Central Civil Services (Leave Travel concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfillment of Procedural requirements
No. 31011/3/2015-Estt (A.IV)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Establishment A-IV Desk
North Block, New Delhi-110 001
Dated: January 11, 2016
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:- Central Civil Services (Leave Travel concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfillment of Procedural requirements.
This Department is in receipt of a number of references regarding the procedural difficulties faced by the Government employees in application and settlement of the LTC claims. Sometimes, the Government servants claim that failure to follow the correct procedure was on account of a lack of knowledge of the rules/instructions while in the other cases the delay is caused in the late processing of LTC claims.
2. To remove these bottlenecks, this Department has decided to simplify the procedure of application and make the procedure of processing of LTC claims time bound. The following time-limits shall be followed while processing the LTC applications/claims of the Government servants.
| S.No. | Course of action | Time limit |
| 1. | Leave Sanction | 5 days + 2 days* |
| 2. | Sanction of LTC advance | 5 days + 2 days* |
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3. |
Time taken by Administration for verification of LTC claim after the LTC bill is submitted by the Government employee for settlement. |
10 days + 2 days* |
| 4. | Time taken by DDO | 5 days + 2 days* |
| 5. | Time taken by PAO | 5 days + 2 days* |
*It may be noted that in cases where the place of posting of the Government employees is away from their Headquarters, additional 2 days transit-time may be allowed. The person proceeds on LTC after S.No.1 and 2 i.e. after ten days of applying LTC.
3. Under CCS (LTC) Ruler, the Government servants are required to inform their Controlling Officer before the journey(s) on LTC to be undertaken. It has now been decided that the Leave Sanctioning Authority shall obtain a self-certification from the employee regarding the proposed LTC journey. The proforma for self-certification has been annexed with this O.M.
4. In addition to the above, it has been decided that whenever a Government servant applies for LTC, he/she may be provided with a copy of the guidelines (enclosed) which needs to be followed while availing LTC.
5. Employees may be encouraged to share interesting insights and pictures, if any, of the destination he/she visited while availing LTC on an appropriate forum.
6. Comments of the above proposal may be furnished within 15 days via e-mail to e- mail address [email protected]
Central Civil Services (Leave Travel concession) Rules, 1988 — Fulfillment of Procedural requirements.
LTC Guidelines Updated on 11/01/2015-Dopt
Proforma for self-certification by the Government employee
Suchanda says
This is very good initiative by Govt, many thanks. But I personally feel LTC to NER without road travel support to destination points in these parts are not worth and many cases are pending due to this. It is therefore requested to please see that claims by road travel in these regions may please be relaxed.
I am working in a CSIR lab and would like to avail NE LTC in lieu of home town LTC to visit Nathula Pass via Gangtok. I will be traveling by flight upto Bagdogra and from Bagdogra I have to travel by road since no other mode of transport is not available. As per my grade pay (Rs 7600) I am eligible for traveling by non-ac vehicles run by any Central/state/corporations as per DOPT OM regarding LTC dt 23 September 2008. I got a mail from Sikkim Tourism department regarding above travel by road, stating that it is LTC approved and bill & certificate will be given by them. Now I would like to know that this LTC claim for adjustment along with above mentioned documents is OK or some other document is required. Even at Bagdogra airport Pre-paid taxi run by W B Transport is also available. Can I use these taxis for travel to Gangtok. I know you may be aware of all these information, but thought to clear from my side. Time is very short, I am unable to finalize my travel booking because of these confusion. Kindly suggest and advice.
Thank you & regards
P J JOHN says
Thanks for the long awaited clarifications. Most of the genuine LTC claims pending in various Departments will now be cleared by the Deppt as well as PAOs. However, few issues still remain unresolved such as:-
(i) When a govt servant (entitled/non-entitled to travel by Air), while availing home-town LTC, travels by Air upto the Airport nearest to his home town and continue his journey in private taxi or by `own arrangements’ to reach his home town and furnish `self certificate’ stating that he has touched the destination i.e., home town, by private taxi or by `own arrangements’ with or without receipt issued by Taxi Services, will it(the claim) be acceptable from audit point of view. {eg:- parents/relatives comes to airport in their own vehicle to pick their them up or a pregnant woman opts to travel from airport upto her home town in private taxi instead of public transport/bus etc.} .
(ii) Similarly, while availing All India LTC, when the Govt Servant travels by Air upto the Airportnearest to his `declared destination’ and travels upto his `destination’ by private taxi or `by own arrangements’, will it be acceptable from audit point of view? In such cases, can the claim be admitted but restricting the reimbursement to the actual expenditure incurred to travel upto the nearest Airport only? It is understood that a large number of LTC Claims are pending in some Department under Ministry of Defence due to lack of above clarifications. While examining relevant provisions of LTC Rules, this may also be given due consideration.