RBE No. 135/2009: Conveyance Allowance – To Doctors

No.F(E)I/2009/AL-7/1, 24.07.2009

Sub: Recommendation of 6th Central Pay Commission – Grant of Conveyance Allowance at the revised rates to Railway Medical Officers.

1. Consequent to the recommendation of the 6th Central Pay Commission, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, have communicated revised rates of Conveyance Allowance admissible to the Central Health Services doctors working under the Central Health Services. Accordingly, the President is pleased to decide that the amount of Conveyance Allowance per month admissible to Railway medical officer for paying domiciliary visit outside duty hours and performing their official duties, will be revised as indicated below:

2. The Railway Medical Officer working in Hospitals will be paid Conveyance Allowance as per the above mentioned rates for visiting the Hospitals outside their duty hours and performing other official duties.
3. Similarly, Conveyance Allowance will be paid to Railway Medical Offices working in Railway Health Units/ Dispensaries for paying domiciliary visits and performing other official duties.
4. The amount of Conveyance Allowance will be revised every year equal to the change in percentage of Dearness Allowance payable for the year vis-à-vis the immediate preceding year.
5. For entitlement to the maximum amount of Conveyance Allowance mentioned above in para (1), every Specialist/ General Duty Medical Officer is required to pay on an average (to be computed for a three months period) a minimum of 20 visits in a month to the hospital or 20 domiciliary visits, outside his normal duty hours. Where, however, the number of domiciliary visits or visits to hospital falls short of this minimum limit of 20 but not below 6, there should be a proportionate reduction in the Conveyance Allowance, subject to minimum grant of Conveyance Allowance of Rs.160, Rs.80 and Rs.60 p.m. in case of a Specialist/ Medical Officers referred to sub-para 1(i), (ii) and (iii) above respectively. In case of number of domiciliary visits or visits to Hospitals falling below six in numbers, no Conveyance Allowance will be admissible.
Provided that expression “minimum of 20 domiciliary visits in a month” would include visits performed in connection with official duties also, subject, however, to the condition that 50% of the total visits, the minimum being not less than six, must be domiciliary visits.
Provided further that the limit fixed for the minimum number of 20 visits will not, however, detract a Specialist/ Medical Officer from his/ her responsibility towards the patients to render visit to the hospital or paying domiciliary visits if the situation so warrants.
6. Every Specialist/ Medical Officer claiming Conveyance Allowance will have to furnish the certificate along with monthly pay bill to the effect that he/ she is drawing Conveyance Allowance in fulfillment of condition No.5 above.
7. No Conveyance Allowance will be admissible during joining time, leave and any period of temporary transfer.
8. Medical Officer/ Specialist who draw Conveyance Allowance at the minimum rate specified in Para 1 Above and those who do not maintain a Motor Car or Motor Cycle/ Scooter and draw Conveyance Allowance @ Rs.900 p.m. or Rs.60 p.m. as the case may be, will be required to furnish a certificate along with the monthly pay bill, to the effect that the expenditure incurred by them by way of transport/ conveyance hire in connection with domiciliary visits/ official duty was not less than the amount claimed by them as conveyance allowance.
9. Specialist/ Medical Officer and receipt of Conveyance Allowance will not be entitled to draw any Daily Allowance or Mileage Allowance for Journeys on official duty, whether, within or beyond the radius of eight Kilometres within the city municipal limits.
10. In case the conveyance is not maintained or is not available for use, owing to its being out of order or is not used for official Journeys/ Hospital visit for any other reason, for a period of more than 15 days at a time, Conveyance Allowance will be admissible during such period at the rate prescribed in (1)(iii) above.
11. The Railway Medical Officers who draw Conveyance Allowance under these rules, will, in no case, be allowed to charge any sum towards the conveyance charge from the patients/ beneficiaries, irrespective of the distance involved in the visiting.
12. These orders will be applicable to all the Railway Medical Officers attached to Dispensaries/ sub-divisional/ Divisional and Central Hospitals and those working in Zonal Headquarters and Rly. Board including DG/RHS.
13. This order will take effect from 01.09.2008.
14. The expenditure involved will be met from the source from which the pay of the Specialist/ Medical Officers is drawn.
15. These orders are issued in supersession of all the earlier orders on the subject.

Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.135/2009

Forward reference⇒RBE No. 125/2018