Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Government Employees who have availed LTC-80 and traveled by air by purchasing ticket from authorities other than authorized agents
Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary
Ph: 23382286
National Council (Staff Side)
Joint Consultative Machinery
For central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi - 110 001
E Mail: nc.jcm.np@gmail.com
No.NC-JCM-2019/DOPT (LTC)
September , 2019
The Secretary
Government Of India
Department of Personnel and Training
North Block
New Delhi
Sub: Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Govt. Employees who have availed LTC-80 and traveled by air by purchasing ticket from authorities other than authorized agents
Dear sir,
The above demand was discussed as Item No.15 of the standing committee meeting of the National Council (JCM) held on 7-3-2019. The extract from the minutes of the above meeting is gives below for your kind ready reference.
Staff side proposed that
if the employee has actually traveled in Air India flight, then the LTC-80 fare of the journey day may be paid to him irrespective of the fact that ticket was purchased from authorized agent or not. Any excess amount over and above the LTC-80 fare can be recovered;
No disciplinary action and stoppage of future LTC may be taken;
A general instruction in this regard may be issued to all the Departments to regularize all the pending LTC-80 cases as above.
‘Chairman agreed to consider the demand of the staff side’.
Sir, as agreed in the meeting a general instruction as above has not yet been issued by the DOP&T. It is therefore requested that since the employees are subjected to undue hardship, necessary instructions in this regard may please be issued at the earliest.
Thanking you
Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours - Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent
No. 19024/2212017-E.IV
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 19th July, 2017
Office Memorandum
Subject: Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours - Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent.
The
undersigned is directed to refer to this Departments' O.M. No.
19024/1/2005-E.IV dated 24.03.2006, O.M. No. 19024/1/2009-E.IV dated
16.09.2010 and O.M. No. 19024/1/2012-E.IV dated 09.07.2013 regarding
guidelines on Air travel. As per these guidelines, in all cases of Air
Travel where the Government of India bears the cost of air passage, Air
Tickets may be purchased directly from Airlines (at Booking
counters/office/website of Airlines) and if needed, by utilizing the
services of three Authorized Travel Agents viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie &
Company Limited (BLCL), M/s Ashok Travels & Tours (ATT) and Indian
Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC).
This
Department is receiving a large number of proposals from various
Ministries/Departments seeking ex-post-facto relaxation of the
prescribed procedure for purchase of air tickets from authorized travel
agents only.
The matter has been reconsidered in this Department. All Ministries/Departments are again directed to:
(i)
Ensure strict compliance of extant guidelines for purchase of air
ticket directly from Airlines (at Booking counters/office/website of
Airlines) or from three authorized Travel Agents viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie
& Company Limited, M/s Ashok Travels & Tours and IRCTC only by
all officials/offices under their control. Henceforth relaxation on
account of ignorance/unawareness of these guidelines will not be
considered by this Department.
(ii) In case of non-availability of
authorized agent at a particular place, ticket may be booked from
website of Airlines or web portal of Balmer Lawrie & Company Ltd.,
M/s Ashok Travels & Tours and IRCTC.
(iii) In respect of
Non-officials of Committees/Boards/Panels, the concerned Ministry/
Department have to mention in the meeting notice that the Non-official
Member has to purchase the ticket from authorized travel agent only
otherwise his claim will not be settled by that Ministry/Department.
(iv)
All Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, etc. have to
widely circulate this O.M. in all offices including attached/subordinate
offices/ autonomous bodies under their control with specific
instructions to Heads of Departments concerned for strict compliance of
these guidelines. Non-compliance of these guidelines by
Ministries/Departments will be treated as lapse on the part of the
concerned Ministry/Department.
(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Clarification on Purchase of Air ticket - DoE Orders dt.27.2.2018
No.19024/22/2017-EIV Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi Dated the 27th February, 2018
Office Memorandum
Subject: Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours - Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent.
The
undersigned is directed to refer to this Departments' O.M No,
19024/22/2017-E.IV dated 19.07.2017 regarding guidelines on Air travel
where the Govt. of India bears the cost of passage. As per this 0.M.,
Ministries/Departments were asked to ensure that these instructions are
given adequate coverage and were to be circulated to all so that ‘lack
of knowledge’ of the rules is not cited as an excuse. In spite of these
instructions, a large number of cases for relaxation of air travel
guidelines due to purchase of air ticket from unauthorized travel
agents, are still being received in this Department.
2. The matter
has been re-considered and it has been decided that all such cases of
air travel where tickets have been purchased after issue of this
Department's O.M. dated 19.07.2017, seeking relaxation of air travel
guidelines pertaining to purchase of air ticket from authorized agent,
should have the approval of Secretary of the Administrative Ministry
before referring the same to Department of Expenditure.
This is issued with the approval of Secretary Expenditure.
sd/- (Nirmala Dev) Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours - Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent - DoE Orders
No.19024/22/2017-E.IV Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 19th July, 2017
Office Memorandum
Subject: Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours - Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent.
The
undersigned is directed to refer to this Departments’ OM.
