Camp Allowance and TA Bounty

Camp Allowance and TA Bounty

Both these allowances are granted to personnel of Territorial Army. Camp Allowance is paid to these personnel when they are called up for training, at a rate of ₹10 per day. TA Bounty is paid when these personnel are embodied for training at the following rates:

There are demands to increase the rates of these allowances four-fold.

 Analysis and Recommendations

 The Territorial Army is an organization of nearly 40,000 volunteers whose role is to relieve the regular Army from static duties and assist civil administration in dealing with natural calamities and maintenance of essential services in situations where life of the communities is affected or the security of the country is threatened and to provided units for regular Army as and when required.

Considering its importance and the need to incentivize volunteers to join, it is recommended that the Camp Allowance and the TA Bounty should be merged into a single allowance to be called Territorial Army Allowance, with the following rates:

 The amount of allowance will increase by 25 percent each time DA rises by 50 percent. As is the case with TA Bounty at present, 100 percent of the amount of Territorial Army Allowance shall be granted for completing full training and 75 percent of the amount will be granted for completing more than 80 percent of the training.