IREC Rule No.1689: Traveling Allowance For Journeys To Attend Meetings
1689. Traveling Allowance For Journeys To Attend Meetings:-
Railway servants attending meetings or conferences or congresses held in India may draw traveling allowance as on tour when they are officially deputed to attend them but not when they attend at their own request. In the latter case, provided any Government interest is served thereby, they may only be granted special passes for the journeys to and from the place of meeting.
Ministry Of Railways Decisions:
(1) Attendance of Government servants at the meetings listed below has been recognized as being in the interest of the Government;
Annual General Meetings of the Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta and its Regional Centers, and of the Institute of Railway Accountants and Auditors (Calcutta).
Meetings of the local Associations of the Institution of Engineers.
The Annual General branch meetings of the Indian, Western and Eastern Centers of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Railway Division) and of the Indian Medical Association or the Association of the Surgeons of India or the Association of Physicians of India or the meetings and conferences arranged by the Institute of Costs and Works Accountants.
The annual conferences of the Indian Statistical Institute.
The annual Session of the Indian Science Congress.
Regional Centers of the Permanent Way Institutes.
Meetings of the Sectional Committee set up by the Indian Standards Institution.
Meetings of the Advisory Committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Meetings of the Institution of Tele-Communication Engineers.
Meetings of the Institute of Permanent Way Engineers.
The All India Malaria Conferences,
The Annual Conferences of the All India Tuberculosis Association,
The Annual Conferences of Indian Public Health Association,
The Annual Conference of Association of Family Planning,
The Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Occupational Health,
Two meetings of the Bombay Railway Signal and Tele Communications Society in a Calendar Year.
Annual Convention of the Institute of Indian Foundrymen, Calcutta.
Annual meeting of the Institute of Rail Transport.
Any one meeting of the Institute of Rail Transport in a year when attended by the Members of the Institute.
Annual General Meeting of Institution of Chemists (India).
Joint Chemical Convention (Annual) of the Chemical Research Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Ministry of Education, Government of India), the Institution of Chemists (India), the Indian Chemical Society and the Society of Biological Chemists (India).
Cases not covered by the above should be referred to the Railway Board for orders.
The time spent by the railway servants in attending such meetings, when they are permitted to attend the meetings at their own request, will be treated as special casual leave.
(2) Railway Doctors who are either Members of the following Associations or who read papers may be permitted to attend such meetings at their own request, the period of absence being treated as special casual leave. Special Railway passes may also be given for the journey to and from the place of meetings but no road mileage or daily allowance for halts at the Place of meeting would be allowed.
The Annual Conference of Association of Radiologists,
Annual Conference of Association of Ophthalmologists,
Annual Conference of Association of Oto-Rhine-Laryngalogists,
Annual Conference of India Society of Anesthetists,
Annual Conference of Association of Gynecologists and Obstricians,
Annual Conference of Association of Nurses, Meetings of the Dental Council of India, Annual Conference of All India Dental Association.
Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
Annual Confernce of Cardilogical Society of India.
Annual Conference of Association of Neurologists of India.
Indian Association of Pathologists.
The Annual Conference of the Indian Association for chest disease.
The Indian Society of Gastroenterology.
National Congress on Occupational Health.
Dermatological Society of India.
Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatrists Society.
Annual Convention of the Indian Hospital Association.
Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine.
Thoracic Surgical Conference.
Annual General Meetings of Railway Signalling and Tele-Communication Engineers.
Annual Seminars of the Institute of Town Planners, India.
Indian Orthopaedic Association.