2.33. Actual expenses not
admissible except under special rule - Unless in any case it is otherwise expressly
provided in these rules, no Government employee is entitled to be provided with
means of conveyance by or at the order of a superior authority to travel by
special means of conveyance, the cost of which exceeds the amount of the daily
allowance, the actual cost or part of the actual cost of travelling.
2.34 Journey by Special
conveyance - When a
Government employee of a grade lower than the first grade is required by order
of a superior authority to travel by special means of conveyance, the cost of
which exceeds the amount of the daily allowance or mileage allowance admissible
to him under the ordinary rules, he may draw the actual cost of travelling in
lieu of such daily or mileage allowance.
The bill for the actual cost must be supported by a certificate, signed
by the superior authority and countersigned by the controlling officer, stating
that the use of the special means of conveyance was absolutely necessary and
specifying the circumstances which rendered it necessary.
2.35. Definition
of tour.
A Government
employee is on tour when absent on duty from his headquarters either within,
or, with proper sanction, beyond his sphere of duty. For the purposes of this Section, a journey to a hill station is
not treated as a journey on tour.
A competent
authority may, in case of doubt, decide whether a particular absence from
headquarters is absence on duty.
Note: When power
is exercised under this rule, a copy of the sanction briefly giving the grounds
of sanction should be sent to the Accountant –General (Audit).
2.36. General principles
on which Travelling allowance is drawn for journeys on tour - The Travelling allowance drawn by a
Government employee on tour ordinarily takes the shape of either permanent
travelling allowance, or daily allowance, if either of these is admissible to
him. Permanent travelling allowance and
daily allowance may , however, in certain circumstances, be exchanged for
mileage allowance or for the whole or part of the actual cost of travelling. In certain other circumstances, actual cost
may be drawn in addition to daily allowance or for journeys for which no daily
allowance is admissible.
Note: The exchange of mileage allowance for
permanent travelling allowance should be made at the rate of 1/30th
of the permanent travelling allowance for each day on which the mileage
allowance drawn.
2.37. Restriction on the
duration and frequency on – tour - A competent authority may impose such restrictions, as it may think
fit, upon the frequency and duration of journeys to be made on tour by any
Government employee or class of Government employees.
2.38. Government employees
who are not entitled to Travelling allowance for journeys on tour - If a competent authority declares that
the pay of a particular Government employee or class of Government employees has
been so fixed as to compensate for the cost of all journeys, other than
journeys by rail or steamer, within the Government employees sphere of duty,
such a Government employee may draw no travelling allowance for such journeys,
though he may draw mileage allowance for journeys by rail or steamer. When travelling on duty with proper
sanction, beyond his sphere of duty, he may draw travelling allowance
calculated under the ordinary rules for the entire journeys including such part
of it as is within his sphere of duty.
Note 1 A
list of the appointments so declared is given at Appendix E.
Note 2 Head
Constables and constables of Police on escort duty are entitled to draw the actual cost of the conveyance of
their baggage by road in addition to the daily and mileage allowance admissible
to them under the ordinary rules.
Note 3 Tent
pitchers in the Police Department may draw travelling allowance when
accompanying an officer on a journey on tour for which travelling allowance for
more than two class IV Government employees (whether orderly or tent- pitcher)
is not drawn.
Note 4 Police
Officers are permitted to draw travelling allowance for journeys by roads
within their sphere of duty made in public motor vehicles provided that the
amount is not more than the railway fare between the two places and provided
also that the journey, if it had not been performed by a public motor vehicle
would have been performed by rail.
Note 5 A
Police Officer below the rank of Inspector may draw travelling allowance for a journey
performed by him by road either within or beyond his sphere of duty provided
the Superintendent of Police certifies in writing that the journey was
necessary in the public interest.
Note 6 Deputy
Rangers and Foresters not in charge, of Ranges may draw travelling allowance
calculated under ordinary rules as and when they travel within their sphere of
duty and stay out of their Headquarters.
In case they may return to their Headquarter on the same day, they are
only entitled to actual Bus fare/Railway fare.
2.39 (a) Carriage of
tents supplied by Government - A
competent authority may prescribe the scale of Governments tents to be supplied
to any Government employee or class of Government employees for officer, or if
it thinks fit for personal use
(b) When such tents are used by a
Government employee on tour, half of the carriage will be borne by Government
and the other half shall be paid by the Government employee or employees for
using the tent or tents.
