परीक्षा में शामिल होने के लिए यात्राएँ/इंटरव्यू से जुड़ी यात्राएं/पहली नियुक्ति में शामिल होने की यात्रा/न्यायालय में उपस्थित होने के लिए यात्राएँ/विभागीय जांच में साक्ष्य देने की यात्रा/प्रशिक्षण के दौरान यात्रा/रेलवे संस्थानों आदि की बैठकों में भाग लेने की यात्रा।/एक पद से दूसरे पद पर स्थानांतरण के दौरान नए पदों पर नियुक्ति के मामलों में स्थानांतरण यात्रा भत्ता/कुछ यात्रा हवाई मार्ग से और कुछ यात्रा मार्ग से

Journeys to join first appointment in Railway 

PARA 1652  Except as otherwise provided in these rules, traveling allowance is not admissible to any person for the journey to join his first post in Railway service.  When travelling allowance is drawn under Rules 1656 and 1657, the class of free pass and the rate of daily allowance and mileage will be those to which the Railway servant will be entitled after joining his posts. 

PARA 1653.  When a railway servant who is retiring from service or has been thrown out of employment owing to reduction of establishment or the abolition of his post, is reappointed to railway service, the authority which sanctions his reappointment may permit him to draw travelling allowance as on tour, for so much of his journey to join his new post as falls within India, but no Daily Allowance may be drawn for halts on the journey.  

PARA 1654. Any person appointed by the competent authority from abroad to railway service in India may draw transportation expenses as may be decided by the said authority for a journey from his residence to any port in India at which with the permission of the said authority, he may disembark.  He shall be entitled to draw travelling allowance, as on tour from that port to the station where he is posted. 

Journeys to attend examination

PARA 1656. A railway servant is entitled to draw traveling allowance for the journeys to and from the place at which he appears for: 

(i)    An obligatory departmental examination; 

(ii)   In respect of military officer in railway  employment, an examination for promotion in military rank. 

Provided that 

(a) Traveling allowance shall not be drawn under this rule more than twice for any particular examination or standard of examination; and 

(b)  A Head of Department may disallow travelling allowance under this rule to any candidate who, in his 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. 

NOTE. –For the purpose of this rule, qualifying examination for promotion above Grade II in the Clerical Staff of the Accounts Department up to and including the rank of Sub-head and Qualifying Examination for Promotion to the rank of Accountants Inspectors of Station Accounts and Inspectors of Stores Accounts, shall be treated as obligatory examinations. 

PARA  1657. Railway Board may permit a railway servant to draw travelling allowance for the journey to and from the place at which he appears for an examination other than those specified in Rule 1656. 

PARA 1658.  Traveling allowance for journeys under this section shall be calculated asfor a journey on tour but no allowance shall be drawn for halts on the journey. 

Journeys when called for interview

1659.  A Government servant summoned for interview in connection with the filling of a Railway Post other than an advertised one, may at the discretion of the authority competent to fill the post, be granted return journey free passes of the appropriate class but shall not be granted any other kind of travelling allowance. 

Railway Ministry’s decision 

This rule applies to the Government servant not employed on the Railway on which the post in connection with which he is summoned for interview is to be filled, or to Railway Servant summoned for interview by the Union Public Service Commission. 

1660.  A Railway servant summoned for interview and/or written test in connection with the filling up of a post other than an advertised post on the Railway on which he is employed, or in the Office of the Ministry of Railway/or in a Railway Administration in which a competent authority has authorized recruitment from the Indian Railways, should be deemed to have performed a journey on duty and given travelling allowance as on tour.

1661.  (1) A Railway servant on casual leave when called upon to attend a Selection Board in connection with a post in the normal line of promotion, shall be treated as on duty and allowed travelling allowance as on tour. In other cases i.e. in case of selection to posts which are outside the cadre to which a railway servant belongs or which are outside the normal line of promotion of the person concerned, the period involved should be treated as casual leave. 

(2)  A Railway servant when called upon by other Ministries/Department/Offices/Public Sector undertakings for interview in connection with appointment on deputation/foreign service to posts which are not advertised, and with which the Union Public Service Commission is not concerned, may be treated as on duty and they should be allowed return journey duty passes and Daily Allowance for to and for journey period.  No Daily Allowance  shall be payable for the period of halt in connection with such interviews. If any travelling allowance in the form of cost of journey, mileage etc. is paid by other ministries/departments/offices/public undertaking, the same should be credited to the railway revenues. 

(3) No travelling allowance will be paid to those persons who themselves apply for interview direct. 

(4) In cases where railway servants are called for interview for filling up posts by non-Government agency, each case would be considered on merits by the Railway Board as when a reference in the matter is received.  

Journeys on retirement, dismissal or termination of appointment

1666. (1) No person shall, without the sanction of the Ministry of Railways be entitled to any travelling allowance for a journey made after retirement or dismissal from railway service or after the termination of such service. 

(2) A Railway servant in the event of retirement and/or members of his family in the even of death of Railway servant, besides free passes admissible under the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986, shall be entitled to travelling allowance as admissible on transfer. 

(3) The time limit for performance of journey to home town/selected place of residence for the purpose of admissibility of travelling allowance under Sub-rule(2), is one year from the date of retirement.  This time limit of one year will also apply in the case of those Railway servants who are re-employed within one year after retirement and want to claim travelling allowance after the expiry of the period of re-employment. 

(4) Travelling allowance under sub-rule (2) above is admissible to a Railway servant retiring voluntarily, or on invalid/compensation pension.  The travelling allowance is not admissible to the employees who are dismissed/removed from service.  However, Railway employees who quit service by resignation for reasons not accepted as good and sufficient by the Railway Administration, will not be entitled to any travelling allowance as on transfer, but they shall be granted passes if admissible under Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986. 

(5) When a retired Railway servant undertakes a journey to an outstation to attend a departmental enquiry instituted against him/her pertaining to his/her service period, he/she may be allowed travelling allowance as given below:- 

(i)   A pass of the class to which he was entitled prior to retirement, or first class, whichever class is lower, for self only for the journey from his home town (declared as such for purposes of settlement passes) or from the actual place of residence, to the place of enquiry and back, whichever distance is shorter; and 

(ii)   Daily allowance for the journey including halts at the outstation. 

NOTE–The rate of daily allowance will be regulated in accordance with the pay drawn/post held by the retired Railway servant immediately prior to his retirement. 

