Omitted
[Referred to in rule 2.48]
Scale of camp equipment, servants, horse, motorcars, etc., prescribed in lieu of daily allowance under rule 2.48.
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Chief Conservator of Forests, Punjab ... |
1. Three quintals of luggage. 2. One servant 3. One motorcar One House |
For touring in plains a motorcar; for touring in hills a horse. |
[Referred to in Note below rule 2.2]
Travelling
allowance to Government employees directed to perform a journey in the interests
of the public service for any purpose, not specified in Rule 2.2.
1. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
1. Engineer Officers of the P.W.D. who are members of the
Institution of Engineers (India), and whose subscriptions are up to date, permitted
to attend the annual meetings of its Punjab. Haryana. H.P.Center, Chandigarh
& Ludhiana.
Sub-Center: -
(i) Actual
costs of railway ticket.
(ii) Daily
allowance for halts at the place of annual meeting s at ordinary rates save
that no half daily allowance will be admissible for each day spent in
travelling.
Travelling allowance of Executive, Assistant Executive
and Assistant Engineers, Temporary Engineers, Temporary Assistant Engineers,
Sub-Engineers, Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents of the Central
Workshop, may be passed on the counter-signature of their Controlling
Officers. As regards Superintending
Engineers, the signature of the drawing officer should be accepted as final
evidence of the fact that he was permitted to attend the meeting.
II. Superintending Engineers, in the Public Works Department,
Irrigation Branch who attend meeting on “Water Distribution” : -
(i)
Travelling
allowance at tour rates for the journey to and from the place of meeting.
(ii) Daily
allowance for halts for the days of the meeting s as for halts on tour.
The signature of the drawing officer
should be accepted as final evidence of the fact that he attending the meeting.
II HEALTH DEPARTMENT
1. (a) Officers of the
Department who attend an annual conference converted by the Director of Health
Services to discuss public health problems provided that the conference is held
apart from any meeting of the Punjab Health Association.
(b) Other
Medical Officers of Health who are not Government employees and who are
permitted to attend a conference of the kind mentioned in clause (a) will not
receive travelling Allowance from Government but Government may contribute
towards their travelling allowance in the same proportion as Government
contributes towards their pay.
III POLICE DEPARTMENT
(a) Police
Officers permitted by the Inspector-General, a Deputy Inspector-General of
Police or the assistant Inspector-General, Government Railway Police, to attend
Police conference or to participate in physical training, and lower
subordinates permitted by Superintendents of police or the Assistant
Inspector-General, Government Railway Police, to participate in musketry
practice held beyond their spheres of duty: -
(i) Travelling
allowance at tour rates for the journey to and from the place where the
conference, musketry practice or physical training is held.
(ii) Daily
allowance for halts at place of conference, musketry practice or physical
training as for halts on tour.
(b) Staff of
the Finger Print Bureau, Phillaur, ordered by the Superintendent of Police in
charge of the Bureau to undergo eye-test examination by the Ophthalmic Surgeon
of the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Amritsar: -
(i)
Travelling
allowance at tour rates for the journey to and from Amritsar.
(ii) Daily
allowance for halts at Amritsar as for halts on tour.
Traiveling allowance of all
Police Officers may be passed on the counter-signature of their Controlling
Officers.
(c) Enrolled Police
Officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, Government Railway Police
and district executive force, sent to Phillaur for selection for employment in
the Finger Print Bureau and subsequently required to undergo an eye-test by the
Opthalmic Surgeon of the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, Amritsar : -
(i) Travelling
allowance at tour rates for the journey from the places of their duty to
Phillaur and Phillaur to Amritsar and back to the place of their duty;
(ii) Daily
allowance at tour rates for the journey from the place of their duty to
Phillaur and Phillaur to Amritsar and back to the place of their duty;
The travelling allowance for of all such officers shall
be passed on the counter-signature of the Controlling Officers concerned.
IV. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
1. Principals of combined institutions and Headmasters of
Government High Schools attending meetings of Headmasters’ Association under
and with proper sanction, will be allowed single railway fare of the class of
railway accommodation to which they are entitled and actual expenses for the
journey performed by road (not exceeding the usual mileage allowance admissible
under the rules) for the journey to and from the place of meeting of the
Association, but will not allowed any daily allowance for the days of halt.
