IREC Rule No.1624: Railway Servant Shall Be Deemed To Be On Tour

1624. Railway Servant Shall Be Deemed To Be On Tour:-

The railway servant shall be deemed to be on tour when absent on duty from his Headquarters either within, or with the sanction of the Controlling Officer, beyond his sphere of duty. For the purpose of this Section, journey to a hill station is not a journey on tour.

Government Of India’s Decision:

The following terms regarding traveling allowance, daily allowance and lodging may be granted to the railway servant who may be deputed to accompany the visiting foreign delegation / VIPs as Liasion Officer, etc;

(a)  For journeys by rail, the accompanying railway servant will, as far as possible, be issued a duty pass of the class to which he is normally entitled under the rules. He may also be allowed to travel by air-conditioned accommodation along with the members of the delegation, if considered absolutely necessary, with prior sanction of the Railway Ministry.

(b)  For journeys by road and by air, the accompanying railway servant may wherever necessary travel by road and / or by with members of the delegation / VIPs.

(c)    Allowances For Incidental Expenses On Journeys / Daily Allowance For Journey Time: No daily allowance for the days of travel would be admissible to the accompanying railway servant. His expenses on food in transit and other essential incidental expenses e.g. porter charges, will, however, be met from Government funds as for members of the delegation / VIPs.

(d)   Board And Lodging Arrangements At Outstations And Daily Allowance For Halts: The accompanying railway servant should, wherever possible, make his own arrangements for board and lodging at an outstation, in which case he may draw the daily allowance, admissible to him under the normal Rules. Where, however, it is considered absolutely necessary that he should stay in the same Hotel as the members  of the delegation / VIPs, accommodation appropriate to his status may be arranged for him in that Hotel. In such cases, the accompanying railway servant would be entitled to daily allowance at ¼th of the normally applicable rate if both board and lodging have been provided at Government expense in that Hotel, and at ½ of such rate, it only either board or lodging has been provided to him at Government expense.

(e)  Board And Lodging Arrangements, And Daily Allowance For Period Of Stay Of The Delegation / VIPs At The Headquarters Of The Railway Servant: Railway servants, attached to visiting foreign delegations / VIPs will not be permitted to partake of board and / or lodging arrangements made for the delegation at the headquarters of the railway servant nor will any daily allowance be admissible to them at that place.

The above terms ‘Railway Servant Shall Be Deemed To Be On Tour’ are applicable only to such of the accompanying railway servants in respect of whom Railway Board certify that for sufficient reasons it was necessary for them to accompany the delegation / VIPs.