(iii)  The payment of TA/DA would be subject to certification by the Inquiring Officer about the attendance of by the Railway servant. 

(iv)  No advance of traveling allowance would be admissible in such cases. 

(6)  When a retired railway servant undertakes a journey to an outstation for perusal of documents for preparation of his defence in a disciplinary case instituted against him,  he may be allowed the following TA/DA in one case only:- 

(i)   A pass of the class to which the retired railway servant was entitled prior to retirement, or first class whichever class is lower, for self only for the journey from his “Home Town” (declared as such for purposes of settlement passes), or from the actual place of residence, to the place where the documents are kept, whichever distance is shorter, and back, and 

(ii)  Daily Allowance for the period of journey and a maximum of 3 days only for halt at outstation.

NOTE. — (a) The rate of Daily allowance will be regulated in accordance with the pay drawn/post held by the retired railway servant immediately prior to his retirement; 

(b) In the case of those railway employees who retired prior to the revision of the pay scales, the rate of Daily Allowance for such journeys would be determined on the notional pay of the retired employee which will include, in addition to pay in the pre-revised scales, dearness pay, Dearness Allowance, Addl. Dearness Allowance, ad-hoc D.A. and Interim relief appropriate to that pay as admissible under orders in existence on 31-12-85. 

(iii) No advance of Traveling Allowance would be admissible. 

(iv) The grant of Travelling Allowance will also be subject to the condition that the inquiring officer certifies that the official records to be consulted are relevant and essential for the preparation of the defence statement. 

Section XVII – Journeys to attend court of law

1667. The following provisions apply to a railway servant who is summoned to give evidence: – 

(i)  In a criminal case, a trial before a Court martial, a civil suit, or proceedings to which Government is a party or a departmental enquiry held by a properly constituted authority in the Indian Union; or 

(ii)  Before a court in a foreign territory 

Provided that the facts as to which he is to give evidence have come to his knowledge in the discharge of his public duties: 

(a)  He may draw travelling allowance as for a journey on tour attaching to his TA Bill a certificate of attendance given by the Court or other authority which summoned him. 

(b) When he draws such travelling allowance he may not accept any payment of his expenses from the Court or authority.  Any fees which may be deposited in the Court for the travelling and subsistence allowance of the witness must be credited to the Railway Revenues. 

(c)  If the Court in which he gives evidence is situated within 8 kms. of his headquarters, and no traveling allowance, is, therefore, admissible to him for the journey, he may, if he be not in receipt of permanent travelling allowance, accept such payment of actual travelling expenses as the Court may  make.  

NOTE:-  A railway servant summoned to give evidence while on leave is entitled to travelling allowance under these Rules from and to the place from which he is summoned as if he were on duty. 

Government of India’s decisions 

(i)   Journeys connected with police inquiries-Travelling allowance is admissible to an Officer proceeding to a police station to lodge a complaint or give information of an offence, but under the orders of the Government of India in the Home Department No1163 dated the 14^th September, 1874, no allowance is admissible to an officer summoned by a police officer to give evidence before him. 

(G.I.F. & C.D. No.6170-P dated the 19^th December, 1894.)  

(ii)   The question of admissibility of travelling allowance to the officials of a department who are required by their superior officer to proceed from one station to another to appear before police officers or to accompany them to another station, has for some time past, been under the consideration of the Government of India, and it has been decided that whether the employee’s presence is required to give a statement or to assist generally in the police investigation, it is within the discretion of his superior officer who orders the Government servant to undertake the journey to grant travelling allowance for the journey as having been performed  on duty.  It has been held that this rule provides, merely for cases in which the court or other authority has the power of paying witnesses` expenses.  It is not the intention of the rules to forbid the grant of travelling allowance to a Government servant attending, under proper orders, inquiry whether police or departmental. 

(G.I.F.D. U.O.No. 6847-CSR dt. 15^th December,1926.) 

(iii) Where a railway servant whether under suspension or not, performs journey to attend police/special Police Establishment Enquiry in connection with a case in which he is suspected to be involved, travelling allowance as for a journey on tour may be allowed for such journeys provided that they are performed under the direction of, or with the approval of, the Head of the Office in which he is for the time being employed, or was employed, before suspension. 

(iv) Where a railway servant undertakes journey during suspension for appearing in a Court of Law as an accused and is later on acquitted by the Court and reinstated in service or would have been reinstated in service but for death or his having attained the age of compulsory retirement or being allowed to retire voluntarily, traveling allowance as on tour based on the grade to which the railway servant belonged before suspension may be reimbursed to him provided the legal expenses incurred by him in defending such proceedings are reimbursed in full or in part under Article 320 (3) (d) of the Constitution. 

(v)   Traveling Allowance in respect of following types of cases may be granted as indicated below: – 

(a)  Proceeding initiated by Government in respect of matters connected with the official duties or position of the railway servant.  In respect of such cases, travelling allowance may be granted as in Government of India’s Decision No. (iv) above. 

(b)  Proceedings in respect of matters not connected with official duties or position of the   railway servant: – 

      No Travelling Allowance is admissible in such cases 

(c)  Proceedings instituted by a private party against a railway servant in respect of matters connected with his official duties or position. 

(i)   If the Railway Administration on consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case consider that it will be in public interest that the Administration should themselves undertake the defence of the railway servant in such proceedings and if the railway servant agrees to such a course, the railway servant will be paid travelling allowance as for a journey on tour. 

(ii)  If the Railway servant purposes to conduct his defence in such proceedings himself, travelling allowance may be paid on the lines indicated in sub-rule (iv) above subject to the further condition that the travelling expenses are not decreed by the court of Law as payable by the plaintiff. 

(d)        Proceedings instituted by a Railway servant on his being required by Government to vindicate his official conduct. In respect of such cases, travelling allowance may be granted to the railway servant on the lines indicated in Government of India’s Decision No. (iv) above. 

(e)        Proceeding instituted by a railway servant suo moto with the previous sanction of the Government to vindicate his conduct arising out of or connected with his official duties or position.  In respect of such cases, no travelling allowance is admissible. 

1668. (1)   Every person, whether he is a Railway servant, Central or State Govt. servant or not, who is called to give evidence in a departmental inquiry by, either the Railway administration or the Railway servant against whom the inquiry is being held, shall be entitled to payment of travelling and other expenses as laid down below. 

(2)    Where the witness is a railway servant, he shall be entitled to receive, in respect of the attendance before the authority holding the departmental inquiry from the department or office under which he is serving  for the time being, payment of travelling allowance  as on tour. 