(c) Government employees who are allowed
tents for their office establishment only are not entitled when they go into
camp without an office establishment, to the use of tents at Government
expense, and must, therefore, bear the whole cost of their carriage.
Exception: - Tents occupied by Assistant Commissioners, while under Settlement
Training, Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors of the fisheries Department,
Tehsildars, Naib-Tehsildars, Settlement Tehsildars and Naib-Tehsildars, Excise
Inspectors whatever their pay, District Kanungos, Officials/Officers of the
Punjab Forest Department while on tour in places where Rest Houses and other
facilities are not available, surveying Instructors of the Government School of
Engineering, accompanying students in their annual survey camp and by
ministerial officers drawing Rs. 175 per month or less, and tents occupied by
chaprasis or police guards will be carried wholly at Government expense.
2.40. General
rule - Except where
otherwise expressly provided in these rules, a Government employee, not in
receipt of permanent travelling allowance, draws travelling allowance for
journeys on tour in the shape of daily allowance.
2.41. Drawn
during absence from headquarter on duty - Daily allowance may not be drawn except during
absence from headquarters on duty and unless a Government employee reaches a
point outside a radius of 8 kilometres from his headquarters or return to his
headquarters from a similar point and also subject to Note 5 below rule
2.100. A period of absence from
headquarters begins when a Government employee actually leaves his headquarters
and ends when he actually returns to the place in which his headquarters are
situated whether he halts there or not.
Note 1 The
term radius of 8 kilometers should be interpreted as meaning a distance of 8
kilometres by the shortest practicable route by which a traveller can reach his
destination by the ordinary modes of travelling .
Note 2 If
an officer of a Vocation Department combines tour with vacation, i.e. proceeds on
tour and then avails himself of vacation without returning to his headquarters
he should be granted tour travelling allowance under these rules for the
outward journey only.
Note 3 A canal
patwari halting at the headquarters of a Zilladar, or the Division, which is
within 8 kilometres, but more than 3 kilometers of his own headquarters may
draw halting allowance when the halt is for the work connected with the final
check and preparation for seasonal demand statements.
Note 4 (i) The
rate of Daily Allowance for local journeys beyond a radius of 8 kilometres from
the duty paint at headquarters should be one-half of the rate fixed under rule
2.24-C for ordinary places. Local
journeys shall be construed to mean a journey within the limits of suburban of
other Municipalities, Notified Areas, Panchyats or Cantonments contiguous to
the Municipality /Corporation of the town or city in which the duty point is
located. In the case of project areas,
journey between two places falling within qualifying limits of projects
allowance, if any admissible, shall be treated as local journey.
(ii) A Government employee of grade lower
than the first, when required by the order of a superior authority to travel by
special means of conveyance may be allowed under rule 2.34 of the Punjab Civil
Services Rules, Volume III, the actual cost of travelling in lieu of Daily
Allowance as in para (i) above.
(iii) No Daily Allowance will be admissible to
a Government employee performing such local journeys at headquarters in a staff
car or a Government vehicle provided to him free of charge. When a Government employee performing a
local journey beyond a radius of 8 kilometres from the duty point at
headquarters is provided with free conveyance for one way journey only, either
for going from or for return to headquarters, he may be allowed on-fourth of
the daily allowance fixed under rule 2.24-C for ordinary places.
2.42. Halts on
tour - Subject to the
conditions mentioned below, daily allowance may be drawn during a halt on tour
or on holiday occurring during the tour
(i)
Daily
allowance may not be drawn for a continuous halt of more than ten days at any
one place: provided that a competent authority may grant general or individual
exemptions from the operation of this rule, on such conditions as it thinks
fit, if it is satisfied: -
(i)
that
prolonged halts are necessary in the interests of the public service and
(ii)
that such
halts necessitate the maintenance of camp equipage or, where no camp equipage
is maintained continue, after the first ten days, to entail extra expenses upon
the halting Government employee.
Note 1 A list of exemptions is given in
appendix F.
