LTC RULES AND INFORMATION

"LTC RULES AND INFORMATION"

Leave Travel Concession Rules
as per 6th CPC - (w.e.f.
01.09.2008)
1. LTC Rules is allowed all
Government servants irrespective of
the distance between headquarters
and their home town .
2. LTC Rules is allowed Hometown"
means the town, village or any
other place declared as such by the
servant and accepted by the
controlling officer.
3. LTC Rules is allowed only to
those who have completed one year
of service on the date of journey.
4. LTC Rules is allowed for self and
family.
5. LTC Rules is allowed only to the
family (in the case of an employee
under suspension).
6. LTC Rules is allowed to journey
to “Home Town” once in a block of
two years.
7. LTC Rules is allowed journey to
“Any place in India” once in a block
of four years.
8. LTC Rules is allowed to
expression "any place in India" will
cover any place within the territory
of India whether it is on the
mainland, or overseas.
9. LTC Rules is allowed journey to
“Any place in India” in lieu of one
journey to Home Town.
10. LTC Rules is allowed availing
during all leave periods
(Earn/Casual/S.Casual/Study/
Maternity/Paternity).
11. LTC Rules is allowed all
journeys to travel by Rail/Road/Air/
Ship.
12. LTC Rules is allowed privilege
not availed during a block may be
availed before end of the next year.
13. LTC Rules is allowed allow
family members independently in
any number of batches.
14. LTC Rules is allowed traveling
to “Any place in India” the
employee and or members of the
family may travel either to the same
place or different places of their
choice.
15. LTC Rules is allowed traveling
to visit “Any place in India” or can
visit his same Home Town also.
16. LTC Rules is allowed in the
same two-year block, some
members of family can avail Home
Town concession while other “Any
place in India”.
17. LTC Rules is allowed
reimbursement by the entitled class
or actually traveled class, whichever
is less.
18. LTC Rules is allowed 90 per
cent of the anticipated
reimbursement amount may be
granted as advance.
19. LTC Rules is allowed Gra
de Pay
holders of Rs.2400,2600 and 2800
can go AC-II Tier class by train.
20. LTC Rules is allowed Grade Pay
holders of below Rs.2400 can go
AC-III Tier / First Class / AC-Chair
Car class by train.
Earned Leave Encashment Facility :-
1. Earned Leave up to a maximum
of ten days at a time may be
enchased, subject to the condition
that at least an equivalent duration
of Earned Leave.
2. This is limited to a maximum of
60 days during the entire career
and the total number of days so
enchased will not be included for
computing maximum quantum of
leave encashable at the time of
quitting service.
3. The balance at credit should be
but less than 30 days after
deducting the total of leave availed
plus leave for which encashment
was availed.
4. Where both husband and wife
are government servants,
encashment of leave will continue
to be available to both, subject to
maximum limit of 60 days.
Block Year :-
1. The LTC to home town is allowed
once in a block of two calendar
years, such as 2006-2007,
2008-2009 and so on.
2. The LTC to “Any Place in India”
is allowed once in a block of four
calendar years, such as 2006 -
2009 and so on.
Husband and Wife…
When both the husband and wife
are Central Government servants:
1. They can declare separate Home
Town independently.
2. They can claim LTC for their
respective families, viz,. While the
husband can claim for his parents /
minor brothers / sisters, the wife
can avail for her parents / minor
brother / sisters.
3. Either of the parents can claim
the concession for the children in a
particular block;
4. The husband / wife who avails
LTC as a member of the family of
the spouse, cannot claim
independently for SELF.
Family – definition …
1. The Government servant’s wife or
husband and two surviving
unmarried children or stepchildren
wholly dependent on the
Government servant, irrespective of
whether they are residing with the
Government servant or not.
2. Married daughters divorced,
abandoned or separated from their
husbands and widowed daughters
and are residing with the
Government s
ervant and wholly
dependent on the Government
servant.
3. Parents and / or step-parents
(stepfather and stepmother) whole
dependent on the Government
servant, whether residing with the
Government servant or not:
4. Unmarried minor brothers as well
as unmarried divorced abandoned,
separated from their husbands or
widowed sisters residing with and
wholly dependent on the
Government servant provided their
parents are either not alive or are
themselves wholly dependent on
the Government servant.