(3)    (i)   Where the railway servant is called in the departmental inquiry to give evidence as to facts which have come to his knowledge in the discharge of his public duties, the minimum time required to be spent by him on the journey to and from the place where the inquiry is held and the days on which he is required to remain present before the authority holding the inquiry, shall be treated as duty. 

(ii)   Provided that if the Railway servant is on leave, the entire time spent shall be treated as a part of the leave and he shall not be deemed to have been recalled to duty.

(iii)   Where a railway servant is called by any authority holding the departmental inquiry to give evidence as to facts which have come to his knowledge at a time when he was not in railway service, he may be paid travelling allowance as provided in clause (2) above. 

(4)   Where the witness is Central Govt./State Govt. servant, he shall be entitled to receive, in respect of the attendance before the authority holding the departmental inquiry, from the Central/State Govt. such travelling allowance and/or daily allowance as may be admissible to him under the rules applicable to him in that behalf in respect of a journey undertaken on tour and the amount so paid shall be the liability of the Railway administration.  The Central/State Govt. will, however, make the necessary payments and shall raise a debit in respect thereof against the Railway administration. 

(5)   Where a person who has been a Railway servant but has ceased to be so, is called to give evidence as to facts which might or might not have come to his knowledge in the discharge of his duties, or a person who is not a servant of the Union, is called to give evidence before any authority holding a departmental enquiry, such a person shall be entitled to claim from the Ministry or Department or office under whom the railway servant against whom the inquiry is being held is for the time being serving, travelling allowance under Rule 1696. 

(6)   The officer or the Board holding the inquiry shall furnish a certificate in the following Form to every person appearing before him or to give evidence. 

FORM 

This is to certify that Shri (Name, designation, office, etc.) appeared before me as a witness on …………….. at (place) …………….. in the departmental inquiry against Shri (Name, designation, etc.) and was discharged on………… at (time)………. 

Nothing has been paid to him on account of his travelling and other expenses. 

(SIGNATURE)
Disciplinary Authority/Board of
Inquiry-Inquiry Officer. 

Copy forwarded for information to the Ministry/Department of Secretary to the Govt. of (Name of State Government) Department. 

(7) The foregoing instructions shall also apply to a person assisting the Railway servant against whom the inquiry is held in presenting his case.  Such a person shall be granted a certificate in the following form by the authority holding the departmental inquiry. 

FORM 

This is to certify that Shri (Name, designation, office, etc.) attended the proceedings in the departmental inquiry against Shri (Name designation, etc.)  to assist the said designation, etc. and was discharged on …………….at (time)……. 

Nothing has been paid to him on account of his travelling and other expenses. 

(SIGNATURE)
Disciplinary Authority/Board of
Inquiry/Inquiring Officer/Appellate authority 

Copy forwarded for information to the Ministry/Department of……………… 

1669. In cases where railway servants whether on duty or on leave or under suspension, undertake journeys to an outstation to persue official records for the preparation of their defence in connection with the disciplinary proceedings instituted against them, travelling allowance as on tour and daily allowance (restricted to a maximum of three days only) will be allowed from the headquarters of the railway servant or from any other places where the railway servant may be spending his leave or where the suspended officer has been permitted on his request to reside, but not exceeding what would be admissible, had the journey been undertaken from the headquarters of the railway servant subject to the following further condition:- 

(i)   The disciplinary authority competent to permit inspection of documents/the Inquiring authority certifies that the official records to be consulted are relevant and essential for the preparation of the defence statement.  Such a certificate is necessary only in case where the accused railway servant asks for access to the documents which are not mentioned in the list of documents proposed to be relied upon by the Railway Administration. 

(ii)  the competent authority certifies that the original records could not be sent to the Headquarters station of the railway servant or the bulk of the documents ruled out the possibility of copies being made out and sent: 

(iii) the Head of office under whose administrative control the railway servant is, certifies that the journey was performed with his approval; and

(iv)  in case of officers not under suspension at the time of undertaking the journey, the period spent in transit to and fro and the minimum period of stay required at the place where the official records are made available for perusal, should be treated as duty or leave according as the officer is on duty or on leave at  that time, and in case of officers under suspension who are subsequently reinstated in service, the period will be treated as duty, leave or  otherwise in accordance with the orders passed by the competent authority under Rule 1345 (i) RII. 

1670.  A railway servant summoned to give evidence in circumstances other than those described in Rule 1663 or to serve as assessor or juror in a court of law, is not entitled, by reason of his position as a Government servant, to any payment other than those admissible by the rules of the court.  If the court pays him any sum as subsistence allowance or compensation apart from payment for travelling expenses, he must credit that sum to railway revenues before drawing full pay for the day or days of absence. 

NOTE: – This period spent by railway servant in attending court as juror and assessor with the permission of their respective Heads of Department, should be treated as special casual leave, which should not be debited to their casual leave accounts and no extra payment, except those admissible under these rules, should be made to them for such period. 

Government of India’s Orders 

The question has arisen whether an employee who is subject to the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 can legally pay to the department fees or sums received by him from court as subsistence allowance or compensation.  Such payment will amount to a deduction from wages within the meaning of the explanation to sub-section (i) to Section 7 of the payment of Wages Act, 1936 and is thus inadmissible under the provision to that Section. The employee, therefore, cannot legally be asked to credit to railway the subsistence allowance granted to him by the court. This difficulty can be solved by the issue of rules by the High Court to the effect that in the case of Government servant who are subject to the payment of Wages Act, 1936, such sums should be deposited by the court themselves in the treasury to the credit of the railway or office concerned. 

1671.  A railway servant who is summoned to give evidence of facts which came to his knowledge in the discharge of his duties or to produce official documents in a civil suit in which Government is not a party, will be paid travelling expenses etc.  by the court at the rates admissible to the railway servant for a journey on tour.  In order to enable the court to assess the amount admissible to him the railway servant should carry to the court a certificate duly signed by the Controlling Officer of the railway servant showing the rate of travelling and daily allowance admissible to him for a journey on tour.  If the railway servant is his own Controlling Officer, the certificate  will be signed by him as such. 

NOTE. –These orders do not apply in respect of attendance at courts in the West Bengal state. 

