IREC Rule No.1642: Transfer Traveling Allowance

1642. Transfer Traveling Allowance:-

(1)   Traveling 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, dependent 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 transfer 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) Transfer Traveling allowance 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 07.04.1955 will also be eligible to these concessions.