SECTION IX –JOUNEYS ON TRANSFER

 

2.57.    General conditions of admissibility - Travelling allowance may not be drawn under this Section by a Government employee on transfer from one station to another unless he is transferred for the public convenience and is entitled to pay during the period occupied by the journey.  A transfer at his own request should not be treated as a transfer for the public convenience unless the authority sanctioning the transfer, for special reasons which should be recorded, otherwise directs.

 

Note 1             A Government employee appointed to a post under the Punjab Government as a result of competitive examination which is open to both Government employees and others: -

 

(a)                if already holding a substantive a appointment under Government (including other Governments in India) should be granted travelling allowance for joining the post, and

(b)               if already employed in a temporary capacity under Government (including other Government in India) should not be granted travelling allowance for joining the post, unless in any particular case, the competent authority otherwise directs.

 

Note 2             No travelling allowance shall be admissible in cases where no change of residence is involved consequent on the transfer of a Government employee, as it is quite contrary to the spirit of the rules to allow Travelling Allowance when no move has actually taken place.

 

Audit Instruction--      When a Government employee is transferred to otherwise than for the public convenience, a copy of the order of transfer should be sent to the audit officer of the circle of audit in which he is serving, with an endorsement stating the reason for transfer.  In the absence of such an endorsement the audit officer shall assume that the Government employees, has been transferred for the public convenience.  In the case of non-gazetted Government employees, a certificate from the head of the office will be accepted in lieu of the copy of the order of transfer.

 

2.58.    A Government employee may draw travelling allowance under this section for a journey from military to civil employ;

 

2.59 (a)            Journeys from Military to civil employ - Unless in any case it be otherwise expressly provided in these rules, a Government employee is entitled for a journey on transfer, to the following concessions: -          

1.                  For journeys by rail or steamer:

 

(i)                  He may draw actual fare of the class of accommodation to which his grade entitles him, plus 4 times the allowance for incidental expenses, prescribed in rule 2.25-A.

(ii)                He may draw one extra fare for each audit member of his family who accompanies him and for whom full fare is actually paid and one half fare for each child for whom such fare is actually paid.

 

Note 1             Government employee and /or his family member(s) may travel by road transport, viz. motor omnibus, etc. between stations connected by rail, and charges actual fare paid for such  transport, supported by actual car tickets, or the railway fare(s) of the class to which he is entitled, whichever is less, and draw, in addition, the allowance for incidental expenses admissible to him for journeys on transfer.  In case a Government employee travels by omnibus, a certificate to the effect that the amount charged was actually incurred as bus fare(s) should be given.

 

Note 2             The concession as envisaged under Note (5) below rule 2.24 (A) may be availed of for journeys on transfer also.

 

(iii)               He may draw the actual cost of carriage by goods train, steamer or other craft, including country boats, of personal effect, up to following maxima: -

 

Grade of Government employee

Officers possessing no family

Officers possessing family

 

Grade

Quintals

Quintals

1st Grade

30

45

2nd Grade

15

22

3rd Grade

10

12

4th Grade

2 ½

04:

 

Note:               The Government employee may in addition draw a packing, loading and unloading allowance at the rate of rupee one and twenty five paise per Quintal, subject to maximum of Rs.40.  No separate receipts are required for payment of packing, loading and unloading charges and that the receipt showing the quantity of luggage transported by a Government employee should suffice.

 

Provided that (1) a competent authority may prescribe lower maxima in the case of any specified class of Government employees, and (2) if a Government employee who carries his personal effects by road between stations concerned by railway or steamer, may draw actual expenses up to a limit of the amount which would have been admissible had he taken the same quantity by goods train or streamer provided that in case where the actual expenses claimed exceed this limit, a competent authority may allow such claims for valid reason subject to the limit of amount which would have been admissible if the maximum umber of quintals had been transported by good train or steamer.

 

Note 1.            If a Government employee carries his personal effects by  of by goods train he may draw the actual cost of carriage up to a limit of the amount which would have been admissible , had he taken the maximum number of quintals by goods train.

 

Note 1. -a        subject to the prescribed maximum number of quintals, a Government employee who carries his personal effects by air, may draw actual expenses up to the limit of the amount which would have been admissible had he taken the same quantity by passenger train (up to the limit of the amount which would have been admissible had he taken the maximum number of quintals by goods train), road or steamer, as the case may be, under normal rules.

