IREC Rule No.1683: Traveling Allowance To Medical Officer For Obtaining Medical Advice

1683. Traveling Allowance To Medical Officer For Obtaining Medical Advice:-

(1)   A Medical Officer who considers that a railway servant on whom it is his duty to attend professionally should leave his station to obtain medical advice or treatment or to proceed on leave, and that it is unsafe for him to travel unattended, may, if he does not himself accompany him, arrange for an attendant to do so; and the attendant (a) if a railway servant, shall be deemed to have been traveling on duty and may draw traveling allowance for the outward and return journey on tour, and (b) if not a railway servant, may draw actual expenses.

(2)   When the Medical Officer’s opinion as to the necessity for the journey and for attendant during it can be obtained before its commencement, a certificate from him that the journey with an attendant was necessary, is sufficient for the purpose of this rule.

(3)  This rule also applies to attendant on members of railway servant’s family when entitled to traveling allowance under rule1676.

Note: Grant of traveling allowance for the attendant shall be regularized on the lines of the provision contained in rule 1676 (i), (ii) and (iii).