Section XVIII – Journeys by Railway servants under suspension

1672. A railway servant under suspension who is required to perform journey to attend a departmental inquiry, may be allowed travelling allowance as for a journey on tour from his headquarters or the place at which he has been permitted to reside during suspension to the place of inquiry whichever is less.  No travelling allowance will, however, be admissible if the inquiry is held at his won request.  The rate of daily allowance admissible will be the same to which a railway servant was entitled on his pay just before his suspension. 

Railway Ministry’s decision 

(1) Travelling allowance is admissible to a railway servant summoned to give evidence in a court of law while he is under suspension, but the period of his attendance at the court will be treated as suspension only. 

Journeys on a course of training

1685.   When a Railway servant is selected to undergo a course of training, he may draw travelling allowance as on tour-

(a)  For the original journey to and last journey from the place of of training.

(b)  If the training (journey) is at a school or college or similar institution, for similar journeys on the occasion of holidays and vacations; and

(c)  For journeys during the course of training.

For halts at the place of training, daily allowance will be admissible at full rate for the first 180 days.  Beyond 180 days, no daily allowance is admissible.  These provisions do not apply to probationers, temporary officers or persons in receipt of a stipend or to such Railway servants undergoing training in Railway Training Schools as are granted free messing or messing allowance in lieu of daily allowance under special orders or to such other Railway servant in respect of whom general or special orders may be issued by the President.

The limit of 180 days indicated above should be applied with reference to the halt of the journey at a particular place.  However, if the trainees have to stay at a particular place of training, for different spells of the same training programmes, all the different spells of stay should be kept together for determining entitlement to daily allowance for the purpose of this rule.

NOTE.–(i)  The Railway officers and staff deputed to attend training courses in the non-railway institutions where the Registration/Course fee includes the cost of board and lodging or the cost of board and lodging has to be borne by the Railway Administration, will be granted 20% of the Daily Allowance to which they would otherwise be entitled under the normal rules.

(ii) No Daily Allowance or any part thereof will be admissible to those trainees whose normal headquarters are at the place of training itself.

(iii)  The Apprentices selected from amongst the serving railway employees as Probationary ASMs, Guards etc. Shall be eligible for free messing plus 20% Daily allowance, otherwise admissible to them under the normal rules.  This provisio also covers employees selected through the process of ODCE.

(Authority:- Railway Board’s letter No.E(MPP)2001/1/10 dated 3.5.01)

(3)  A Probationary Officer/temporary officer during the period of his training should be treated as under: –

(i)   No travelling allowance should be allowed for onward journeys in cases where the probationers/temporary officers join the training institutions direct on first appointment to railway service.

(ii) Travelling allowance as on tour may be allowed to the probationers/temporary officers who are already in railway/Government service or who first join the railways of their posting and then proceed to the training institute or where they move from one training institute to another.

(iii)  Probationers/temporary officers shall not be paid any daily allowance or allowed free board and lodging in lieu thereof, where messing is compulsory, for the period of their stay in the training institutes; and

(iv)  For tours to outstations undertaken from the training institutions as part of the training, travelling allowance as admissible as on tour shall be allowed.

(v)  Rent should be recovered from the probationers/temporary officers for the accommodation provided to them during their period of stay in the hostel.

(vi)  The term ‘probationers’ applies to officers in respect of whom training required to be given during the probation period is given either during probation or afterwards.

(vii)  A person not already in railway service who is selected to undergo a course of training with a view to appointment in railway service may be allowed travelling allowance as in sub-rule (1) and (2) at a scale not exceeding that admissible to railway servants of similar status on duty at the place of training.

1686. (1) Special Class Apprentices ― When they are moved from one headquarters to another in connection with their training, will be granted travelling allowance as on tour for the period covered by the journey.  In cases, however, when they are required to proceed from one station to another for training for the period not exceeding six weeks, they will be treated as on tour.

(2) The apprentices (whether mechanical or other categories) who are in receipt of the concession of free boarding and lodging at their headquarters and are in receipt of reduced rates of stipend only be allowed travelling allowance applicable to the category to which they are apprentices provided they are required to undertake such journeys as a part of their training and no free boarding is arranged for them.

1687.  A military officer in railway employment, while detailed to a military course of instruction, is entitled to draw mileage and daily allowances at rates admissible to a military officer in military employ in similar circumstances.  No free railway pass shall be issued for such journeys.

Section XXII – Journey to attend levees

1688. (1) A railway servant who is permitted to attend a levee elsewhere than at his headquarters may draw traveling allowance for the journey as for a journey on tour.

Railway Ministry’s decision–(1) This rule applies only to railway servants on duty.

(2)  The Railway servants who come to Delhi, to receive the gallantary medals from the President at formal investitures will be allowed traveling allowance as on tour.

(3)   When officers are invited to attend social functions by the President  and others, the journeys undertaken in attending such functions should not be regarded as public duty and no traveling allowance paid for such journeys.

Section XXIII – Journeys to attend conferences. Congresses or Meetings

1689.  Railway servants attending meetings or conferences or congresses held in India may draw traveling allowance as on tour when they are officially deputed to attend them but not when they attend at their own request.  In the latter case, provided any Government interest is served thereby, they may only be granted special passes for the journeys to an from the place of meeting. 

Ministry of Railways Decisions

(1) Attendance of Government servants at the meetings listed below has been recognized as being in the interest of the Government–

Annual General Meetings of the Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta and its Regional Centers, and of the Institute of Railway Accountants and Auditors (Calcutta).

Meetings of the local Associations of the Institution of Engineers.

The Annual General branch meetings of the Indian, Western and Eastern Centres of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Railway Division) and of the Indian Medical Association or the Association of the Surgeons of India or the Association of Physicians of India or  the meetings and conferences arranged by the Institute of Costs and Works Accountants.

The annual conferences of  the Indian Statistical Institute.

The  annual Session of the Indian Science Congress.

Regional Centres of the Permanent Way Institutes.

Meetings of the Sectional Committee set up by the Indian Standards Institution.

Meetings of the Advisory Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Meetings of the Institution  of Tele-Communication Engineers.

Meetings of the Institute of Permanent Way Engineers.

The All India Malaria Conferences, The Annual Conferences of the All India Tuberculosis Association, the Annual Conferences of Indian Public Health Association, The Annual Conference of Association of Family Planning, The Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Occupational Health, Two meetings of the Bombay Railway Signal and Tele Communications Society in a Calendar Year.  Annual Convention of the Institute of Indian Foundrymen, Calcutta.  Annual meeting of the Institute of  Rail Transport.

Any one meeting of the Institute of Rail Transport in a year when attended by the Members of the Institute.