 

Note 2             Charges for the transport of personal effects, tents, houses and motor cars of a Government employee on transfer may be admitted in audit if they do not for good and sufficient reasons accompany him but are carried within a reasonable time before or after the date of his journey on transfer.

 

Note 3             Claims preferred under this rule for the carriage of person all effects should be admitted in all cases at the lowest available rates for “smalls”.  “Smalls” are defined as goods which of them selves do not constitute a working –load for the unit of railway transport, the wagon.  The minimum load constituting a wagonload is specified by each of the railways who quote reduced rates for wagonloads in its tariffs.

 

Note 4             subject to the prescribed maximum umber of quintals a Government employee may draw the actual cost of transporting personal effects to his new station from a place in India other than his old station(i,g. from a place where they are purchased on route, or have been left on the occasion of a previous transfer) or from his old station to a place in India other than his new station, provided that the total amount drawn, including the cost of transporting these personal effects, shall not exceed that admissible, had the maximum number of quintals been transported by good train from the old to the new station direct.

 

Note 5             Motor cars or other conveyances shall be deemed a part of personal effects for the purpose of this rule in all cases where a Government employee is entitled to travelling allowance for transport under rule 2.59 (a) (i).

 

Note 6             The cost of transportation of personal effects on transfer may be allowed, subject to the maximum number of quintals prescribed under this rule, at the “Quick Transit Service “ rates. If personal effects are actually transported by such service.  A certificate to the effect that the personal effects were transported by the “Quick Transit Service” and that they reached the destination within the specified period, should be recoded by the claimant on the Travelling Allowance Bill.

 

(iv)              He may draw the actual cost of transporting at owner’s risk conveyances and horses on the following scales: -

 

Grades of Government Employees

Scale Allowed

 

First

Two horses and a carriage or motorcar or motorcycle or ordinary cycle.

 

Second

One horse and a carriage or motor car (whichever is less) or a motor cycle or ordinary cycle;

 

 

Third

 

 

 

One horse or a motor cycle or ordinary cycle except for Zilladars in the Irrigation Branch, for whom the scale is two horses or one horse and one mule:

 

            Provided that---          

1        the distance traveled exceeds 128 k. m.

2        the Government employee is travelling to join a post in which the possession of a conveyance of houses is advantageous from the point of view of his efficiency; and

3        conveyance or horses are actually carried by rail , steamer, or other craft.

 

Note 1             In the case of a motor car, the cost of transporting a chauffeur, cleaner, and for each horse, the cost of transporting one syce, may be drawn.

 

Note 2             When a Government employee transporting his motor car, motor cycle or horse and a carriage horse, by road under its own power between stations connected by rail or steamer or partly by rail and partly by steamer, he may draw an allowance of 8 paise per kilometre in respect of the motor car, 4 paise per k. m. in respect of the motor cycle or horse, and 6 paise per k. m. for a horse and carriage, the distance to be reckoned for the purpose of this concession being limited to the distance between the stations by rail or steamer or both combined,  as the case may be.  If the Government employee himself and or any member of his family travels by the motor car, motor cycle, horse or horse and a carriage he may at his option, draw in lieu of this allowance the railway fare which would have been admissible, if the journey had been performed by rail.  No railway fare will be allowed for the chauffeur or syce, as the case may be, even though be actually travels by rail.

 

Note 3             The actual cost of transporting includes empty haulage charge, if any is levied by the railway authorities, for a covered carriage, or a motor car, truck if one is not available at the station of dispatch, and has to be obtained from elsewhere.  When a conveyance or a horse is transported by steamer , the actual cost of transporting it may, for purpose of this rule include besides the freight other incidental charges such as ghat pass, river dues, loading and unloading charges.

 

Note 4             If a Government employee possessed a conveyance or horse at the station from which he is transferred, he may draw the actual cost of transporting a conveyance or horse, respectively from a place in India other than his former station: provided that the amount so drawn shall not exceed that admissible had the conveyance or horse been transported from the old to the new station direct, and provided further that the conveyance or horse is actually transported to the new station within a reasonable time before after officer is transferred.  In the case of Government employee who has not possessed a conveyance or, horse in the station, from which he is transferred.  But takes one to the new station from some other place, the above expenses may be allowed, with sanction of Government.

