IREC Rule No.1675: Traveling Allowance For Journeys To Visit Medical Specialist On Advice

1675. Traveling Allowance For Journeys To Visit Medical Specialist On Advice:-

(1)   A railway servant who is sent by the authorized medical attendant to a specialist in the service of Government or other Medical Officer at the nearest station under note 3 to Rule 603(3) RI shall draw a traveling allowance as for a journey on tour, but no daily allowance shall be drawn for halts on the journey.  If a member of a railway servant’s family is similarly sent, free passes of the class admissible to the railway servant himself under the Railway servant (Pass) Rules, 1986 may be issued for the outward and return journeys.

Note: Traveling allowance is payable to the railway servant even if the journey performed is treated as leave provided that other conditions governing the grant of traveling allowance in such cases are satisfied.

(2)      In the alternative, if a specialist or other Medical Officer is summoned to attend upon the railway servant (patient), he shall, on production of a certificate in writing from the authorized medical attendant in this behalf, be entitled to traveling allowance under the rules applicable to him.