II. The Block Education Officers are allowed travelling and
halting allowances for the purposes noted below: -
(1)
Departmental
enquiries in their sub-divisions.
(2)
To attend
Teachers’ Associations in their sub-divisions.
(3)
To conduct
or attend refresher courses held in their sub-divisions with previous
permission of the Circle Education Officers and outside their sub-divisions
with the previous permission of the Director of Public Instruction.
This rule applies to Block
Education Officers for physical training also.
(4)
To
supervise eradication of pohil weed or locust destruction their sub-divisions.
(5)
To conduct
and attend the District Middle /High School Tournaments and Olympic and village
games in their sub-divisions.
This rule applies to Block
Education Officers for physical training also.
(6)
To attend
meetings of the Rural Community Council when held in their sub-divisions.
(7)
To organize
or attend rural melas in their sub-divisions.
(8)
To attend
educational conference within or outside their sub-divisions.
(9)
To attend
educational conference within or outside their sub-divisions.
V CO-OPERATIVE DEPARTMENT
1. Assistant Registrars, Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors and Clerks
of the Co-operative Department permitted by the Registrar, Co-operative
Societies, to attend Refresher Courses held within or beyond their circle: -
(i)
Travelling
allowance at tour rates for the journey to and from the place where the
Refresher Course is held.
(j)
Daily
allowance for halts at such place not exceeding 10 days as for halts on tour.
VI. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
(1) A Subordinate Judge undertaking a journey to the private
residence of a person making a declaration under section 3 of the Muslim
Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act. 1937, will be allowed travelling
allowance at the rates noted below:
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(a)
For a
journey to and from the residence of a declarant within a radius of 8 kms,
from the court of the Subordinate Judge. (b)
For a
journey to and from the residence of a declarant beyond a radius of 8 kms. from
the court of the Subordinate Judge. |
Two rupees and
paise fifty. Travelling
allowance at tour rates. |
VII. GENERAL ADMINISTRATI
1. Deputy Commissioners attending meetings of the Provincial
Council of the Punjab Boy Scouts Association.
Travelling allowance at tour rates
with halting allowance up to 10 days for journeys to the place where the
meeting is held and back to the place of posting.
T.A. TO PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES RULES
[Rules printed]
See Government of Punjab, Political
Department Manual containing Acts, rules Orders and Instructions relating to
the Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and Officers and
members of the Punjab Legislature.
THE HIGH COURT JUDGES T.A. RULES. 1956, ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA UNDER HIGH COURT JUDGES
(CONDITIONS OF SERVICE)
ACT, 1954.
1. These rules may be called the High Court Judges Travelling Allowance Rules, 1956.
I-A. Definitions –In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires: -
(a) ‘headquarter’ means: -
(i) in relation to a Judge directed by the Chief Justice to perform his normal duties for a period exceeding three months at a place other than the principal seat of the High Court, such place; and
(ii) in other cases, the principal seat of the High Court;
(b) ‘Judge’ includes an acting Judge and an additional Judge.
(2) (I) When a Judge travels on duty, he is entitled: -
(a) When travelling by railway to a reserved two-berthed compartment of the highest class including air-conditioned and if one such compartment is not available then to a reserved four-berthed compartment of the highest class (but excluding air to a reserved four-bethed compartment of the highest class (but excluding air-conditioned) and the fares at lowest class rates actually paid for servants not exceeding two in numbers.
(b) When travelling by a steamer service to one reserved first class cabin, if available or to the fares actually paid for himself and the fares at the lowest class rates actually paid to the steamer service for servants not exceeding two in number subject to usual deduction on account of messing charges.