 

Note 5             When a Government employee, who is transferred from a post in which the possession of a conveyance or horse is advantageous from the point of view of his efficiency to another post in which it is not advantageous, is again transferred within a period not exceeding four months, to a post in which the possession of the conveyance or horse is advantageous from the point of view of his efficiency, he may draw the cost of its transport, from the first station to the last station: provided that the conditions in sub-clause (iv) are fulfilled and he certifies that the conveyance or horse was possessed by him at the first station.

 

Note 6             Omitted.

 

Exception:       A Government employee who travels by a Government steamer is not entitled for the journey by steamer to the concessions allowed by this clause.  He is entitled to free transport of himself, his family, servants and their bonafide personal effects and of conveyance and horses subject to the limits prescribed in sub-clause (iv) and may draw in addition the daily allowance of his grade.

 

Note:               The expression “free transport of bonafide personal effects” is not intended to include incidental charges incurred by an officer travelling by a Government steamer.

 

II.                 For a journey by road

 

(i)                  He may draw two mileages at the rate to which his grade entitles him, a third if two members of his family accompany him and a fourth, if more than two members accompany him.

(ii)                For the transportation of personal effects within the limits prescribed in clause I (iii) of this rule, he may draw mileage allowance at the rate fixed by competent authority.  Should the prescribed means of transport be not available, he shall append to his bill a certificate, duly countersigned by his Controlling Officer, to the effect that he used the cheapest from of transport (to be specified) available and he may then draw mileage allowance at the rate prescribed for that form of transport.

 

Note 1             Children whatever their age, are included in the term “members of family” as used in clause I (ii) above.

 

Note 2             Appendix H prescribes the ordinary means and the rates for free transport by road of personal effects of Government employees on transfer under this rule.

 

Note 3             If the number of quintals of personal effects transported by a Government employee exceeds the limits prescribed in clause I (iii) of this rule, he may draw actual expenses subject to the limit of amount which would have been admissible if the maximum number of quintals had been transported by him.

 

(b)        The following explanations are given of terms employed in rule 2.59 (a):

 

(i)                  The term “personal effects “ is not subject to definition, but the controlling officer must satisfy himself that a claim to reimbursement on account of their transportation is reasonable.

 

(ii)                The term “motor cycle” includes a side-car.

 

(iii)               A member of a Government employee’s family who follows him within six month from the date of his transfer or precedes him by not more than one month may be treated as accompanying him. If such member travels to the new station from a place other than the Government employee’s old station, the Government employee may draw the actual fare for the journey made by such members, by rail or steamer plus the road mileage, if any, at the rate and subject to the conditions prescribed in clause (a) II (ii) for the actual distance of the road, journey performed by such member: provided that their sum shall not exceed the total mileage allowance that would have been admissible had such member proceeded from the old to the new had such member proceeded from the old to the new station.  For the purpose of this rule, the grade of a Government employee should be determined with reference to the facts on the date of his transfer while the number of faces admissible should be determined with reference to the facts on the date of the journey in respect of which the travelling allowance is claimed subject to the condition that no travelling allowance would be admissible in respect of a member added to the family after the date transfer.

 

(c)                Tents, supplied by Government are transported at the expense of Government. Tents purchased and maintained by a Government employee himself may e transported at the expense of Government employees himself may be transported at the expense of Government: provided that they do not exceed a scale to be prescribed in this behalf by a competent authority as suitable to a particular Government employee or class of Government employees.  If they exceed this scale, the excess may be treated as part of personal effects.

 

(d)               A Government employee who claims higher travelling allowance on the ground that members of his family accompanied him on transfer must support his claim by a certificate showing the number and relationship of the said members.

 

(e)                A Government employee claiming the cost of transporting personal effects, must support his claim by a certificate that the actual expenses incurred was not less than the sum claimed.  He should state in the certificate the weight of personal effects actually carried and the amount actually paid for their transport separately by rail, road, steamer or other crafts and the Controlling Officers should record a certificate that he has actually scrutinized the details and satisfied himself that the claim is reasonable.

 

Note:               Every claim for the actual cost of transporting personal effects made in a travelling allowance bill on transfer should be supported by receipts and vouchers, whenever possible, in respect of the expenditure incurred.  The railway and steamer authorities grant receipts for the charges actually paid when personal effects and the like are booked by rail or steamer and there should be no difficulty in producing the receipt in such cases.