Note 2 Exemptions
from the operation of clause (i) of this rule, which prohibits the drawal of
daily allowance by a Government employee for a period in excess of ten days in
respect of a halt at an outstation may be granted only in cases where the
conditions prescribed at (a) and (b) are satisfied and in granting such
exemptions, the competent authority may impose such conditions as thinks
fit. One such condition is the
reduction in the amount of daily allowance that may be drawn and the principle
underlying reduction is that the expenses incurred by a Government employee in
respect of a halt at an outstation ordinarily decreases in proportion to the
length of his stay at that station. This principle should be borne in mind by
the authorities to whom powers under this rule have been delegated and the
rates of daily allowance should be suitable reduced after the first ten days,
in all cases except those which present special features. Cases in which special treatment can be
justified will in addition to those of the kind mentioned at (b) above be
generally those in which the halt of a Government employee at an outstation is
of uncertain duration which makes it impossible for him to arrange for more
permanent and cheaper accommodation.
Note 3 (i) The
sanction of the competent authority for admitting daily allowance in excess of
ten days would be necessary only when the numbers of full daily allowances
drawn (inclusive of the half daily allowance) under rule 2.45 exceeds ten, but
the daily or half daily allowance, if any admissible for the days of travel
conversed by clause (iv) below, should be excluded in calculating the ten daily
allowances.
(ii)
After a
continuous halt of ten day’s duration, the halting place shall be regarded as
the Government employee’s temporary headquarters.
(iii)
A halt is
continuous unless terminated by an absence on duty at a distance from the
halting place exceeding 8 kilometres for a period including not less than three
nights.
(iv)
In
calculating the duration of a halt, any day on which the Government employee
travels or halts at a distance from the halting place exceeding 8 kilometers
shall be excluded. One such a day, the
Government employee may draw daily allowance or exchange it for mileage
allowance, if admissible.
(v)
A
Government employee who takes casual leave when on tour is not entitled to draw
daily allowance during such leave.
Where casual
leave is combined with tour with tour to stations other than hill stations,
either before the commencement of tour or during the tour or on completion of
tour, while no D.A, will be admissible for the days of casual leave, there will
be no objection to the drawl of mileage allowance, as may be admissible from
headquarters to the outstation(s) where official duty is performed and vice
versa or from one tour station to another tour station by the shortest
route. It will, however, be a
pre-requisite in all such cases that the Government employee should obtain
prior of his permission of his Controlling Officer for the combination of
casual leave with tour. In respect of
officers who are their own Controlling Officers, such permission should
invariable be obtained from their next higher authority. A certificate to the effect that “the
journey undertaken was for official purposes and casual leave wads incidental
to it”: should be recorded on the T.A. bill by the Controlling Officers. The officers who are their own Controlling
Officers should record a similar certificate on their T.A bills themselves and
also that “the combination casual leave with tour was with the prior approval
of the higher authority”.
(vi)
Daily
allowance is not admissible for any day whether Sunday or holiday, unless the
Government employee is actually and not merely constructively in camp.
(vii)
When bodies
of police are moved from one tahsil to another for special temporary duty, the
new tahsil will not be regarded as their sphere of duty for the first ten days,
and halting allowance will be admissible to all ranks for the first ten days. After that time, the new tahsil will be
regarded as their sphere of duty and mileage and daily allowance will be
government by the ordinary travelling allowance rules.
(a) In cases, where fees paid by the
University are credited to Government the treasury receipt should be attached
to the travelling allowance bill in support of the claim.
(b) The claim on account of travelling
allowance should be accompanied by a certificate to the effect that either no
travelling allowance was paid by the University or if any travelling allowance
was paid, it was credited to Government.
In the later case, the treasury receipt should also be produced.
(a)
Travelling
allowance to and from the examination centers as contemplated in this rule may
not be drawn in respect of journey or a portion of a journey performed on the
same day as that on which such teachers also act as Superintendents, Assistant
Superintendents or Invigilators, etc., unless the fees paid by the University
for that particular day are credited to Government and no further daily
allowance is claimed for that date.
(ix) In all cases of enforced halts occurring
route on tour/journeys, temporary transfer or training, necessitated by break
down of communications due to blockade of roads on account of floods, rains,
heave snowfall, landslides, or delayed sailing of ships or awaiting for air
–lift, etc., the period of such halts shall be treated as duty and the
Government employee concerned shall be paid daily allowance at 3/4th
of the rate applicable to him at the station in which the enforced halt takes
place for the period of enforced halt after excluding first day of such halt
for which no daily allowance shall be allowed.
(x) Where the competent authorities sanction
daily allowance for enforced halts beyond a period of 10 days, excluding first
day of the halt, in relaxation of the provisions of this rules, daily allowance
admissible for the period of such halt shall be three fourths of the full rate
normally admissible or three- fourths of the reduced rate, as may be fixed by these
by these authorities, having regard to the provision of this rule.