(c) When travelling by a public air transport service to the fare paid for himself and, if actually paid , the cost of transporting up to 75 kms of luggage by rail at passenger rates, or steamer and the railway or steamer fares of the lowest class for servants not exceeding two in number, and the expenditure actually incurred on the transport by road of servants or luggage up to a maximum of 32 paise per kilometres of that part of the journey by road for which no allowance is claimed under clause (d) of this sub-rule;
(c1) when a Judge of the Gauhati High Court is required to proceed on circuit from Gauhati to Imphal or to Agartala or to any other Bench of the High Court that may be constituted, or from Imphal or Agartala or by other such Bench to Gauhati or from one Bench to another Bench, he shall also be entitled to the expenditure actually incurred by him for the transport of his wife any dependent son or daughter-
(i) for journey by rail and in case not travelling in the reserved compartment, in the highest class of accommodation, excluding air-conditioned;
(ii) for journey by air by a public air transport service;
provided that the duration of circuit at Imphal or Agartala or at such other Bench is not less than one month at a time.
(d) when travelling by road, to an allowance at the rate of 64 paise per kms.;
Provided that: -
(i) no such allowance shall be payable in respect of that portion of a journey by road for which a public air transport service provides its own transport service provides its own transport and the fare for which journey in included in the air fare paid under clause (c) for the air journey;
(ii) no mileage allowance shall be admissible for journeys undertaken within a radius of 8 kms. from the residence of the Judge or for a journey between such residence or temporary residence and the place of sitting of the Higher Court or of Bench of the High Court; and
(iii) where daily allowance is admissible and is claimed for any day, no mileage allowance shall be admissible in addition in respect of any journey undertaken by road within a radius of 8 kms. from the temporary residence of the Judge at the place of halt;
(iv) no such allowance shall be payable in cases where the Judge uses transport provided at Government expense;
(ddd) when travelling by air, to an allowance for incidental charges at one-fifth of the standard air fare subject to a maximum a allowance of Rs.10 for each journey by air.
(d) to a daily allowance at the rate of Rs.15 in respect of any period (including Sundays and other holidays) of halt on duty outside his headquarters:
Provided that: -
(i) when a Judge is required to performed functions outside his normal duties in localities away from his headquarters he may, subject to such conditions as the President may in each case determine, be granted daily allowance not exceeding Rs.35.00 in respect of ordinary localities and daily allowance not exceeding Rs.40.00 and transport charges not exceeding Rs.10.00 per day in respect of specially expensive localities like Bombay, Calcutta, or any other locality so declared here after by the President, and shall also be entitled to Government accommodation at the same rates as for Government employee;
(ai) when a Judge is required to perform his normal duties away from his headquarters and in specially expensive locality like Bombay or any other so declared hereafter by the President, he may be granted a daily allowance of Rs.30.00;
(ii) when a Judge is required to perform similar functions, whether part-time or whole-time in his own headquarters, he shall not be paid any allowance or charges unless the special work involves extra expense in which case he may be granted such allowance not exceeding Rs.35 per day as the President may in each case determine.
(iii) when a judge is a State guest or is allowed free board and lodging at the expense of the Central or State Government or an autonomous industrial or commercial undertaking or corporation or a Saturday body or a local authority, in which Government funds have been invested or in which Government have any other interest , the daily allowance shall be restricted to 25 per cent of the amount admissible or sanctioned ; and if only board or lodging is allowed free, the judge may draw daily allowance at one-half of the admissible rate. The Judge may also draw daily allowance at one-half of the admissible rate. The Judge may also draw daily allowance at one-half of the admissible rate if he stays in circuit house, inspection bungalows or the like without having to pay any charges for accommodation’
(ii) when a Judge proceeds on duty to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the period from the date of his departure from the mainland to the date of his return to the mainland shall be treated as a period of halt on duty;
(f) to the expenditure, if any , actually incurred on the transport by passenger train or steamer at owner’s risk of a motor-car and the fare at lowest class rate actually paid to a railway or steamer service in respect of one driver or cleaner for the car.
(IA) when a Judge of the High Court at Bombay is required to proceed on Circuit Bench from Bombay to Nagpur or from Nagpur to Bombay he shall also be entitled to the expenditure actually incurred by him for the transport of his wife and depend son or daughter: -
(i) for journeys by rail, and in case not travelling in the reserved compartment, in the highest class of accommodation excluding air-conditioned;
(ii) for journeys by air, by a public air transport service;
(1) if any persons (other than servants) accompany a judge in a compartment or cabin reserved for him under sub-rule (1) fares shall be payable by him on their account, and the fares so paid shall, if full tariff rates have been paid by Government for the reserved accommodation, be credited to Government.