 

(f)         A Government employee claiming the cost of transporting a conveyance or a horse by rail or steamer must supports his claim by the railway or steamer receipt.  In case, where the receipt has been lost or has been surrendered to the railway or steamer authorities without a cash receipt having been obtained in exchange and where the production of a duplicate receipt is likely to involve a disproportionate amount of trouble, the audit officer may , at his discretion, dispense with the production of the receipt and accept a certificate to the effect that the amount claimed was not more than the expenses actually incurred.

 

2.60.    A Government employees transferred from one post to ano0ther who under the orders of competent authority, is permitted to hand over charge of his old post or to take over chare of the new post at a place other than the headquarters, is entitled to: -

 

(1)               Actual fare plus allowance for incidental expenses from the place of handing over charge to the place of taking over; as prescribed in rule 2.25-A

 

(2)               Three times the allowance for incidental expenses, as prescribed in rule 2.25-A from his old to his new headquarters;

 

(3)               All the further concession admissible under rule 2.59 (a) except the actual fare by rail plus four times the allowance for incidental expenses, allowance by road referred to in clause II (i).

 

2.61.    A Government employee who, in consequence of his transfer or deputation on a course of training in which travelling allowance at transfer rates in allowed, is obliged to send his family to a station other than his new headquarters or place of training, may draw travelling allowance for his family to that other station, subject to the condition that it does not exceed the travelling allowance which would have been admissible, if his family had accompanied him to his new headquarters or place of training.

 

2.62.    Government employees whose duties involve constant travelling by railway - The members of the railway police or other Government employees, whose duties involve constant travelling by railway specified in rule 2.49 may draw travelling allowance under that rule for journeys on transfer within the limits of the railway to which they are attached, and are entitled, in addition to a free pass or fares for their families; provided that they must not draw daily allowance for halts in the course of the journey unless such halts are made in connection with their duty.  When transferred from one railway to another, they are entitled to travelling allowance under rules 2.57 to 2.59, as on transfer.

 

2.63.    Government employees appointed to a new post while in transit - A Government employee appointed to a new post, while in transit from one post to another post to another is entitled to draw travelling allowance under this Section for so much of the journey on transfer as he has accomplished when he receives the fresh orders and for the journey from the place at which he receives such orders to his new station.

 

2.64.    Government employee taking short leave before joining post - A Government employee, who goes on leave not exceeding 120 days after he has made over charge of his old post and before he has taken charge of his new post, is entitled, whether the order of transfer is received before or after the commencement of his leave, to travelling allowance under this Section from his old headquarters to his new station.

 

Note:   The provisions of Note (4) to clause I(iii) and of Note (5) to clause I (v) of rule 2.59 (a) apply here also.

 

2.65.    A Government employee who received order of transfer while on leave not exceeding 120 days, at a station other than his head quarters and proceeds by railway direct there from with his family to join his new post, travelling by a class lower than that to which he is entitled, may draw travelling allowance as below: --

 

(i)                  For self: -

(a)                Actual railway-fare for the direct railway journey, plus

(b)               Four times the allowance for incidental expenses from the old to the new station,

(ii)                for family :--

for each member, one or half fare, as the case may be ,as in (i) (a) above subject to the provisions of rules 2.59 (b) (iii).

 

Note:   In the case of an officer who proceeds to the new station partly by the class of accommodation to which he is entitled and partly by a lower class the one fare referred to in clause (i) (a) should be calculated partly by the class of accommodation to which he is entitled and partly by the lower class actually used in proportion to the distance actually travelled by those classes from the station at which leave was being spent to the new station even though the total amount actually paid by the officer be more than what would have been admissible for a direct journey from the old to the new station by the appropriate class of his grade.

 

2.66.    Government employee taking long leave while in transit - A Government employee who takes leave exceeding 120 days while in transit from one post to another, may draw travelling allowance as on transfer under rules 2.58 and 2.59 (a) except the transportation charges of his personal effects and conveyances, for so much of the journey to join the new post as he has accomplished before the order granting his leave is received in addition to any allowance admissible under rule 2.67.

 

2.67.    Government employee posted to a new station on return from long leave - When on return form leave exceeding one hundred and twenty days a Government employee is posted to a station other than that at which he was posted when he went on leave, the Controlling Officer may permit him transportation charges or his personal effects and to recover the travelling allowance under sub- clause (iii) and (iv) of clauses (i) and sub-clause (ii) of clause of II of sub-rule (a) of rule 2.50 as for a journey from his old to his new station.

 

            (2)        In cases where a Government employee has been on leave for more than one hundred and twenty days either on medical grounds or on study leave, and is posted to another station on return from such leave, he may be allowed full transfer travelling allowance, as admissible under the normal State Travelling Allowance Rules.

