IREC Rule No.1700: Signing Traveling Allowance Bill

1700. Signing Traveling Allowance Bill:-

It is the duty of a Controlling Officer, before signing or countersigning a traveling allowance bill;

(1)   To scrutinize the necessity, frequency and duration of journeys and halts for which traveling allowance is claimed, to disallow the whole or any part of the traveling allowance claimed for any journey or halt if he considers that a journey was unnecessary or unduly protracted or that a halt was of excessive duration;

(2)   To scrutinize carefully the distances entered in traveling allowance bills;

(3)   To satisfy himself that, mileage allowance for journeys by steamer has been claimed at the rate applicable to the class of accommodation actually used and that where the actual cost of transporting servants, personal effects, etc. is claimed under the rules in this chapter, the scale on which such servants, effects, etc., were transported was reasonable and to disallow any claim which, in his opinion, does not fulfill that condition;

(4)  To check any tendency to abuse the concession of taxi hire sanctioned under rule 1607 and to consider the advisability of its replacement in any particular case by a fixed motor car or motor cycle allowance if in his opinion the monthly bill of the officer on account of taxi hire is excessive; and

(5)   To observe any subsidiary rules or orders which the Head of the Department may make for his guidance.