in respect of which it is made, was undertaken.
(1) For the purpose of admissibility to Travelling Allowance, entitlement of Railway servants will be based on the Grade Pay drawn for those drawing Grade Pay up to Rs. 10,000 and pay drawn in Pay Band for those in Pay Scale of HAG and above. (IREC - 1602)
(Authority: Railway Board’s letter No. F(E)I/2008/AL-28/1 dated 1.12.2008).
(2) Where a railway servant is promoted or reverted or is granted an increased rate of pay with retrospective effect, no revision of claims for travelling allowance is permissible, in respect of the period intervening between the date of promotion or reversion or grant of increased rate of pay, and that on which it is notified, unless it is clear that there has been an actual change of duties.
NOTE.- In the case of late authorization /drawl of increments with retrospective effect, other than those higher increments were withheld or where the increments take an officer above the stage of efficiency bar, there is no objection to the supplementary claims relating to Travelling Allowance, if any, being admitted, on the basis of the enhanced pay including the increments
(IREC -1603). ‘Pay’ for the purpose of determining the entitlements of Travelling Allowance/Daily Allowance on the basis of pay ranges mentioned in this chapter, means ‘pay’ as defined in Rule 1303 (F.R. 9(21) (a) (i)).
2. Non-Practicing Allowance will be reckoned as Basic Pay for computing TA/DA entitlements including Composite Transfer Grant.
(Authority: Board’s letter No.F (E) I/2003/AL-28/5 dated 23-5-2003)
Different kinds of travelling allowance.(IREC -1604) -
The following are the different kinds of travelling allowance:-
(4) Daily Allowance.
(5) Actual cost of travelling.