 

Note:   The provisions of Note 4 to Sub-clause (iii) and Note 5 to sub-clause(iv) of clause 1 of sub-rule (a) of rule 2.59 apply here also.

 

Note: - The provision of Note 4 under sub-clause 9iii0 and that of Note 5 under sub –clause (iv) of clause I of sub rule (a) of rule 2.29 apply here also.

 

2.68.    When a Govt. employee under the administrative control of one Government is transferred to the control of another Government which had made rules prescribing amounts and conditions of travelling allowance, his travelling allowance for the journey to join his post under the borrowing Government and for the return journey will be governed by the rules of the borrowing Government relating to travelling allowance on transfer.  This rule will also apply even to cases where the Government employee takes leave either before joining that post or before returning to his original post.

 

Note:   The controlling officer for the purpose for the purpose of travelling allowance for the journey of a Government employee to join his post under a borrowing Government as well as for the return journey will be the Controlling Officer in regard to his post under that Government.

 

           

SECTION X –JOURNEY TO A HILL STATION

 

2.69.    Special rules, which are not included in these Rules, Government the grant of travelling allowance to Government employees moving to hill station with the headquarters of Government.

 

2.70.    Journey made under the orders of superior authority - A Government employee, other than a Government employee moving with the headquarters of Government, who travels on duty, to a hill station, within his sphere of duty, or is required by the orders of a superior authority to travel to a hill station on duty, may draw travelling allowance during his absence as for a journey on tour.  Such a Government employee will, however, forfeit all claim to travelling allowance for the halt at the hill station and the journey between the hill station and the stations visited immediately before and after the halt at that station, other than permanent travelling allowance, if he prolongs his stat at the hill station, beyond a period of ten days or the period ne4cessary for the performance of the duty on which the journey is made, whichever is less, provided that a competent authority may by general or special order preserve the Government employee’s claim to Travelling allowance by: -

 

(a)                Sanctioning a halt in excess of ten days, or

(b)               Officially intimating that his presence was required on duty throughout the period or that he was permitted to extend his stay during holidays immediately following his period of duty.

 

Explanations :

1        The term “holidays” as used in this rule includes casual leave .

2        A competent authority may give a Government employee, who has come to a hill station on casual leave and is there required to perform duty, mileage to and from the hill station and daily allowance for the days, he performs duty.  Consent of the Finance Department is not presumed to the grant of mileage allowance in this case not to the grant of daily allowance, if the total stay at the hill station, including casual leave, exceeds tin days.  Save in altogether exceptional cases, the grant of mileage allowance is not admissible.

 

Exceptions:

(1)               Where station leave or other leave not exceeding tow days (including a Sunday or other holidays) is combined with a tour to a hill station the Government employee concerned will be allowed T.A for journeys both to and from the hill station as admissible under the rules and daily allowance for the actual days of duty only.

 

(2)               Where station leave or other leave is taken in excess of two days in combination with a tour to a hill station the Government employee concerned will be allowed T.A. for the journey to the hill station plus daily allowance for the actual days of duty only.  No T.A. shall be permissible for the return jouney.  If an officer uses a staff car on such journeys, he shall have to pay for the return journey as forward journey and daily allowance for the actual days of duty will be admissible only if the leave does not exceed sixteen days (the size of a normal spell of casual leave).

 

Note 1            The concessions in Exceptions (1) and (2) above are subject to the conditions that : -

                       

(a)                permission for leave has been obtained before the performance of the journey; and

(b)               the sanctioning authority is satisfied that the particular tour is not one specially fixed by the government employee to fit in with such a leave arrangement.

 

Note 2             The administrative Department or the officer who normally sanctions the tour and signs the T.A bills if the Government employee concerned will be competent to sanction the grant of T.A. and daily allowance on the lines indicated above.

 

2.71     Omitted.

 

SECTION IX – JOURNEY TO A STATION OTHER THAN A HILL STATION

 

2.72.    When a Government employee is permitted for his own convenience, to perform his duties at a station other than his headquarters, he is not entitled to daily allowance or mileage allowance for the journey to or from such station or for the period during which he halts at it, and such Government employee must go to the station and back to his place of duty, wherever that may be, without expense to Government.  A competent authority may decide what should be considered to be the place of duty.

