Guidelines
1.
Please ensure that you have applied for leave and submitted the completely
filled self-certification form to your Administration before the LTC journey is
undertaken.
2.
Please check the eligibility before applying for LTC. LTC to Home Town can be
availed once in a block of two years and LTC to Any Place in India may be
availed once in a four year block. If not availed during these blocks, the LTC
may also be availed in the first year of the following block.
3.
Please note that the current two year block is 2016-17 and the current four
year block is 2014-17.
4.
In case of fresh recruits, LTC to Home Town is allowed on three occasions in a
block of four years and to any place in India on the fourth occasion. This
facility is available to the fresh recruits only for the first two blocks of
four years applicable after joining the Government service for the first time.
(For details, please refer to DoPT’s O.M. No. 31011/7/2013-Estt.(A-IV) dated
26.09.2014 available on `www.permin.nic.in’ << `OMs & Orders'<<
‘Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on LTC entitlements of a Fresh Recruit’)
5.
A Fresh recruit may at his option choose to avail LTC under the normal LTC
rules as entitled to other regular Government employees subject to the
condition that he/she will have to forego his/her eight years LTC entitlement.
It may be noted that the option once exercised shall be treated as final for
the initial eight occasions of LTC and the fresh recruit shall not be allowed
to change it in a later stage.
6.
The retiring Government employees are eligible to avail LTC as per their
entitlement provided that the return journey is performed before his date of
retirement. LTC is not allowed after retirement.
7.
Journeys on LTC are to be undertaken in the entitled class of the Government
servant in public/Government mode of transport.
8.
Travel by private modes of transport is not allowed on LTC, however, wherever a
public transport is not available, assistance shall be allowed for the private
transport subject to the certification from an Appropriate Authority that no
other public/Government mode of transport is available for that particular
stretch of journey and these modes operate on a regular basis from point to
point with the specific approval of the State Governments/Transport authorities
concerned and are authorised to ply as public carriers.
9.
If a Government servant travels upto the nearest airport/ railway station by
authorized mode of transport and chooses to complete the journey to the
declared place of visit by `own arrangement’ (such as personal vehicle or
private taxi etc.), if the public transport is already available in that part,
then he may be allowed the fare for the journey performed by authorised mode of
transport. This will be subject to the undertaking from the Government employee
that he has actually travelled to the declared place of visit and is not
claiming the fare reimbursement for the same.
10.
Government servant may apply for advance for himself and/or his family members
sixty five days before the proposed date of the outward journey and he/she is
required to produce the tickets within ten days of the drawal of advance,
irrespective of the date of commencement of the journey.
11.
Reimbursement under LTC scheme does not cover incidental expenses and
expenditure incurred on local journeys. Reimbursement for expenses of journey
is allowed only on the basis of a point to point journey on a through ticket
over the shortest direct route.
12.
The time limit for submission of LTC claim is :
• Within three months of completion of return journey, if no advance is drawn;
• Within one month of completion of return journey, if advance is drawn.
• Within three months of completion of return journey, if no advance is drawn;
• Within one month of completion of return journey, if advance is drawn.
13.
Government officials entitled to travel by air are required to travel by Air
India only in Economy Class at LTC-80 fare or less unless permitted to do so by
any general or specific provision.
14.
Officers not entitled to travel by air may travel by any airlines, however,
reimbursement in such cases shall be restricted to the fare of their entitled.
class of train or actual expense, whichever is less.
15.
In all cases whenever a Govt. servant travels by air, he/she is required to
book the air tickets either directly through the airlines or through the
approved travel agencies viz: M/s Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd/ M/s Ashok Tours
& Travels Ltd/ IRCTC. Booking of tickets through any other agency is not
permissible.
16.
Travel on tour packages is not allowed, except in the case of tours conducted
by Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), State Tourism Development
Corporation (STDC) and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).
In such cases, only the fare component shall be reimbursable provided
ITDC/STDC/IRCTC separately indicate the fare component and certify that the
journey was actually performed by the Government servant and his family members
for which he is claiming the Leave
Travel Concession.
17.
Please ensure that your LTC claim is as per the instructions to avoid rejection
of your claim.
