Transport Allowance: RBE No.125/2004 – Physically Handicapped
No.PC-V/97/I/7/12, dated 10.06.2004
Sub: Grant of Transport Allowance to Railway employees – Clarifications regarding.
1. Attention is invited to para 2(vi) of Railways Board’s letter of even number dated 16.12.1997 (RBE No.179/1997) regarding grant of Transport Allowance to physically handicapped Railway employees.
2. The matter of applicability of this order to the handicapped Railway employees suffering from Spinal Deformity (generally known as hunch back disability) has been under consideration in this Ministry. In this connection it is mentioned that Conveyance Allowance was granted vide Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/89/AL-7/6, dated 10.12.1990 (RBE No.234/1990) to Railway employees suffering from Spinal deformity causing permanent partial disability of above 40% estimated as per the standards laid down in the Annexure to the letter ibid and certified by the Competent Authority as mentioned in Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/78/AL-7/5, dated 31.10.1980. It is now clarified that such employees are also covered for grant of Transport Allowance at double the rates w.e.f. 01.08.1997 as admissible under Railway Board’s letter of even number dated 16.12.1997 (RBE No.179/1997) subject to the terms and conditions laid down in the said letter.
3. In this regard it is also mentioned that Conveyance Allowance was granted to blind or orthopaedically handicapped Railway employees vide Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/78/AL-7/5, dated 23.10.1978. The criteria for grant of Conveyance Allowance to the handicapped Railway employees was modified vide Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/78/AL-7/5, dated 15.01.1980 in terms of which an orthopaedically handicapped Railway employee was granted Conveyance Allowance if he or she has a minimum of 40% permanent partial disability of either upper or lower limbs or 50% permanent partial disability of both upper and lower limbs together. The conditions as laid down in Railway Board’s letter No.F(E)I/78/AL-7/5, dated 15.01.1980 continue to apply to determine whether a Railway employee is handicapped and entitled to Transport Allowance at double the rate in terms of para 2(vi) of Railway Board’s letter of even number dated 16.12.1997 (RBE No.179/1997). This is however, subject to the other conditions prescribed in para 2(vi) of Railway Board’s letter ibid. The cases of physically handicapped Railway employees for grant of Transport Allowance may be regularized accordingly and Transport Allowance at double the rates should not be restricted to persons with disability of lower extremities only.
Download Railway Board Circular RBE No.125/2004
Forward reference ⇒ RBE No.10/2023,