(iii) Mileage Allowance and Actual Expenses in Place of or in Addition to Daily Allowance on Tour.
2.43. Exchange
of daily allowance for mileage allowance during the whole period of a tour - A competent authority may, by general or
special orders and on such conditions as it thinks fit to impose, permit and
government employee or class of government employee to draw mileage allowance
instead of daily allowance for the whole period of any absence from heading
quarters if it considers that the nature of the Government employee’s duty is
such that daily allowance is not sufficient to cover his travelling expenses.
2.44 (a) Exchange of daily allowance for mileage allowance
on any particular journey - Subject
to any conditions which a competent authority may, by general or special order
special order impose, a Government employee may exchange his daily allowance
for mileage allowance for mileage allowance on any day on which-
(i)
he travels
by railway or steamer or both, or
(ii)
he travels
more than 32 kilometres by road: provided that, if a continuous journey extends
over mote than one day, the exchange must be made for all such days and not for
a part only of them.
Note: Short
journeys, within a radius of 8 kilometres from headquarters, may not be added
to other journeys, when calculating the distance travelling by road or the
amount of mileage allowance admissible for road journeys.
(b) When a journey by road is combined with a
journey by railway or steamer, under clause (a) (i) of this rule, mileage
allowance may be drawn on second of such journey by road.
Note: If actual
places of duty fall outside the 8 kilometers radius at the outstation, road
mileage allowance may be allowed under rule 2.44(b) (ii). But it places of duty only. The above distinction of places within 8
kilometres radius and beyond can be made as daily allowance which is a uniform
allowance for each day of absence from the headquarters which is intended to
cover the ordinary daily charges incurred by a Government employee in
consequence of such absence. The
ordinary daily charges can reasonably be held to include the cost of journeys
within a radius of 8 kilometres from the place of halt. Thus a Government employee who halts at a
place for a day and draws daily allowance will not be entitled to draw mileage
allowance for journeys within 8 kilometres of his camp. Similarly it may be held that when a
Government employee arrives at his camp after making a railway journey and
performs short journeys within8kilometres of his camp he is not entitled to any
road mileage, if he halts at his camp and draws daily or halt daily allowance,
as the case may be.
2.45. In addition to the mileage allowance for
journeys by rail, or by sea, or river steamer or by road admissible under rule
2.44, the Government employee may draw a half daily allowance for the days of
departure and arrival, including days of department from and arrival at
headquarters.
Note 1 If
on any one-day two separate journeys are performed, on ending at, and the other
commencing from headquarters, one-half daily allowance will be admissible in
respect of each separate journey.
Note 2 In
the case of a Government employee who, while on tour, is treated as a
state-Guest, the half daily allowance, admissible to him for the days of
arrival at and departure from his place of halt where he is treated as a State
Guest, will be half of the reduced daily allowance to which he may be entitled
under Note (2) below rule 2.24 (C), whereas the half daily allowance for the
days of departure from and arrival at other places will be half of the daily
allowance ordinarily admissible to him.
Note 3 In
the case of Government employee whose absence from his headquarters does not
exceed 24 hrs, but falls on two calendar days, half daily allowance will be
admissible for the first calendar day as well as for the second notwithstanding
the provisions of rule 2.15 of the Civil Services Rules, Volume I, Part I,
provided that rail fare or mileage is drawn under rule 2.44 for journeys to and
from his headquarters.
The
criterion for admitting half daily allowance in such cases being whether any
Government duty was performed at the outstation or not no half daily allowance should
be allowed to Government employees simply for stopping at a place for rest or
for catching the available train/bus on the following day. The controlling officer of the Government
employee shall have to record a certificate to this effect.
2.46 When a journey by road is performed in a
private motor vehicle which is not the property of the Government employee,
travelling allowance will be regulated by rule 2.100.
Note 1 When
two or more Government employees travel in a motor vehicle belonging to one of
them the travelling allowances of the owner of the vehicle will be regulated by
the ordinary rules and the travelling allowance of the other Government
employee travelling with owner will be regulated by rule 2.100 even though he
may have incurred some expenses for the use or propulsion of the vehicle in
question.
Note 2 The
words “private motor vehicle” used in this rule do not include public motor
vehicle playing for the hire or cars borrowed from friends or relatives other
than officers subordinate or junior to the person performing the mileage, if
the officers pay all the charges for their propulsion.