(2) For the purpose of this rule: -
(i) all journeys to and from headquarters shall be deemed to commence and terminate at the Judge’s residence at headquarters or, as the case may be , at an out-station;
(ii) a Judge shall be deemed to be travelling on duty when, during a vacation of High Court, he proceeds from any place in India where he was spending the vacation for the purpose of doing duty in the High Court and returns to such place after completion of such duty;
(iia) a Judge shall be deemed to be travelling on duty when, during leave or leave combined with vacation of the High Court, he proceeds from any place in India where he was spending the leave or vacation to any place or places in India for the purpose of performing duty and return to such place or to his headquarters after completion of his duty;
Provided that in case of return to headquarters after performing duty the travelling allowance in relation to what the judge would have drawn, had he returned to the place wherefrom he proceeded;
(iii) “actual expenses” means the ordinary and normal expenses incidental to the journey and includes any charge for a ferry, payment of tolls , amount spend on transport of camp equipment, but does not include such other charges as hotel charts, rent for occupying a traveler’s bungalow, cost of refreshments, charges for carriages of stores or conveyance or presents to coachmen or tips to bears or any other allowance for such incidental losses or expenses as the breakage of crockery, wear and tear of furniture and the employment of additional servants.
(3) (1) When a Government employee appointed to be a Judge travels by railway to join his post, he may at his option and in lieu of drawing travelling allowance under the ordinary rules governing on transfer applicable to him, travel in a reserved compartment of the highest class excluding air conditioned.
(2) Government employee availing himself of this concession must pay in cash to the station master of the station from which the journey commences, the fares for any members of his family accompanying him, whether they share his reserved accommodation or not. When Government pays full tariffs rates for the accommodation, all such fares will be credited to Government.
Explanation: For purposes of rules 3,4,5,6, and 7-D a reserved compartment means a two-berthed compartment or a four-berthed compartment if a two-berthed compartment is not available in the train by which a Judge travels.
(4) When a person not already in Government service is appointed to be a Judge, he may , when travelling by railway to join his post, travel in a reserved compartment of the highest class, excluding air-conditioned and subject to the ‘conditions prescribed in sub-rule 2 of rule 3.
(5) When a Judge: -
(a) proceeds on, or returns from leave, or
(b) proceeds on, or returns from vacation spent in or outside India, or
(c) deleted,
(d) proceeds to join another post after resigning office, he may, when travelling in a railway, travel in a reserved compartment of the highest class, excluding air-conditioned and subject to the conditions prescribed in sub-rule (2) of rule 3.
5-A. When a Judge or any member of his family undertakes a journey to obtain appropriate medical attendance and treatment under the provisions of the All India Services (Medical Attendance) Rules, 1954, as applicable to such Judge under the High Court Judges Rules, 1956, he shall be entitled to draw the same travelling allowance as is admissible for such journey to a member of the All India Service holding the rank of Secretary to the Government of the State in which the principal seat of the High Court is situated.
6. When a Judge is transferred form one High Court to another or from one head quarter to another, he shall be entitled to the expenditure actually incurred by him on his journey for the transport of: -
(a) when travelling by rail or by steamer: -
(i) the judge himself, by reserved compartment or cabin of the highest class, excluding air-conditioned;
(ii) members of his family not travelling in the reserved compartment or cabin in the highest class of accommodation, excluding air conditioned;
(b) when travelling by road: -
(i) the judge himself at the rate of Rs.1.26 per kms.
(ii) for every member of his family accompanying him up to a maximum of four member sat the rate of 32 paise per kms.
Provided that when any portion of the journey can be performed by railway, the allowance claimed in respect of that portion shall not exceed the amount admissible had the Judge and the members of his family travelled on such portion by railway by the highest class excluding air-conditioned;
(c) when travelling by air, the Judge himself and the members of his family by a public air transport service;
(d) personal servants, not exceeding four in number by railway or steamer or by public road transport service at lowest class rates;
(e) one motor-car by passenger train or steamer at owner’s risk; and
(f) other personal effects, not exceeding the expenditure which would be incurred in transport of 2240 kms. of goods by road and goods train or steamer and the expenditure incurred in loading and unloading such personal effects.
