IREC Rule No.1666: Traveling Allowance On Retirement, Dismissal Or Termination Of Appointment

1666. Traveling Allowance On Retirement, Dismissal Or Termination Of Appointment:-

(1)   No person shall, without the sanction of the Ministry of Railways be entitled to any traveling 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 event of death of Railway servant, besides free passes admissible under the Railway Servants (Pass) Rules, 1986, shall be entitled to traveling 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 traveling 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 traveling allowance after the expiry of the period of re-employment.

(4)   Traveling allowance under sub-rule (2) above is admissible to a Railway servant retiring voluntarily, or on invalid / compensation pension. The traveling 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 traveling 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 DA and Interim relief appropriate to that pay as admissible under orders in existence on 31.12.1985.

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

(iv)   The grant of Traveling 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.