Note 3 When
a Government employee travels in a Motor Vehicle borrowed from a friend or a
relative, who is a private individual, between stations connected by rail, he
shall be entitled to mileage allowance as under: -
|
If he pay full propulsion charges
himself |
Actual cost of propulsion charges not
exceeding one rail fare of the class of accommodation to which he is entitled
to travel. |
|
If he pays ½ propulsion charges
himself. |
Actual cost of propulsion charges paid
by him not exceeding half the railway fare of the class of accommodation to
which he is entitled to travel |
In addition
he may charges half daily allowance for the days of departure and arrival plus
allowance for incidental expense admissible to him or journey by rail in
accordance with note 7 below Rule 2.24 ibid.
Exception: When a Government employee travels in another
officer’s car between station connected by rail and does not pay and expenses
for the use or propulsion of the vehicle, his travelling allowance shall be
regulated under Note (7) below rule 2.245(D), The Government employee shall be
entitled to daily allowance under rules 2.100 and 2.105, for such a journey
between stations not connected by rail.
When such a journey is performed between places partly connected he
shall be allowed the incidental expenses under Note (7) below rule 2.24(D) but
the half daily allowance admissible to him in addition under this Note shall
not be allowed for the days on which he gets daily allowance in respect of the
portion not connected by rail.
The Government employees will not, however, be entitled
to any thing for journeys covered by this rule, from duty point (i.e., the
place/office of employment at his headquarters), to Railway Station and vice
versa, except that they will draw half daily allowance for the days of
departure or arrival as the case may be under the normal rules.
Explanation: The term “Propulsion charges” used in
this rule in cludes only the driving charges, i.e., the cost of petrol and
mobil, oil etc., but does not include the charges on account of the wear and
tear of the vehicle or the pay of the driver.
2.47. Actual
expenses of maintaining camp during a sudden journey away from it - A competent authority may permit any
Government employee who is compelled by a sudden emergency to leave his camp
and travel rapidly on duty to a place more than 32km distance, to draw, in
addition to mileage allowance, the actual cost of maintaining his camp, whether
the camp be moved or not: provided that the amount of actual cost drawn shall
not exceed the daily allowance of his grade.
2.48. Actual
expenses on first and last journey of an extensive tour - A Government employee entitled to daily
allowance, whom sphere of duty extends over the whole State may, when making a
journey of more than 160 k. m. to the first or from the last camp of an
extensive tour, recover, in lieu of the daily allowance admissible for the days
occupied by such journey, the whole necessary cost of the journey, including
the cost of transportation of camp equipment and of employees, horses,
motor-cars, motor cycles, bicycles and private baggage on such scale as a
competent authority may prescribe.
Note: for the scale fixed under this rule see Appendix N.
2.49. Government
employees whose duties require them to travel constantly by railway - When a member of the railway police, or
any other Government employee class of Government employees, whose duties
involve constant travelling by railway and to whom a competent authority may
declare this rule to be applicable, makes a journey by railway on tour: -
(i)
He is
entitled either to a free pass under the free pass rules of the railway or to
the fares for himself and the employees and luggage accompanying him which a
free pass would cover.
(ii)
He may draw
daily allowance for any day on which he is absent from his headquarters for
more than eight consecutive hours.
(iii)
He may not
exchange for mileage allowance the allowances admissible under sub-clauses (i)
and (ii) of this rule.
(iv)
If he
combines with a railway journey, a journey by steamer or road, he may, if he
travels to a place distant at least 8 k m. from the point where he leaves the
railway or return to the railway from a place similarly distant, draw mileage
allowance for the journey by steamer or road in addition to daily allowance, if
any, admissible under this rule: provided that the time spent on the journey by
steamer or road shall be deducted in calculating the duration of the absence
from his headquarters.
Note 1 If
in the exigency of public service, such officers travel by road only, their
travelling allowance will be government by rule 2.44.
Note 2 The
travelling allowance of the Stenographer to the Assistant Inspector-General,
Government Railway Police, Punjab, will be government by the rules.
(iv) Travelling Allowance admissible for journeys and halts within 8 km. of headquarters
2.50 (a) Conveyance
Hire - A competent authority
may, by general or special order, permit any Government employee or class of
Government employees to draw the actual cost of hiring a conveyance on a
journey for which no travelling allowance is admissible under these rules.