Explanation: - For the purpose of this rule and rules 7-A and 7-B, members of a Judge’s family means his wife, his children and his step-children normally residing with and wholly dependent on him;
7. Where by reason of change in the principal seat of the High Court or judge’s changes his ordinary place of residence he is entitled to the same allowance as open transfer from one High Court to another.
7-A(i) When a Judge, who has been transferred from one High Court to another visits the place of vacation, he shall be entitled to be paid once in a year the expenditure actually incurred by him on the journeys to and from that place for the transport of-
(a) himself and every member of his family, by the highest class, excluding air conditioned, when travelling by rail or steamer;
(b) himself and every member of his family, at the rate of 64 paise per kms. when travelling by road;
(c) himself and every member of his family by a public air transport service, when travelling by air;
Provided that when any portion of the road or air journey can be performed by railway, the expenditure incurred in respect of that portion shall not exceed the amount which would have been admissible had the Judge and the members of his family travelled on such portion by railway by the highest class excluding air-conditioned.
(2) Nothing in this rule shall apply to a judge, who, after being appointed as a Judge of a High Court, outside his home State, is transferred to the High Court situated in his home State.
(3) The family of the Judge may precede or follow the Judge within one month of the commencement or expiry of his leave or vacation, as the case may be.
Explanation: -
i. For the purpose of this rule and of rule and of rules 7-B and 7-C – permanent residence in the “home State “ means -
ii. in any other case the place which has been declared by a judge of a High Court before the commencement of these Rules as the place in which his permanent residence is located or where no such declaration has been made, such place as the Judge of a High Court may within one year from the commencement of these Rules or from the date of his appointment whichever is later de4clared to be the place in which his permanent residence is located, and the declaration so made shall not be changed unless the Central Government, having regard to the exceptional circumstances of the case permits such change, provided that not more than one such change shall be permitted by the Central Government during the period of service of a Judge of a High Court.
II. “Year” means the ‘calendar year’, provided that in the event of the return journey falling in the succeeding calendar year, such journey shall be deemed to have been performed in the year in which the outward journey had commenced.
7-B Notwithstanding anything
contained in rule 5, a person appointed as a judge of a High Court outside his
home State, whether such appointment has been transferred from one High Court
to another), shall be entitled to travel concession for himself and the members
of his family for visiting his permanent residence in his home State during his
leave, once in a block of 2 years, in accordance with rule 2 of the High Court
Judges Rules, 1956, read with the Rules applicable in this behalf to a member
of the Indian Administrative Service, holding the rank of
secretary to the Government of the State in which the principal seat of the
High Court is situated. For this
purpose, ‘leave ‘ shall include vacation.
7-C (1) In the case of a judge who dies while in service, the members of his family shall be entitled to the following expenses for travel, by the shortest route, from the head quarters of the Judge, at the time of his death , to his permanent residence in his home State, provided that such journey is completed within six months from the date of death of the judge: -
(a) for journeys by rail or steamer or both-
(i) actual first class fare, without any incidentals, for every member of the family;
(ii) actual cost of transportation of personal effects up to 2240 kms by goods trains or steamer or both;
(b) for journeys by road-
(i) an allowance of 32 paise per km. For the members of the family, a further allowance of 32 paise per km. If more than two other members of the family travel;
(ii) actual cost of transportation of personal effects limited to the expenditure which would be incurred in the transpiration of 2240 kms.by goods train and the expenditure incurred in loading and unloading such personal effects.
(2) The expenses specified in sub-rule (1) shall also be admissible for travel by a member of the family of the deceased Judge from the headquarters of the Judge at the time of his of his death to a place other than his permanent residence in his home State or from such other place, as the member happens to be at the time of Judge’s death, to a place other than the Judge’s permanent residence, in his home State, provide that the journey is completed within six months from the date of death of the Judge and the total expenses claimed for such journey do not exceed the amount which would have been admissible had such member travelled from the headquarters of the Judge to his permanent residence in his home State.
(3) Nothing in this rule shall apply in the case of a judge who dies while on leave preparatory to retirement.
Explanation: In this rule-
“members of a Judge’s family” means his widow, his children and his step-children who were normally residing with him and were wholly dependent on him at the time of him death.
