DOPT Guidelines for applying for LTC - Block Year, Advance, Claim, Time Limit etc.
Central Civil Services (Leave Travel concession) Rules, 1988
Guidelines
1.
Please ensure that you have applied for leave and submitted the
completely filled self certification form to your Administration before
the LTC journey is undertaken.
2. Please check the eligibility before applying for LTC. LTC to Home
Town can be availed once in a block of two years and LTC to Any Place in
India may be availed once in a four year block. If not availed during
these blocks, the LTC may also be availed in the first year of the
following block.
3. Please note that the current two year block is 2016-17 and the current four year block is 2014-17.
4. In case of fresh recruits, LTC to Home Town is allowed on three
occasions in a block of four years and to any place in India on the
fourth occasion. This facility is available to the fresh recruits only
for the first two blocks of four years applicable after joining the
Government service for the first time. (For details, please refer to
DoPT’s O.M. No. 31011/7/2013-Estt.(A-IV) dated 26.09.2014 available on
`www.permin.nic.in’ << `OMs & Orders'<< ‘Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs) on LTC entitlements of a Fresh Recruit’)
5. A Fresh recruit may at his option choose to avail LTC under the
normal LTC rules as entitled to other regular Government employees
subject to the condition that he/she will have to forego his/her eight
years LTC entitlement. It may be noted that the option once exercised
shall be treated as final for the initial eight occasions of LTC and the
fresh recruit shall not be allowed to change it in a later stage.
6. The retiring Government employees are eligible to avail LTC as per
their entitlement provided that the return journey is performed before
his date of retirement. LTC is not allowed after retirement.
7. Journeys on LTC are to be undertaken in the entitled class of the Government servant in public/Government mode of transport.
8. Travel by private modes of transport is not allowed on LTC, however,
wherever a public transport is not available, assistance shall be
allowed for the private transport subject to the certification from an
Appropriate Authority that no other public/Government mode of transport
is available for that particular stretch of journey and these modes
operate on a regular basis from point to point with the specific
approval of the State Governments/Transport authorities concerned and
are authorised to ply as public carriers.
9. If a Government servant travels upto the nearest airport/ railway
station by authorized mode of transport and chooses to complete the
journey to the declared place of visit by `own arrangement’ (such as
personal vehicle or private taxi etc.), if the public transport is
already available in that part, then he may be allowed the fare for the
journey performed by authorised mode of transport. This will be subject
to the undertaking from the Government employee that he has actually
travelled to the declared place of visit and is not claiming the fare
reimbursement for the same.
10.Government servant may apply for advance for himself and/or his
family members sixty five days before the proposed date of the outward
journey and he/she is required to produce the tickets within ten days of
the drawal of advance, irrespective of the date of commencement of the
journey.
11.Reimbursement under LTC scheme does not cover incidental expenses and
expenditure incurred on local journeys. Reimbursement for expenses of
journey is allowed only on the basis of a point to point journey on a
through ticket over the shortest direct route.
12.The time limit for submission of LTC claim is :
- Within three months of completion of return journey, if no advance is drawn;
- Within one month of completion of return journey, if advance is drawn.
13.Government officials entitled to travel by air are required to travel
by Air India only in Economy Class at LTC-80 fare or less unless
permitted to do so by any general or specific provision.
14. Officers not entitled to travel by air may travel by any airlines,
however, reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of
their entitled class of train or actual expense, whichever is less.
15.In all cases whenever a Govt. servant travels by air, he/she is
required to book the air tickets either directly through the airlines or
through the approved travel agencies viz: M/s Balmer Lawrie & Co.
Ltd/ M/s Ashok Tours & Travels Ltd/ IRCTC. Booking of tickets
through any other agency is not permissible.
16.Travel on tour packages is not allowed, except in the case of tours
conducted by Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), State
Tourism Development Corporation (STDC) and Indian Railway Catering and
Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). In such cases, only the fare component
shall be reimbursable provided ITDC/STDC/IRCTC separately indicate the
fare component and certify that the journey was actually performed by
the Government servant and his family members for which he is claiming
the Leave Travel Concession.
17.Please ensure that your LTC claim is as per the instructions to avoid rejection of your claim.
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