Annual General Meeting of Institution of Chemists (India).

Joint Chemical Convention (Annual) of  the Chemical Research Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Ministry of Education, Government of India), the Institution of Chemists (India), the Indian Chemical Society and the Society of Biological Chemists (India).

Cases not covered by the above should be referred to the Railway Board for orders.

The time spent by the railway servants in attending such meetings, when they are permitted to attend the meetings at their own request, will be treated as special casual leave. 

Railway Ministry’s Decision

(2) Railway Doctors who are either Members of the following Associations or who read papers may be permitted to attend such meetings at their own request, the period of absence being treated as special casual leave.  Special Railway passes may also be given for the journey to and from the place of meetings but no road mileage or daily allowance for halts at the Place of meeting would be allowed.

The Annual Conference of Association of Radiologists, Annual Conference of Association of Ophthalmologists, Annual Conference of Association of Oto-Rhine-Laryngalogists, Annual Conference of India Society of Anesthetists, Annual Conference of Association of Gynecologists and Obstricians, Annual Conference of Association of Nurses, Meetings of the Dental Council of India, Annual Conference of All India Dental Association.

Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics.

Annual  Confernce of Cardilogical Society of India.

Annual Conference of  Association of Neurologists of India.

Indian Association of  Pathologists.

The Annual Conference of the Indian Association for chest disease.

The Indian Society of Gastroenterology.

National Congress on  Occupational Health.

Dermatological Society of India.

Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatrists Society.

Annual Convention of the Indian Hospital Association.

Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.

Thoracic Surgical Conference.

Annual General Meetings of Railway.

Signalling and Tele-Communication Engineers.

Annual Seminars of the Institute of Town Planners, India.

Indian Orthopaedic Association.

Section XXIV – Journeys to attend meetings of Railway institutes etc.

1690. Railway servants nominated by a Railway Administration or elected to serve on Debt and Welfare Committees including Staff Benefit Fund Committees, Staff Representatives of a recognized union to Joint Purchase Boards and railway servants nominated ex-officio, and not ordinary members to serve on Committees of Railway Institutes and Staff Loan Funds,  etc. may draw when attending meetings of such committees, traveling allowance as on tour.  The concession of traveling allowance as on tour will also be admissible to the representatives, who are railway servant of the recognized unions to the Labour Advisory Committee in connection with their attendance at the meetings of the Staff Benefit Fund Committees. 

Ministry of Railways’ Decision

(1) The railway servants taking part in recognized athletic contests and tournaments should be allowed special casual leave and free passes.

(2)               The running staff granted special casual leave in connection with recognized athletic contests and tournaments should be deemed to have been engaged on other than running duties and as such should be allowed “an allowance in lieu of Kilometreage” for the period of special casual leave granted to them under the rules for payment of running and other allowances to running staff. 

1635.  Journeys by rail combined with journeys by road/sea/river steamer.–If a railway servant combines with a rail journey, a journey by road/steamer, he may draw the actual fare (without diet charges) in addition for the entire period of absence daily allowance would be admissible. 

1636.  Journeys by air. —(1) A railway servant entitled/authorized to travel by air on tour will draw the actual fare for journeys by air and in addition, draw daily allowance for the entire absence from the Headquarters starting with departure from Headquarters and ending with arrival at Headquarters, to cover both on-the-way expenses as well as expenses for halts at outstation. 

(2) Members of the Railway Board, General Managers and Officers of equivalent rank, may travel by air on tour at their own discretion.  Officers of the rank of Executive Directors or Secretary may be permitted to travel by air with the specific sanction of the Member concerned in the Railway Board, and Heads of Departments on the Railways with the specific sanction of their General Managers,  in consultation with their FA&CAOs. 

(3) Every journey by air must, before it is undertaken, receive the sanction of the Railway Board or the General Manager of a Railway or the officer exercising the powers of a General Manager, as the case may be. 

(4) Journeys by air should be permitted only in cases of extreme urgency or where saving the public time is essential.  Each case of journey proposed to be performed by air, should be considered on its merits before it is sanctioned. 

(5) When Members of the Railway Board and the General Managers of the Railways permit officers under their direct control to travel by air, they should invariably record the reasons why they considered travel by air to be essential. 

(6) Officers below the rank of Executive Directors or Secretary in the Railway Board’s office will not be permitted to travel by air save in exceptional circumstances and with the prior sanction of the Railway Board. On Railways, General Managers may permit Junior Administrative Grade Officers to travel by air on duty in exceptional circumstances subject to the following conditions:

1.                                 These   powers   may   be   exercised   only   by   General Managers   and   not   by   CAOs,   and   are   not   to   be
redelegated further. However, CAO, COFMOW/New Delhi, DCW/Patiala and MTP/Chennai may also exercise these
powers with the personal concurrence of FA&CAO.

 2.                             These powers are to be exercised personally by the General   Managers with   the   personal   concurrence   of FA&CAO.

 3.                           Air travel  will  be permitted  only  In  cases where theduration of the journey one-way is more than 12 hours by rail

4.            Each proposal regarding Air travel would require to be justified on merits.

Note:  In exceptional circumstances, General Managers are required to obtain prior sanction of the Railway Board to permit a Railway servant below the rank of Junior Administrative Grade to travel by air on duty.”
 

(Authority: Board’s letter No. F(E)I/2007/AL-28/22 dt.07.08.07)

(7) Railway Officers in pay scale of Rs.22, 400–24,500 or above may also travel at their discretion in the executive class by air within the country on tour.  Other officers and non-officials who are authorized to travel by air within India at Government expenses shall be entitled to travel by standard class only where two classes of accommodation i.e. Standard Class and Executive Class are available on the air-lines. 

(8) In the case of International travel, officers of and above the level of Secretaries to the Government of India and equivalent status shall be entitled to travel by first class, officers of the level of Additional Secretaries and Joint Secretaries and of equivalent status by Business/Club Class, and all other officers by Economy Class. 

(Authority:- Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/98/AL-28/9 dated 24.4.98)

1637.  If a part of the journey is performed by air and part of it is performed by locomotion.–A railway servant may draw in addition to the concession admissible under Rule 1636, traveling allowance admissible under the rules for the part of the journey performed by either means of locomotion.  No traveling allowance may, however, be drawn in respect of surface transport which forms part of the air travel and is included in the fare paid for the air journey. 

1638.   A railway servant, who is not authorised to travel by air but who performs a journey by air, will draw only the traveling allowance  which he would have been entitled to if he had traveled by rail/road/steamer. 

