LTC Rules - Leave Travel Concession Rules
as per 6th CPC - (w.e.f. 01.09.2008)
1. LTC Rules is allowed all Government servants irrespective of the distance between headquarters and their home town.
2. LTC Rules is allowed Hometown" means the town, village or any other
place declared as such by the servant and accepted by the controlling
officer.
3. LTC Rules is allowed only to those who have completed one year of service on the date of journey.
4. LTC Rules is allowed for self and family.
5. LTC Rules is allowed only to the family (in the case of an employee under suspension).
6. LTC Rules is allowed to journey to “Home Town” once in a block of two years.
7. LTC Rules is allowed journey to “Any place in India” once in a block of four years.
8. LTC Rules is allowed to expression "any place in India" will cover
any place within the territory of India whether it is on the mainland,
or overseas.
9. LTC Rules is allowed journey to “Any place in India” in lieu of one journey to Home Town.
10. LTC Rules is allowed availing during all leave periods
(Earn/Casual/S.Casual/Study/Maternity/Paternity).
11. LTC Rules is allowed all journeys to travel by Rail/Road/Air/Ship.
12. LTC Rules is allowed privilege not availed during a block may be availed before end of the next year.
13. LTC Rules is allowed allow family members independently in any number of batches.
14. LTC Rules is allowed traveling to “Any place in India” the employee
and or members of the family may travel either to the same place or
different places of their choice.
15. LTC Rules is allowed traveling to visit “Any place in India” or can visit his same Home Town also.
16. LTC Rules is allowed in the same two-year block, some members of
family can avail Home Town concession while other “Any place in India”.
17. LTC Rules is allowed reimbursement by the entitled class or actually traveled class, whichever is less.
18. LTC Rules is allowed 90 per cent of the anticipated reimbursement amount may be granted as advance.
19. LTC Rules is allowed Grade Pay holders of Rs.2400,2600 and 2800 can go AC-II Tier class by train.
20. LTC Rules is allowed Grade Pay holders of below Rs.2400 can go AC-III Tier / First Class / AC-Chair Car class by train.
Earned Leave Encashment Facility :-
1. Earned Leave up to a maximum of ten days at a time may be enchased,
subject to the condition that at least an equivalent duration of Earned
Leave.
2. This is limited to a maximum of 60 days during the entire career and
the total number of days so enchased will not be included for computing
maximum quantum of leave encashable at the time of quitting service.
3. The balance at credit should be but less than 30 days after deducting
the total of leave availed plus leave for which encashment was
availed.
4. Where both husband and wife are government servants, encashment of
leave will continue to be available to both, subject to maximum limit of
60 days.
Block Year :-
1. The LTC to home town is allowed once in a block of two calendar years, such as 2006-2007, 2008-2009 and so on.
2. The LTC to “Any Place in India” is allowed once in a block of four calendar years, such as 2006 - 2009 and so on.
Husband and Wife…
When both the husband and wife are Central Government servants:
1. They can declare separate Home Town independently.
2. They can claim LTC for their respective families, viz,. While the
husband can claim for his parents / minor brothers / sisters, the wife
can avail for her parents / minor brother / sisters.
3. Either of the parents can claim the concession for the children in a particular block;
4. The husband / wife who avails LTC as a member of the family of the spouse, cannot claim independently for SELF.
Family – definition…
1. The Government servant’s wife or husband and two surviving unmarried
children or stepchildren wholly dependent on the Government servant,
irrespective of whether they are residing with the Government servant or
not.
2. Married daughters divorced, abandoned or separated from their
husbands and widowed daughters and are residing with the Government
servant and wholly dependent on the Government servant.
3. Parents and / or step-parents (stepfather and stepmother) whole
dependent on the Government servant, whether residing with the
Government servant or not:
4. Unmarried minor brothers as well as unmarried divorced abandoned,
separated from their husbands or widowed sisters residing with and
wholly dependent on the Government servant provided their parents are
either not alive or are themselves wholly dependent on the Government
servant.
Change of Home Town…
“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.”
The CCS Rule allow an employee to change the Permanent Address given in their Service Records for once in their service.
The employee can apply for this through their respective Head of Section
enclosing the relationship and residential proof of the new address.
Care to be taken before applying for the change of address as this
facility will be available only once in their service. After changing
the Permanent Address the employee is eligible to apply for Home Town
LTC.
Those
employees who are residing on the outskirts of their work place,
automatically they are ineligible for LTC HomeTown. For the benefit of
these employees, a male employee can give the address of his wife’s
native place or opposite, after the marriage of son or daughter, their
residing place like that… But the respective Head of Section has the right to turndown the application.
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