7-D. When a Judge retires from service, he and the members of him family shall be entitled to the following expenses for travel and for the transportation of personal effects from the place in which he was on duty prior to his retirement to the permanent residence is his home State declared for the purpose of rule 7-A, 7-B, or 7-C. if a Judge wishes to settle down at a place other than the permanent residence his home State declared for the purposes of rule 7-A, 7-B and 7-c, the amount reimbursable to him on account of the expenditure actually incurred by him on his journey and the journey of the members of his family and for the transportation of personal effects shall be that which would have been admissible to him had he actually proceeded to his permanent residence in his home State or the permanent residence in his home State, whichever is less. The precise entitlement as aforesaid under these Rules shall be as follows, namely: -
(a) when travelling by rail or by steamer-
(i) the Judge himself may travel by a reserved compartment or cabin of the highest class , excluding air conditioned . The members of the family of the Judge may also travel in such reserved compartment or cabin with the Judge;
(ii) members of his family not travelling in the reserved compartment or cabin may travel in the highest class of accommodation excluding air-conditioned;
(b) when travelling by road-
(i) an allowance at the rate of 65 paise per kilometre for the Judge himself;
(ii) for every member of family either accompanying him or following him or preceding him, an allowance of 32 paise per mms for one member of family, a further allowance of 32 paise per kms if two members of the family travel and a further 32 paise per kms if more than two members of the family travel:
Provided that when any portion of the journey can be performed by rail , the allowance claimed in respect of that portion shall not exceed the amount admissible had the Judge and the members of his family travelled on such portion by rail the highest class, excluding air-conditioned;
(c) for transportation of one motor car, by passenger train or steamer at owner’s risk; and
(d) for transportation of other personal effects, not exceeding the expenditure which would be incurred in the transport of 2240 kms of goods by road and by goods train or steamer, and the expenditure incurred in loading and unloading such personal effects:
provided that the above entitlement will lapse if the journey is not completed by the Judge within six months from the date of his retirement. Members of his family may follow him within six months or precede him by not more than one month. The period of six months or one months as the case may be , shall count from the date of retirement of the Judge:
provided further that the amount of travelling allowance admissible to the Judge the above Rules shall be reduced by the amount claimed by the Judge as travel concession performed by him and the members of his family during one year preceding the date of retirement of the Judge.
Explanation: -For the purpose of this rule members of Judge’s family mean his wife, his children and his step-children, normally residing with and wholly dependent on him as referred to in rules 6, 7, 7-A and 7-B.
8. Repeal and savings. –(1) The High Court Judges (Part A States ) Travelling Allowance Rules, 1950, are hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, nothing contained in these Rules shall have effect so as to give to a Judge who is serving as such at the commencement of these Rules favorable terms in respect of his travelling and daily allowances than those to which he would have been entitled if these Rules had not been made.
(G.O.I., Ministry of Home Affairs notification No. 11/45/-judicial I, dated the 23rd October 1956 as amended from time to time)
[Referred to in Note 1(b) below rule 2.27]
Extracts from Government of India, Ministry of Finance (Department of Expenditure) Office Memo No. 1(1) E IV (B) 70, dated 30th December 1970.
Revised Rates of Daily Allowance
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Grade |
Delhi, Shimla and Madras |
Bombay and Calcutta |
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1. |
2. |
3 |
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1. (a) Pay up
Rs.1000 (b) Pay exceeding Rs.1000 II and III IV. |
Rs.19.50 Rs. 19.50 for
the first Rs.1000 plus 90 paise for every additional Rs.250 or fraction
thereof, subject to a maximum of rs.23.50. Re.1.00 for
every Rs.20.00 of pay or fraction thereof subject to a maximum thereof
subject to a maximum of rs.16.00 and a minimum of Rs.6.00. Rs.6.00 |
Rs24.50 Rs.24.50 for
the first Rs.1000 plus 90 paise for every additional Rs.250 or fraction
thereof, subject to a maxim of Rs.28.00. Rs.1.50 for
every Rs.20.00 of pay or fraction thereof, subject to a maximum of rs.20.00
and a minimum of Rs.7.50. Rs.7.50 |