Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Government Employees who have availed LTC-80 and traveled by air by purchasing Ticket from other than authorized agents.

Grant of one time relaxation to the Central Government Employees who have availed LTC-80 and traveled by air by purchasing Ticket from other than authorized agents.

Shiva Gopal Mishra
Secretary

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National Council(Staff Side)
Joint Consultation Machinary
For Central Governmet Employees
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No.NC-JCM-2017

February 9 ,2017

The Secretary
Government of India,
Department of Personel& Training,
North Block,
New Delhi

Sub:-Grnat 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. Subsquently 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 to the DOPT seeking one time relaxation in such cases. The Seceratry (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 theDOPT has not agreed for granting bulk relaxation to thousands of Group B and Group C Defence Civilian Employees. Further DOPT has advise Ministry of Defence that the prposal for granting relaxation for booking of tickets through private travel agents may be scruinized individually and has given certain gudelines which is practically difficult to adopt at this stage, since many such employees are due to retire from service shortly.It will be difficult forthe administration to cross verify all those claims since the number of affected emloyees are more than 5000. In this situation we zuggest the following for your kind consideration

    “In the case of those employees who have purchase air tickets from othre 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
      same and the balance amount if any claimed the same may be recovered from
      the concerned employee”.

The above proposal if accepted wil reduce lot of administrative work and also will relive the concerned employees from financial and mental hardship,thereby
settling 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. A waiting for your favourable response please.

Thanking You,

Yours faithfully,
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Secretary

Source:confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers