IREC Rule No.1685: Traveling Allowance During Training
1685. Traveling Allowance During Training:-
When a Railway servant is selected to undergo a course of training, he may draw traveling allowance as on tour;
(a) For the original journey to and last journey from the place of training.
(b) If the training (journey) is at a school or college or similar institution, for similar journeys on the occasion of holidays and vacations; and
(c) For journeys during the course of training.
For halts at the place of training, daily allowance will be admissible at full rate for the first 180 days. Beyond 180 days, no daily allowance is admissible. These provisions do not apply to probationers, temporary officers or persons in receipt of a stipend or to such Railway servants undergoing training in Railway Training Schools as are granted free messing or messing allowance in lieu of daily allowance under special orders or to such other Railway servant in respect of whom general or special orders may be issued by the President.
The limit of 180 days indicated above should be applied with reference to the halt of the journey at a particular place. However, if the trainees have to stay at a particular place of training, for different spells of the same training programmes, all the different spells of stay should be kept together for determining entitlement to daily allowance for the purpose of this rule.
Note:
(i) The Railway officers and staff deputed to attend training courses in the non-railway institutions where the Registration / Course fee includes the cost of board and lodging or the cost of board and lodging has to be borne by the Railway Administration, will be granted 20% of the Daily Allowance to which they would otherwise be entitled under the normal rules.
(ii) No Daily Allowance or any part thereof will be admissible to those trainees whose normal headquarters are at the place of training itself.
(iii) The Apprentices selected from amongst the serving railway employees as Probationary ASMs, Guards etc Shall be eligible for free messing plus 20% Daily allowance, otherwise admissible to them under the normal rules. This provisio also covers employees selected through the process of GDCE.
[Authority: RBE No.87/2001, No.E(MPP)2001/1/10, 03.05.2001]
(3) A Probationary Officer / temporary officer during the period of his training should be treated as under;
(i) No traveling allowance should be allowed for onward journeys in cases where the probationers / temporary officers join the training institutions direct on first appointment to railway service.
(ii) Traveling allowance as on tour may be allowed to the probationers / temporary officers who are already in railway / Government service or who first join the railways of their posting and then proceed to the training institute or where they move from one training institute to another.
(iii) Probationers/temporary officers shall not be paid any daily allowance or allowed free board and lodging in lieu thereof, where messing is compulsory, for the period of their stay in the training institutes; and
(iv) For tours to outstations undertaken from the training institutions as part of the training, traveling allowance as admissible as on tour shall be allowed.
(v) Rent should be recovered from the probationers / temporary officers for the accommodation provided to them during their period of stay in the hostel.
(vi) The term Probationers applies to officers in respect of whom training required to be given during the probation period is given either during probation or afterwards.
(vii) A person not already in railway service who is selected to undergo a course of training with a view to appointment in railway service may be allowed traveling allowance as in sub-rule (1) and (2) at a scale not exceeding that admissible to railway servants of similar status on duty at the place of training.