CENTRAL CIVIL SERVICES (LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION) RULES

LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION - RULES

Types of leave travel concession:-
1. Home Town:-The leave travel concession to hometown shall be admissible irrespective of the distance between the headquarters of the Government servant and his hometown, once in a block of two calendar years, such as 2006-2007, 2008-2009 and so on.
(Hometown" means the town, village or any other place declared as such by the Government servant and accepted by the controlling officer)
2. Any Place in India:-The leave travel concession to any place in India shall be admissible irrespective of the distance of the place of visit from the headquarters of the Government servant, once in a block of four calendar years, such as 2006-2007, 2008-2009 and so on:
(The expression "any place in India" will cover any place within the territory of India whether it is on the mainland, or overseas. If there are any local restrictions on visits to places in border areas, it is the responsibility of the Govt. servant undertaking the visit to fulfil the conditions for visit to the places which are subject to local restrictions.)

Govt. of India’s Decision-Leave Travel Concession
Fresh recruits to Central Government may be are allowed to travel to their home town along with their families on three occasions in a block of four years and to any place in India on the fourth occasion.
This facility shall be available to the Government officers only for the first two blocks of four years applicable after joining the Government for the first time.
The blocks of 4 years shall apply with reference to the initial date of joining the Government even though the employee changes the job within Government subsequently.
The existing blocks will remain the same but the entitlements of the new recruit will be different in the first eight years of service. All other provisions concerning frequency of travel under LTC are retained.

Travel entitlements:-
For the purpose of official tour/transfer or LTC, will be the same but no daily allowance shall be admissible for travel on LTC.
Further, the facility shall be admissible only in respect of journeys performed in vehicles operated by the Government or any Corporation in the public sector run by the Central or State Government or a local body.
Air Journey by Private Airlines will however, continue to be admissible as per Ministry of Finance O.M. No. 19024/1/E-IV/2005 dated the 24th March, 2006

http://finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/notofication/om_airtravel.pdf and in terms of the orders of DOPT in this regard..

(1) LTC to a newly married husband of a female Government servant.
When a female Govt. servant proceeds to her hometown, availing of Leave Travel Concession and gets married in the hometown, LTC may be allowed also to be husband of the female Govt. servant, for the journey performed by him from the hometown to the headquarters of the female Govt. servant.[OM No. 48/2/65-Ests.(A), dated 2.4.1965]
(2) Change of Hometown:-
The hometown once declared and accepted by the controlling officer shall be treated as final. In exceptional circumstances, the Head of the Department or if the Government servant himself is the Head of the Department, the Administrative Ministry, may authorise a change in such declaration provided that such a change shall not be made more than once during the service of a Government servant.
(3) Carry over of leave travel concession.-
A Government servant who is unable to avail of the leave travel concession within a particular block of two years or four years may avail of the same within the first year of the next block of two years or four years. If a Government servant is entitled to leave travel concession to home town, he can carry forward the leave travel concession to any place in India for a block of four years only if he has carried forward the leave travel concession to home town in respect of the second block of two years within the block of four years.
(4) Advance may be granted up to 90% of the estimated Fare.
The President has been pleased to decide that employees of the Lakshadweep and A&N Administrations may be sanctioned an advance of 90% of the estimated ship fare fromIsland to Mainland and back for availing Annual Free Sea Passage. It has also been decided to increase the amount of advance for availing LTC from 80% to 90% of estimated fare in respect of the Central Govt. employees.
(5) Encashment of earned leave along with LTC Leave Travel Concession (a) Government officers are allowed to encash ten days earned leave at the time of availing of LTC to the extent of sixty days during the entire career.

(b) The leave encashed at the time of LTC will not be deducted from the maximum amount of earned leave encashable at the time of retirement.

(c) It is further clarified that where both husband and wife are Government servants, the present entitlement for availing LTC shall remain unchanged, and encashment of leave equal to 10 days at the time of availing of LTC will continue to be available to both, subject to a maximum of sixty days each during the career.

(d) At least equal number of days of earned leave should be availed along with encashment

(e) The balance at credit should more than 30 days after deducting the total of leave

availed plus leave for which encahment was availed.

The highlights for LTC Leave Travel Concession are:

Leave Travelling Concession (L T C) - Rules at a glance
1.Leave Travelling Concession is admissible to all Government Servants between Headquarters and their Hometowns.
2.Who have completed one year of service on the date of journey, they only eligible to take Leave TravellingConcession.(From 1.9.2008 onwards fresh rcruits along with their families are allowed to visit their home towns on three occasiions and to "Any place in India" on fourth occasion during a block of four years in the initial period of 8 years after joining the government for the first time.)
3.In the case of journey to home town, admisible once in a block of two years. The blocks are 1956 - 57, 1958 - 59 and so on: presently the blocks are 2006 - 07 and 2008 - 09.
4.In the case of journey to "Any place in Indai", admissible once in a block of four years. This will be in lieu of one journey to home town. The current block ia 2006 - 09.
5. Not admissible during holidays alone.(Admissible during regular/casual/special casual leave, study leave, maternity leave and duringpaternity leave.)
6.Also admissible during leave preparatory to retirements, provided the return journey is completed before the expiry of the leave.
7. Leave Travelling Concession is admissible to all journeys by Train/Road/Steamer.
8. In the case of an employee under suspension, admissible only to the family of the government servant.
9. Concession is admissible for self and family.
10. Leave Travelling Concession not availed during a block year, that may be availed within the grace time (i.e., before end of the next year.)
11. Family members may travel independently in any number of batches. The return of each group must becompleted within six months from the commencement of that group's outward journey. This conditionmay be relaxed by the Head of the Department in special cases.
12. The government servant and or members of the familymay travel under the concession to travel to "any where in India"either to the same place or different places of their choice.
13. The government servant can visit his home town also under the concession to travel to "any where in India".
14. Some members of the family can avail home town concession and others can avail "any where in India" concession in the same block year.
15. Reimbursement allowed by the entitled class or actually travelled class, whichever is less.
16. Before commencement of Leave Travelling Concession would be intimated within 45 days, only eligible to get 90% anticipated reimbursement may be granted as advance.