Travel Allowance Rule - Journeys during leave or when proceeding or returning from leave
Except as otherwise provided in these rules, a railway servant is not entitled to any travelling allowance for a journey made during leave or while proceeding or returning from leave. (IRCE 1662.)
(IRCE 1663) (1) When travelling allowance is sanctioned under the exception to Rule1662, it will be regulated by grade to which the railway servant would have belonged had he not proceeded on leave including leave preparatory to retirement.
(2) The Head of Department may grant travelling allowance as on tour to a non-gazetted railway servant who is required to perform some public duty at a place other than the one where he is spending his leave provided that travelling allowance may not be granted for a journey while proceeding on or returning from leave.
(3) The General Managers, Director General/ Railway Designs and Standard Organisation, Chief Administrative Officers and the other Heads of Office drawing a pay of Rs. 7300/- per month and above may, in consultation with the financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer, grant travelling allowance as on tour to Accounts Officers who are required to perform some public duty at a place other than one where they spend the leave, provided that travelling allowance may not be granted for a journey while proceeding on or returning from leave. These powers should be exercised personally by General Managers/Chief Administrative Officers etc. and should not be redelegated.
(Railway Ministry’s letter No. F(E) 1/78/PW/7/2 dated 24-1-79 )
NOTE: The travelling allowance for a railway servant who is required to travel on duty in consequence of his re-employment during leave preparatory retirement, following the date of his compulsory retirement granted to him under Rule 540 or corresponding rule applicable to him which runs concurrently to his re-employment, should be regulated by the pay and grade of the post which he held immediately before proceeding on such leave; even though his pay in the post in which he is re-employed together with his leave salary in respect of refused leave may be less than the pay of the post held by him prior to commencement of such leave.
(IRCE 1664) (1) When a railway servant is compulsorily recalled to duty before expiry of his leave and the leave thereby curtailed by not less than one month, he is entitled to draw travelling allowance as for a journey on tour from the place at which the order of recall reaches him, or, if the journey involves travelling by sea, from the port at which he lands in India to the station in which he is recalled. If the period by which leave is curtailed is less than one month, travelling allowance may be allowed at the discretion of the authority recalling the railways servant.
(2) If the railway servant recalled to duty is entitled to travelling allowance under Rule 1650, he may not draw travelling allowance under Sub-rule (1).
(IRCE 1665) If a non-gazetted railway servant, on compulsory recall from leave exceeding four months, is posted to a station other than that from which he went on leave, he may, if his new station is more than 350 kms. distant from his old station, be granted, in addition to the concession admissible under Rule1615, free passes and/or traveling allowance for his family under Rule 1642 for the journey from the place at which the order of recall reaches him to the new station;
Provided that the amount of mileage allowance shall not exceed that which should be admissible if the journey was performed from the old to the new station.