Note 1 This
rule is designed to cover cases in which it is equitable to allow Government
employees to draw the actual cost of conveyance where the circumstances are not
exactly covered by any other existing rule.
It is, therefore, applicable to case in which a Government employee is
transferred from one office to another within the same stations accompanied by
a change in residence.
Note 2 This
rule is not intended to cover cases where a non-gazetted Government employee or
Class IV Government employee is despatched on duty to a place at some distance
from his office or is summoned to his office by a special order of a gazetted
officer outside the ordinary hours of duty.
In such cases, the expenditure involved may be paid by Government and
charged to contingencies, provided—
(a)
that the
head of the office certifies that the expenditure actually incurred was
unavoidable and is within the scheduled scale of charge for the conveyance
used;
(b)
that the
Government employee concerned is not entitled to draw travelling allowance
under the ordinary rule for the journey, and that he is not granted any
compensatory level ,and does not and will not otherwise receive any special
remuneration for the performance of the duty which necessitated the journey.
2.51. Ferry
charges, tolls and railway fare - A Government employee travelling on duty within 8 k. m. of his
headquarters is entitled to recover the actual amount, which he may have to
spend to payment of ferry and other tools and fares for journeys, by railway or
other public conveyance.
2.52. Actual
expenses of maintaining camp equipage during the halt at headquarters - On the following conditions and any other
conditions which it may think fit to impose, a competent authority may, by
general or special order, permit any Government employee or class of class of
Government employee to recover the actual cost of marinating camp equipage
during a halt at headquarters or within 8 k. m. of headquarters or during the
interval between the Government employee’s departure from or arrival at
headquarters and that of his camp equipage: -
(a)
The amount
drawn, together with any amount recovered under rule 2.51 should not exceed the
daily allowance of his grade.
(b)
The period of
the halt or interval for which it is granted should not exceed ten days. An absence on duty from the halting place
for less than three nights should not be treated as interrupting the halt or
interval.
(c)
The
Government employee must certify that he had maintained the whole or part of
his camp equipage during the halt or interval and that the expense of
maintenance has not been less than the amount drawn in the case of a
non-gazetted or Class IV employee, the head of the office must certify that
such maintenance was necessary.
(d)
The
expenses of maintenance of camp equipage during halts at headquarters is the
difference between the actual outlay incurred by a Government employee in
maintaining the equipage during that time and the outlay he would incur if he could
discharge it and had nothing to do with it till he wanted it again. Interest on capital outlay, and charges on
account of depreciation and repairs as well as the upkeep of horses, etc., used
only for the conveyance of the Government employee on his marches, can not be
reckoned in actual expenses of keeping up camp equipage. The cost of maintaining camp equipage hired
during the month may be included in the expenses.
(e)
A
Government employee who, while halting at headquarters and drawing allowance
under this rule makes a jouney of 8 k. m. or less, returning the same day to
headquarters, may be granted allowance under both this rule and rule 2.51 (b),
subject to the restriction contained in clause (a) of this rule that the total
sum received shall not exceed the daily allowance.
(f)
In the case
of Clerks and Munshies, riding houses and riding camels are included in the
camp equipage in maintenance of which during halts at headquarters, allowance
within certain limits are admissible under this rule.
SECTION VIII –JOURNEYS TO JOIN A FIRST APPOINTMENT
2.53. General
rules - Except as otherwise
provided in this Section travelling allowance is not admissible to any person
for the journey to join his first post in Government service.
Note: Travelling
allowance is not admissible for a journey undertaken to procure a health
certificate required on first appointment to Government service.
2.54. Concession
to persons re-employed in Government services - When a pensioner or Government employee who has been
thrown out of employment owing to a reduction of establishment or the abolition
of his post, is re-appointed to Government service, the authority, which
sanctions his re-appointment may, permit him to draw travelling allowance for
so much of his journey to join his new post as falls within India as for a
journey on tour without any allowance for halts on the journeys.
2.55. Concession
to persons appointed to Europe - Any person appointed, while resident in Europe, by the High
Commissioner for India in London, may draw mileage allowance for the journey to
join his first post from any port in India at which, with the permission of the
authority appointing him, he may disembark.
2.56. When Travelling allowance is drawn under
rules 2.53 to 2.55, the rate admissible is that of the grade to which the
Government employee will belong, after joining his post.