NOTE.–If available, return tickets at reduced rates should always be purchased when the railway servant expects to perform the return journey by air within the period during which air return ticket is available. 

1639. When return tickets are purchased, the actual cost of return ticket plus daily allowance is admissible. 

1640. Toll Tax. –A railway servant who is required to proceed on duty to Nainital, Mussorie or Almorah is entitled to the Toll Tax charged by the Municipalities of those stations in addition to the traveling allowance ordinarily admissible to him under the rules subject to the condition that the State Government concerned reimburse the toll tax to its employees on tour/transfer. 

Section VIII – Journeys at or near headquarters

1641. (1) when a Railway servant, gazetted or non-gazetted, drawing a pay of not less than  Rs.3200/- per month, under Railway Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 1986, undertakes a journey on duty at or within a radius of 8 kilometres from his headquarters, he may be permitted to claim reimbursement of taxi hire/conveyance charges as follows:- 

(i)   If a taxi is engaged/own car is used, the rate prescribed by the Director of Transport for taxi; 

(ii)  If an auto-rickshaw is engaged/one’s own motor cycle or own scooter is used the rates prescribed by the Director of Transport for auto-rickshaw.

           (2)  Railway servants, gazetted or non-gazetted, drawing a pay of less than Rs.3200/- per month shall not be entitled to engage a taxi.  They may be permitted to claim conveyance hire as follows:- 

When an auto-rickshaw is engaged or own motor car/motor cycle/scooter is used, the rate prescribed by the Director of Transport for auto-rickshaw. 

(3)  The conveyance charges admissible for journeys performed by sharing the hire charge or by taking a single seat in a taxi/auto-rickshaw, will be the actual of hire charges limited to the amount calculated at half of the rates prescribed by the Director of Transport for taxi/auto-rickshaw. 

(4)  The total amount of taxi hire/(reimbursement of) conveyance charges drawn for journeys on a particular day, shall not exceed the rate of Daily Allowance applicable to the Railway servant for ordinary locality. 

(5)  The conveyance allowance/taxi hire shall not be granted in respect of journeys performed on a day on which a railway servant draws daily allowance unless the journeys are unconnected with journeys on tour. 

(6) Taxi hire shall not be allowed to a railway servant in receipt of permanent traveling allowance or conveyance allowance of any kind.

(7)   Deleted.(Authority:- Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/99/AL-7/1 dated 26.3.99)

(8)  Taxi hire shall not, in any circumstances, be allowed for journeys from residence to office or vice versa. 

(9)  A statement of taxi hire conveyance charges actually incurred shall be submitted by the Railway servant at the end of each month for sanction (and counter-signature) of the Head of his Department or office. 

(10) The Rules do not apply to Railway doctors who draw conveyance allowance under different orders issued by the Railway Board. 

Section IX – Transfer travelling allowance

1642. (1) Travelling allowance shall not be drawn under the following rules by railway servant on transfer from one station to another unless he is transferred in public interest and is entitled to pay during the period occupied by the journey.  A transfer at his own request shall not be treated as a transfer in public interest unless the authority sanctioning the transfer for special reasons, which should be recorded, otherwise directs. 

(2) When a railway servant is transferred otherwise than in public interest, a copy of the order of transfer shall be sent to the Accounts Officer who will be his disbursing Officer after such transfer with an endorsement stating the reasons for the transfer.  In the absence of such endorsement, the Accounts Officer shall assume that the transfer is in public interest. 

NOTE. -In the case of non-gazetted railway servant, a certificate from the Head of the office may be accepted in lieu of the orders prescribed in this sub-rule. 

(3) The railway servants in transit from one post to another, ranks in the grade or class in which his tenure of the lower of the two posts would place him. 

NOTE. –In partial relaxation of the above rule, when a subordinate railway servant travels to another station  to officiate in a post in the superior or lower gazetted service or on reversion after officiating in such a post, he may, at the discretion of the General Manager, be granted transfer passes (for himself as well as for his family, dependant relatives if traveling with him and kit) of the class admissible in the higher post. 

(4)  A railway servant shall not be entitled to any traveling allowance if no change of residence is involved on his transfer. 

Railway Board’s decision 

(1) Government servant appointed to posts under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways on the results of a competitive examination which is open to both Government servants and others may be granted joining time and joining time pay as under: 

(a)     Joining time should ordinarily be permitted for all Government servants serving under the Central Government and for State Government servants who hold permanent posts in a substantive capacity;

(b)     no joining time pay should be granted except- 

(i)         When the Government servant holds a permanent post under Government (including State Government) in a substantive capacity; or

(ii)        In the case of appointments through the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministerial Establishment of the Government of India Secretariat and attached or subordinate offices, when a candidate originally nominated to a vacancy likely to become permanent is nominated to another such vacancy owing to cessation of the former. 

(2) Travelling allowance as on transfer under Railway rules should also be granted in cases were joining time pay is granted under Clause (b) of Decision No. 1 above. 

(3) These orders shall apply also to a Government servant selected after an interview for an appointment to a post under Central Government. 

(4) Central (including Railways)/State Government employees declared quasi permanent/provisionally permanent shall also be eligible to the concessions mentioned in the above decision.  Government servants declared provisionally permanent/quasi permanent retrospectively but not w.e.f. a date prior to 7^th April, 1955 will also be  eligible to these concessions. 

1643.  The entitlements of a Railway servant for the journeys on transfer are as under: – 

(A) ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE JOURNEYS BY VARIOUS MODES OF TRANSPORT 

(1) Journeys by Air–A Railway Officer holding a post in pay scale of Rs.22, 400 –24,500 and above may travel by air, at his discretion, to join the new HQs., on transfer.  The airfare will, however, be admissible for self-only.  No family member of any Railway servant is entitled to travel by air on transfer. 

(2) Journeys by Rail–Free passes, as admissible under Schedule –I of Railway servants (Pass) Rules, 1986 may be issued to a railway servant and his family members. 

(3)  Journeys by Road–A Railway servant is not entitled to travel by road, between stations connected by rail.  However, between the stations not connected by rail a Railway servant and his family members may travel by road.  The entitlements for journeys by road will be same as admissible  for the journeys on tour as  indicated in sub-rule (5) of Rule 1607 under “Section –V – Mileage Allowance”, of this Code.  The actual admissible Road Mileage Allowance is indicated in Rule 1644. 

