IREC Rule No.1693: Traveling Allowance To Persons Not In Government Service

1693. Traveling Allowance To Persons Not In Government Service:-

(1)   Member of parliament when attending meetings of the Regional / Divisional User’s Consultative Committees (DRUCC) and of the Zonal Railway User’s Consultative Committees (ZRUCC) or sub-committees may be granted traveling allowance for journey from his usual place of residence to the place where the meeting is to be held and for the return journey as shown below;

(i)    If the journey is performed by rail, an amount equal to one first class fare plus one second class fare for each such journey irrespective of the class in which the Member actually travels;

(ii)    If the journey is performed by air, an amount equal to one and one-fourth of the air fare for each such journey;

(iii)   If the journey or any part thereof cannot be performed by rail or air-

(a)  Where the journey or any part thereof is performed by steamer, an amount equal to one and three-fifths of the fare (without diet) for the highest class in the steamer for each journey or part thereof.

(b)   Where the journey or any part thereof is performed by road, the road mileage as fixed by the concerned Director of Transport for taxi for each such journey or part thereof.

(2)   Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1) a Member who performs journey by road between places connected by rail or steamer either wholly or in part, may draw mileage allowance referred to in sub-clause (b) of Clause (iii) of sub-rule (1) in place of traveling allowance which would have been admissible to him, if he had traveled by rail or steamer as the case may be;

Provided that the total amount of traveling allowance drawn by such Member for the entire journey shall not exceed the amount which would have been admissible to him, had he performed such journey by rail or by steamer as the case may be.

(3)  Daily Allowance: A Member of Parliament is entitled for each day of the meeting to daily allowance as is admissible to him under Section 3 of the Salary, Allowance and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954, i.e. Rs.75 per day. He will also be entitled to daily allowance for two days preceding and two days following the meeting, if the Member of Parliament actually stays at the place of the meeting.

(B)   For Members of State Legislatures attending meeting of Railway User’s Consultative Committees /Council;

Traveling allowance and dearness allowance (including conveyance allowance) of Members of State Legislatures attending to serve the Railway User Consultative Committees at the Divisional or Zonal levels or their sub-committees, or meetings of the National Railway Users Consultative Council, or its sub-committees, will be regulated under the  Traveling Allowance Rules of the State Government concerned and they will be treated as their first grade officers for this purpose during non-session of the State Legislatures: and during the Session of State Legislatures, they will be governed, by the respective payment of Salaries and Allowance and Removal or Disqualification Acts. The Member concerned may be informed beforehand that they will not draw traveling allowance and daily allowance (including conveyance allowances) which may disqualify him. This provision may be embodied in the sanction itself.

(C)   Non-official members of the railway User’s Consultative Committees (other than Members of Parliament and Members of State Legislatures.)

(1)  Non-official members of the Divisional Railway User’s Consultative Committees (other than Members of Parliament and Members of State Legislatures), when attending meetings of the Committees or their committees, may be granted traveling allowance as shown below;

(i)   An allowance of Rs.20 (rupees twenty only) per day as out of pocket expenses for any day or days spent in traveling between the Railway Station nearest to their place of residence and the place of meeting and vice-versa.  This allowance is payable to non-official members (other than Members of Parliament and Members of State Legislatures) of Railway User’s Consultative Committees functioning at the divisional and zonal levels and the National Railway User’s Consultative Council. This out of pocket allowance will not be payable for day (or days) for which daily allowance (as indicated below) is payable.

(ii)    Daily allowance as out of pocket expenses per diem for the duration of the meetings will be payable as under;