Admissibility of Travelling
Allowance (TA) and other expenditure incurred while on training by the
Government Servants on probation
No.T-25014/1/2016-TRG (ISTM Section)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
(Training Division)
Old JNU Campus, Block IV,
New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi – 110 067
Dated: 21st January, 2016
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Admissibility of
Travelling Allowance (TA) and other expenditure incurred while on
training by the Government Servants on probation.
Institute of Secretariat Training and
Management (ISTM) is conducting Foundation Training Course of newly
recruited. Assistant Section Officers (DR) and Stenographers (DR). ISTM
has received number of references from various Ministries and
Departments, requesting for clarification, whether the expenditure
incurred by trainee Assistants, now re-designated as Assistant Section
Officers, for their boarding, lodging etc. while undergoing Foundation
Training, under the aegis of ISTM can be reimbursed to them.
Representations have also been received from Assistant Section Officers,
through their administrative Ministries in this regard.
2. The matter has been examined in
consultation with the IFD(MHA) with reference to the Supplementary Rules
164 and instructions issued by the Government from time to time under
the aforesaid Rules, which govern claims of Travelling Allowances while
on training by probationers. The rule position is clarified as under:-
(i) No Travelling Allowance may be allowed for the onward journey for joining the training institute;
(ii) No Travelling Allowance may be allowed to the probationers while they are taken for outstation for training activity;
(iii) Probationers have to pay boarding /lodging /transport charges, if any, from their pocket.
(iv) No daily allowance may be admissible.
(v) One side TA may be allowed to the
participants while reporting for duty in the allocated
Ministry/Department on completion of the Training Programme from an
outstation Institute, which are located at Hyderabad, Kolkata,
Chandigarh, Shimla and Jaipur, where such training is being conducted by
ISTM at present, or any other State Training Institute, which may be
identified later, outside NCR.
3. All Ministries/Departments of
Government of India are, therefore, advised to decide the claims made by
Assistant Section Offices in respect of reimbursement of expenditure by
them for boarding/lodging and other transport charges during the period
of their Foundation Training conducted by ISTM, in accordance with the
provisions contained at para (2) of this O.M. In case, any reimbursement
has already been made, the same may be recovered immediately.
4. This issues with the concurrence with the IFD(MHA), vide their Dy. No. 299/Fin.II/15, dated 31.12.2015.
(O.P. Chawla)Under Secretary to the Government of India
Tel: 011-2616 6856
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