(B) TRANSPORTATION OF HOUSE-HOLD EFFECTS 

(1) Kit Passes– 

Railway servants may be issued Kit Passes for transportation of personal effects, between places connected by rail. 

(2) Charges for Transportation of personal effects, between residence and Railway Stations, at the old & new headquarters:- 

      For transportation of personal effects by road, from place of residence to the Railway Station at the Old headquarters and from Railway Station to the place of residence, at the new headquarters, the rates for transportation of personal effects will be as under: – 

NOTES.–1. The allowance, at higher rates, mentioned in Col. (2) will be admissible, only for carriage of personal effects from one place to another within the limits of A-1/A/B-1 Class Cities. 

2.  Such  of the employees as are in receipt of a revised pay of Rs.3350/- p.m. and above will, however  be entitled to the rates of allowance prescribed for employees in the next higher pay-range of Rs.4100/- and above but less than Rs.6500/-.  In their case also the higher rate mentioned in column (2) will be admissible only for carriage of personal effects from one place to another within the limits of A-1/A/B-1 class cities. 

(C) TRANSPORTATION OF CONVEYANCE OF TRANSFER– 

A Railway servant may on transfer be issued a Pass for transportation of conveyance in terms of Schedule-I of Railway servants (Pass) Rules 1996. 

(D)   COMPOSITE TRANSFER GRANT–

(I)   TERMS AND CONDITIONS—

A Railway servant will be entitled to a Composite Transfer Grant at the rates indicated in Part (II) below, subject to the following conditions:- 

(1)  Composite Transfer Grant will not be admissible if there is no change in the residence of the Railway servant, as a result of transfer. 

2)   Composite Transfer Grant will not be admissible in case of a temporary transfer not exceeding 180 days. 

3)   Composite Transfer Grant will not be admissible if the transfer has been ordered at the request of a Railway employee.  Nor will it be admissible in the case of a mutual transfer ordered at the request of the concerned employees. 

4)   In the absence of any positive mention in the orders of transfer that the transfer is at the request of the employee or that it is for a period less that 180 days, the transfer orders should be deemed to carry the sanction of the competent authority for payment of Composite Transfer Grant subject, however, to prescribed terms and conditions. 

5)   The Composite Transfer Grant, shall not be treated as income for the purpose of Computation of Income Tax being a part of Travelling Allowance admissible to a Railway servant, on transfer. 

6)   The facility of using Railway Labour for packing household kit on transfer, is not permissible. 

7)  The payment of Composite Transfer Grant need not be linked with the vacation of Railway Accommodation provided at the old headquarters.  The Grant will be payable if the Railway employee makes some temporary arrangement for residence at his new headquarters 

8)   In  case of retirement of a Railway servant, no claim for Composite Transfer Grant will be entertained until and unless the retired Railway employee vacates the railway accommodation allotted to him. 

9)  Composite transfer Grant will not be payable to the retired Railway servant if he prefers to stay in the railway accommodation regularized in the name of any of his family members, after his retirement. 

10) Composite Transfer Grant will, however, be payable if the retired Railway servant prefers to live away from his family members in whose name the Railway accommodation has been regularized.  In such cases, the retired Railway Servant is required to submit documentary proof of his having changed the residence. 

11) For claming Transfer Grant, a Railway servant is required to submit documentary proof of his having performed the journey, etc. 

(II) QUANTUM OF COMPOSITE TRANSFER GRANT 

(a)  If there is a change of residence as a result of transfer and the Railway servant has been transferred to an outstation (see Note 2 below) beyond a distance of 20 Kms. Payment of Composite Transfer Grant may be regulated as under:- 

NOTE:  1.If a Railway servant who has joined Railway service prior to 1.5.76, exercises an option to transport his luggage by goods train/container (i.e. by a carrier other than VPU) on transfer, on the same scale as admissible to a Railway servant who has joined Railway service on or after 1.5.76, he may be granted the balance 20% of Composite Transfer Grant on the same scale as admissible to post 1.5.76 appointees as indicated Col.a (i) above. 

NOTE: 2.The term ‘Same Station’ means area falling within the jurisdiction of the Municipality or Corporation including such of sub-urban Municipality notified area or cantonment as are contiguous to the same Municipality. For example, Railway servants transferred from Ghaziabad, Sonepat, Gurgaon, Faridabad etc. to Delhi and vice versa, shall be treated as transferred within the same station and they will be granted Composite Transfer Grant only at the rate of one-third of one month’s Basic Pay. 

(b)  For Short-distance transfers within the same station or to an outstation within 20 Kms. Of the Old HQ.   A Railway servant who has been transferred within the same station or to an outstation within 20 Kms.of the old headquarters, shall be granted Composite Transfer Grant at the rate of one-third of one month’s basic pay, provided there is a change of residence, as a result of  transfer, irrespective of his date of joining Railway service i.e. before, on or after 1.5.76. 

(III)     PROCEDURE FOR DRAWAL OF ADVANCE AND PAYMENT OF COMPOSITE TRANSFER GRANT 

(i)   A Railway servant, upon receiving the orders of transfer, may apply for an Advance of Transfer Allowance as admissible which may be granted to him.  No advance will however, be granted to any employee for settlement after retirement. 

(ii)  After carrying out the orders of transfers, a Railway servant will submit his first transfer T.A. bill, within a period of three months from the date on which the journey is performed. 

(iii) The second transfer T.A. Bill, if any, may be preferred within a period of three months after transportation of his personal effects finally. 

(iv)  Personal effects may be transported either one month before the date of transfer or within six months from the date of transfer. The period of one month/six months may be extended in individual cases attendant with special circumstances, with the approval of the Competent Authority. 

(v)   In the case of Railway employees settling after retirement, the claim for full settlement of Composite Transfer Grant will be entertained only when the retired Railway employee has actually performed the journey/transported his personal effects finally and has submitted the necessary documentary proof therefore. 

(vi)  A Railway servant who has joined Railway service prior to 1.5.76 may exercise an option to transport luggage by rail, on transfer/retirement, on the same scale, as admissible to a Railway employee who has joined Railway service on or after 1.5.76 as laid down in Schedule-I (Pass on transfer) of Railway servants  (Pass) Rules 1986. The option may be exercised along with the application for Kit Passes for transportation of personal effects. 

