Air Travel on LTC once in Ten Years to visit foreign countries – WB State Govt Orders issued on 9.10.2015
The state government of West Bengal issued orders on availing of
Leave Travel Concession (LTC) to foriegn countires, such as,
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives…
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
AUDIT BRANCH
No.7370-F(F)
Dated: 09.10.2015
MEMORANDUM
At present the State Government employees may avail themselves of the
benefit of Leave Travel Concession once in service career during the
period of five years preceding the actual date of retirement on
superannuation for the following kinds of journeys, subject to the
conditions as in this department’s Memo Nos. 9924-F dt. 07.12.2005 and
607 -F dt. 20.01.2006.
1. For journeys to respective home town and back, provided the home town is different from the place of posting; and
2. For journeys to any place of India and back.
The employees who have been duly permitted to retire voluntarily are
also allowed to avail of the above benefit before their such retirement.
The present provisions of admissibility of Leave Travel Concession have been under consideration for review for sometime past.
Now, after careful consideration of the matter, the Governor has been
pleased to decide in partial modification of this department Memo. No.
9924-F dt. 07. 2.2005 read with Memo. No. 607-F dt. 20.01.2006 to allow
the following benefits to the State Government employees instead of
journeys on LTC as mentioned at (2) above.
(a) One Home Travel Concession once in every five years to visit any place within the State;
(b)
One LTC once in ten years to visit any place in the neighboring countries, namely, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives or within
the Country.
Conditions for admissibility of the same in case the spouse of the Government employee is also employed will be as follows:-
(i) If the spouse of the Government employee is also a State
Government employee, the benefit can be availed of either by husband or
wife as a one family unit and in that case undertaking shall be
submitted by the other that no such claim will be preferred from his/her
office and this should be recorded in his/her Service Book.
(ii) If the spouse of the State Government employee is employed in
Central/Central PSUs/Corporation/Autonomous Body, the benefit can be
availed of either by the husband or wife employed under the State
Government as one family unit from the State Government provided no
benefit of LTC can be availed of by the other from the Central/Central
PSUs/Corporation/ Autonomous Body and in that case letter from
the employer there in this respect that he/she has given such
undertaking there shall be produced before avaiiing of the above
benefit.
(iii) If the spouse of the State Government employee is employed in
the State PSUs/Corporation/Non-Government aided Institutions/Autonomous
Body where facility of LTC does not exist, the spouse of the Government
employee may avail of this benefit along with the Government employee a a
member of the family on the condition that declaration to his/her
controlling authority shall be furnished that in future he/she will not
enjoy the benefit of LTC, if the same is extended in
the organization/institution as above in future.
Other conditions regarding admissibility of the benefit will be as in
Finance Department Nos.9924-F dt. 07.12.2005 and 607-F dt. 20.01.2006.
For the purpose of availing of LTC in foreign countries as mentioned at
SI. No. (b) above, the same can be availed of by air in economy class
from the nearest international airport of the country on the condition
that journeys will have to be performed either by national carrier or
private airlines of the country. The part of the journeys to and from
the airport will be as per provision in the existing orders.
For journeys in the foreign countries as mentioned above orders issued by the P&AR Department are also to be followed.
This will take effect from 01.11.2015.
Sd/-
H. K. Dwivedi
Principal Secretary to the
Government of West Bengal
Authority: www.wbfin.nic.in
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