No.19024/1/2005-E.IV dated 24.03.2006, OM. No.19024/1/2009-E.IV dated
16.09.2010 and OM. No.19024/1/2012-E.IV dated 09.07.2013 regarding
guidelines on Air travel. As per these guidelines, in all cases of Air
Travel where the Government of India bears the cost of air passage, Air
Tickets may be purchased directly from Airlines (at Booking
counters/office/website of Airlines) and if needed, by utilizing the
services of three Authorized Travel Agents viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie &
Company Limited (BLCL), M/s Ashok Travels & Tours (ATT) and Indian
Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC).
2. This
Department is receiving a large number of proposals from various
Ministries/Departments seeking ex-post-facto relaxation of the
prescribed procedure for purchase of air tickets from authorized travel
agents only.
3. The matter has been reconsidered in this Department. All Ministries/Departments are again directed to:
(i)
Ensure strict compliance of extant guidelines for purchase of air
ticket directly from Airlines (at Booking counters/office/Website of
Airlines) or from three authorized Travel Agents viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie
& Company Limited, M/s Ashok Travels & Tours and IRCTC only by
all officials/offices under their control. Henceforth relaxation on
account of ignorance/unawareness of these guidelines will not be
considered by this Department.
ii) In case of non-availability of
authorized agent at a particular place, ticket may be booked from
website of Airlines or web portal of Balmer Lawrie & Company Ltd.,
M/s Ashok Travels & Tours and lRCTC.
iii) In respect of
Non-officials of Committees/Boards/Panels, the concerned
Ministry/Department have to mention in the meeting notice that the
Non-official Member has to purchase the ticket from authorized travel
agent only otherwise his claim will not be settled by that
Ministry/Department.
iv) All Ministries/Departments of the
Government of India, etc. have to widely circulate this OM. in all
offices including attached/subordinate offices/ autonomous bodies under
their control with specific instructions to Heads of Departments
concerned for strict compliance of these guidelines. Non-compliance of
these guidelines by Ministries/Departments will be treated as lapse on
the part of the concerned Ministry/Department.
sd/-
(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Government Employees who
have availed LTC-80 and travelled by air by purchasing Ticket from other
than authorized agents
Shiva Gopal Mishra Secretary
Ph: 23382286 National Council (Staff Side) Joint Consultations Mechinery For Central Government Employees
13-C, Ferozshah Road, New Delhi - 110001
E-mail :nc.jcm.np@gmail.com
No.NC-JCM-2017/ The Secretary, Government of India, Department of Personnel & Training,
North Block,
New Delhi
February 9, 2017
Sub: Grant
of one time relaxation to the Central Government Employees who have
availed LTC-80 and travelled by air by purchasing Ticket from other than
authorized agents.
Ref:- Decision taken in the New Agenda No.III of the Standing Committee meeting of the National Council (JCM) held on 25.10.2016
Dear Sir,
In the Standing Committee meeting of the National Council (JCM) held
under your chairmanship on 25.10.2016 the Staff Side informed that many
non entitled Central government Employees had availed themselves the
benefit of LTC-80 and purchased ticket from unauthorized agents, unaware
of the rule position. Subsequently audit had returned the LTC final
claims without sanctioning them and advised the administrative divisions
of the Ministries concerned to recover the entire LTC advance from
their salary. The staff Side also informed that Ministry of Defence,
with the approval of Hon’ble Defence Minister had forwarded a proposal
the DOPT seeking one time relaxation in such cases. The Secretary (P)
informed in the meeting that the entire issue is under consideration of
the DOPT.
To our shock and surprise the Ministry of Defence vide
their ID Note dated 3.2.2017 has issue a letter to the lower formations
(copy enclosed) stating that the DOPT has not agreed for granting bulk
relaxation to thousands of Group B and Group C Defence Civilian
Employees. Further DOPT has advised Ministry of Defence that the
proposal for granting relaxation for booking of tickets through private
travel agents may be scrutinized individually and has given certain
guidelines which is practically difficult to adopt at this stage, since
many such employees are due to retire from service shortly. It will be
difficult for the administration to cross verify all those claims since
the number of affected employees are more than 5000. In this situation
we suggest the following for your kind consideration.
“In the case
of those employees who have purchase air tickets from other than
authorized agents and have actually travelled and submitted the tickets
along with boarding pass, in such cases the administration may find out
the actual LTC-80 fare from the concerned Airlines on that particular
date when the concerned employee actually traveled and the claim may be
restricted to the same and the balance amount if any calimed the same
may be recovered from the concerned employee”.
The above proposal
if accepted will reduce lot of administrative work and also will relieve
the concerned employees from financial and mental hardship, thereby
setting and outstanding issue once for all. In case of any further
clarification required the Staff Side may please be invited for a
discussion on the subject. Awaiting for your favorable response please.
In view of reported
irregularities and misuse of LTC, the Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT), vide O.M. No. 31011/3/2013-Estt.(A-IV) dated
12.07.2016, has issued draft guidelines to be followed while booking the
air tickets for stakeholders consultation. The guidelines will be
finalized after considering all the inputs received from the
stakeholders.
This was stated by the Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS
PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and
Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Dr. C.
Gopalakrishnan in the Lok Sabha today.
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