 

SECTION XII—JOURNEY TO ATTEND AN EXAMINATION

 

2.73.    General rule - Except for halts on the journeys, a Government employee is entitled to draw travelling allowance at tour rates for the journey to and from the place at which he appears for an examination of any of the following kinds: -

 

(a)                An obligatory department examination.

(b)               In the case of military officer in civil employ, an examination for promotion in military rank.

(c)                In the case of a Medical Officer, Assistant Medical Officer an examination designed to test his fitness to rise above an efficiency bar in a time scale:

 

Provided that: -

 

(1)               Travelling allowance shall not be drawn mote than twice for any particular examination; and

(2)               A competent authority may disallow travelling allowance under this rule to any candidate who, in its opinion: -

(i)                  has culpably neglected the duty of preparing himself for an obligatory examination.

(ii)        Does not display a reasonable standard of proficiency in an examination, which is not obligatory.

(d)               Any other examination specified by the competent authority.

 

Notes: For a list of examinations specified by competent authority under clause (d) see Appendix ‘L’.

 

2.74.    With the sanction of competent authority, travelling allowance under this Section may be permitted to a Government employee who, while travelling or during the examination, is on earned leave not exceeding 120 days.  The travelling allowance admissible in such cases would be that admissible from his previous (where he was last on duty) headquarters to the place of examination or from the place where he is spending his leave to the place of examination, whichever is less.

 

SECTION XIII –JOURNEY WHEN PRCEEDING ON OR RETURING FROM LEAVE OR WHILE UNDER SUSPENSION.

 

2.75.    General rule - Except a s otherwise provided in these Rules, a Government employee is not entitled to any travelling allowance for a journey made during leave or while proceeding on or returning from leave or while under suspension.  A competent authority may, for special reasons which should be recorded permit any Government employee to draw for such a journey, travelling allowance as for a journey on tour.  For this purpose a Government employee under suspension shall be regarded as in the grade to which he belonged before suspension.

 

Note:   Travelling allowance under this rule will be regulated by the pay and grade of the post which a Government employee would have held had he not preceded on leave.

 

Exception 1:    Once in every three years, Warders of the jail department in service on 1st April, 1950, may be granted, when proceeding on and returning from earned leave not exceeding 120 days single fare of the class to which they are entitled, each way to and from their homes for themselves only, provided their conduct has been uniformly good.

 

Note:   This concession is admissible also to Warders appointed on contract base.

 

Exception 2:    Members of the Punjab Railway Police whose homes lie in areas not served by the Northern Railway and who were in services on 1st April, 1950, may, when proceeding on leave to their homes, and returning from such leave be granted warrants for the fare by rail to which they are entitled, provided that-

 

1        they would be eligible for free passes if they were living within an area served by the Northern Railway, and

2        the number of warrants shall not exceed three return warrants per man in one year.

 

Note:   The intension underlying this exception is the Railway Police Officers who live within the areas served by foreign lines should have the same facilities as are enjoyed by officers who live at stations on the Northern Railway.  Railway warrants should, therefore, be granted not only to Railway Police Officers living at stations, on foreign lines but also to members of their families.

 

2.76.    Omitted.

 

2.77 (a) Government employees recalled to duty from leave - When a Government employee is compulsorily recall to duty before the expiry of his leave and the leave is thereby curtailed by not less than one month, he is entitled to draw mileage allowance for the journey from the place at which the order of recall reaches him or, if the return journey involves travelling by sea, from the port at which he lands in India, to the station to which he is less than a month, mileage allowance may be allowed at the authority recalling the Government employee.

           

(b)        If the Government employee, recalled to duty is entitled to travelling allowed under rule 2.64, he may not draw mileage allowance under clause (a) of this rule, unless he abandons his claims to the mileage allowance for himself specified in rule 2.59 (a) and II (i).

 

2.78     Travelling allowance during joining time when joining time when proceeding to or returning from a place in remote locality from or to a specified station - A Government employee entitled to joining time when proceeding from a specified station to join a post in place in a remote locality which is not easy of access or when returning from such a place in a remote locality to a specified station, may draw travelling allowance for the journey as for a journey on transfer.

 

Note:   This rule governs travelling allowance admissible in the case of leave or leave cum-transfer of a Government employee to whom rule 9.1(d) of the Rules in Volume I of these Rules applies.  The travelling allowance in the case of a straight transfer of such a Government employee is regulated by the rules in Section IX  (journeys on transfer) of this Chapter.

 

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