(IV)     QUANTUM OF ADVANCE

The quantum of advance admissible on transfer to a serving Railway employee is as follows:- 

  NOTE:  (1)  In addition to the Advance of TA on transfer as above, a Railway servant may also be granted an advance of pay equivalent  to one month’s salary, if he applies for it.  This pay Advance is recoverable in three installments commencing from  the month in which salary for a full month is drawn by the Railway servant. 

(2)        The drawl of Advance of TA on  transfer as also Pay Advance should be   recorded in the Last Pay Certificate of the transferred employee. 

(3)        The Advance of TA may be adjusted against first TA Bill on transfer submitted by the Railway servant. 

(4)        Advance of pay or TA on transfer will not be admissible to any Railway employee for settlement after retirement. 

(V)       Quantum of Composite Transfer Grant to the retired railway employees for settling at their home-town/any other declared or intended place 

The quantum of Composite Transfer Grant admissible to a retired railway employee or to his/her family members, in the event of death of a railway servant, will be as admissible  on transfer, in terms of part (II) above. 

Railway Ministry’s Decisions 

Transfer Traveling Allowance in cases where both husband and wife are in Government service, and are transferred at the same time or within six months of his/her transfer from one and the same old station to one and the same new station, will not be admissible to both of them as independent Railway servants.  Either of them may claim  transfer traveling allowance and the other being treated as member of his/her family not in Government service on furnishing the following certificate:- 

“Certified that my wife/husband is employed under Central Government (including Railway) and who has been transferred from……………. to …………….within six months of my transfer has not already claimed any traveling allowance in consequence of her/his transfer.” 

Transfer Allowance on transfer for journeys between places connected by road only. 

(Authority:- Railway Board’s letter No. F(E)I-99/AL/28/2 dt.12.6.99)

1644. (1) A Railway servant on transfer, for journeys between places not connected by rail, may draw for journeys by road, as from the old station to the new station, mileage allowance at the rate in Rule 1607. 

(2)   Additional mileage allowance at the rate applicable to the Railway servant may be drawn if two members of his/her family travel with him and at twice that rate if more than two members perform the journey. 

NOTE. –A Railway servant who claims additional mileage allowance under this sub-rule on the grounds that members of his family performed the journey on transfer, must support his claim by a certificate showing the number and relationship of the said members. 

(3)  Railway servants are entitled to Transfer Grant and Packing Allowance on the same scale as admissible to them for journeys by rail. 

(4)  The Railway servants may draw Daily Allowance for himself and his family members on the same basis as admissible on tour.

(5)   Railway servants (whether they joined Railway service before 1-5-76 or, on or after 1-5-76) are eligible for transportation of personal effects by road  between stations not connected by rail at the following scale:– 

1645. Travelling Allowance for short-distance transfers.–I.  For transfer within the same station:- 

(a)  No traveling allowance is admissible if no change of residence is involved. 

(b)  If there is a change of residence, traveling allowance will be allowed as follows:- 

Self and family: Actual cost of conveyance not exceeding the road mileage   admissible under the rules. 

(c) Personal effects-Actual cost of transportation not exceeding the amount admissible under the rules. 

NOTE: (i) No transfer grant or any other traveling allowance concession is admissible. 

(ii) The term ‘same station’ means the area falling within the jurisdiction of the Municipality or Corporation including such of sub-urban Municipality/notified area or Cantonment as are contiguous to the named municipality etc. 

II. For transfer between two stations. –(a) No traveling allowance is admissible if no change of residence is involved. 

(b) If there is a change of residence as a result of transfer, full transfer traveling allowance will be admissible except that no transfer grant and Packing Allowance will be admissible if the distance between the two stations does not exceed 20 Kms. 

NOTE. -The distance between stations will be taken from office to office. If there are alternate rail and road routes, the distance by each, should exceed 20 Kms. for eligibility to the transfer grant. 

1646. (1) If a member of a Railway servant’s family follows him within six months or precedes him by not more than one month, free passes under Rule 1643 and/or traveling allowance under Rule 1643 may be granted in respect of such member. 

NOTE.–These time limits may be extended by the Railway Board in individual cases attendant with special circumstances. The powers in respect of extending the time limit of six months stipulated herein may also be exercised by: 

(a)   General Manager or an Officer exercising the powers of General Managers. 

(b)   Any officer to whom these powers are redelegated with the specific approval of the Railway Board; and 

(c)  An Officer enjoying the powers of the Head of Department but is not under the control of either General Manager or an Officer enjoying the powers of a General Manager. 

(2) If a member of a railway servant’s family travels to the new station from a place other than the railway servant’s old station within the time specified in sub-rule (1), free passes for the rail journey and actual fare for the journey made or the fare admissible from the old to the new station, whichever is less, for the journey by steamer, may be granted in respect of such member. 

(3) If the family of a railway servant, in consequence of his transfer, travels to a station other than his new headquarters within the time specified in respect of sub-rule (1), a free pass for the rail journey and traveling allowance for other journeys, not exceeding the traveling allowance admissible between the old station and the new station, may be granted in respect of such family. 

NOTE. –(1) The grade of a railway servant, for the purpose of the above rule, may be determined with reference to the facts on the date of transfer, while the number of passes or number of persons to be included in a free pass with reference to the facts on the date of the journey. 

(2) The period of the one month or six months should be reckoned under sub-rule (3) from the date of the railway servant handing over charge at his old station and under sub-rule(1) & (2) from the date of his taking over charge at the new station. 

1647.  Daily Allowance on Temporary Transfer. –Daily allowance is admissible during temporary transfer as follows:- 

(i)     First 180 days—Full Daily Allowance. 

(ii)    Beyond 180 days—Nil. 

1648.  A railway servant who goes on leave not exceeding four months, after he has given over charge of his old post and before he has taken over charge of his new post, shall be entitled, whether the order for transfer is received before or after the commencement of his leave, to the concession admissible under this section, as for a journey from his old to his new post. 

1649. (1) A railway servant who takes leave exceeding four months, while in transit from one post to another, may draw traveling allowance under this Section for so much of the journey as he has accomplished before the order granting his leave is received, in addition to the concession admissible under sub-rule (2) below. 

(2) When on return from leave exceeding four months, a railway servant is stationed at a headquarter other than that at which he was stationed when he went on leave, he may be allowed the concession admissible under this section as for a journey from his old to his new station. 

1650.  A railway servant appointed to a new post while in transit from one post to another, is entitled to draw traveling allowance for so much of the journey on transfer as he has accomplished when he receives the first order, and for the journey from the place at which he receives such orders to his new station.