IREC Rule No.1679: Traveling Allowance For Journey To Appear Before Medical Board
1679. Traveling Allowance For Journey To Appear Before Medical Board:-
(1) A railway servant who is directed by his official superior, in the interests of the public service, to apply for an invalid pension, may, if he be required to make journey in order to appear before a Medical Board, draw his actual traveling expenses subject to a maximum of the amount of traveling allowance calculated for the journey. If it be necessary for him to return to his headquarters after appearing before the Medical Board, he may draw his actual expenses subject to the same maximum. For either journey, his traveling allowance bill must be supported by a certificate that he was directed to apply for an invalid pension in the interest of the public service and that he did not voluntarily ask to retire.
(2) A Head of a Department may allow actual expenses, as limited by sub-rule (1) of this rule, to be drawn by a railway servant who voluntarily applies for an invalid pension provided that he is satisfied that the circumstances for applicant are such as to justify the concession.
Auditor-General’s Decision:
Journeys after having been invalided: A non-gazetted Government servant after having been invalided by a Civil Surgeon with effect from the 30.01.1935, had to undertake subsequent to that date, for obtaining the attestation of the Medical certificate under Rule 2514-RII (1975 edition) several journeys to appear before the Medial Board which ultimately confirmed the Civil Surgeon’s certificate retrospectively with effect from the 30.01.1935. The Government servant put in a claim for the reimbursement of traveling allowance in respect of these journeys and a doubt was felt whether the case could be covered by the ordinary rules for traveling allowance. It has been decided that Rule 1679 does not become inoperative if, in a case like this, retirement takes retrospective effect from a date prior to the date on which the journey to appear before the Medical Board is performed.