FLASH NEWS ONAM BONUS AND FESTIVAL ALLOWANCE ANNOUNCED                                                                                                                                 

Kerala Employees LTC


Leave Travel Concession
 Leave Travel Concession will be allowed to those employees who have 15 years of service, to travel to any place in the Country, subject to a maximum of 2400 km, to and fro, along with their family once in their service.
Eligible persons:
(i) Who are appointed to State Government Service.
(ii) Staff of Aided Schools and Aided Colleges.
(iii) Full time ,employees borne on the contingent & work
charged establishments, employees of Local bodies.
Not Eligible Persons:
(a) Who are employed on Casual/Daily Wage basis/Contractbasis.
(b) Who are re-employed after their retirement.
(c) Persons during the period of leave without allowance for other employment/join spouse.
(d) During the course of suspension.
(e) Persons eligible for any other form of LTC.
(f) Persons appointed on consolidated pay.
(g) Part Time Contingent employees.
Employees Family
Employees family members are eligible for the scheme. Employees family includes an employee’s wife/husband and their surviving unmarried children/step children or legally adopted children wholly dependent upon the employee;
 ln order to avail LTC to the family members, every Government employee should furnish a list of family members who are dependent on him and the same has to be recorded in the Service Book of the employee.
Admissibility of Leave Travel Concession
(i)The Leave Travel Concession shall be admissible to the persons of the categories specified in clause (i), (ii), (iii) of Route (2) above with family, only once during the entire service, if they have completed fifteen years (15 years) of regular continuous service under the State Government or in aided educational institutions or taken together on the date of journey sought to be performed.For the purpose of computing this period, the service rendered by the Government servant qualifying for pension atone will be reckoned.
(ii)The Leave Travel Concession shall be admissible to are eligible persons for a maximum period of 15 days including holidays.
(iii) The Leave Travel Concession shall be admissible during any period of leave, other than Casual leave, Special casual leave and Maternity leave in the case of regular employees. The period of absence on account of availing Leave Travel Concession shall be regularized by granting earned leave, half pay leave, commuted leave or leave without allowance under Rule 88, Part l, KSRs.
 (iv) Teachers of schools and colleges will be allowed LTC on vacation.
(v) LTC shall be admissible during leave preparatory to retirement.
(vi) Originals of the train tickets/bus tickets/air tickets etc should be
produced with the claims.
 Place of Visit-
Anv place in lndia subject to a maximum of 6,500 km (combined distance of to and fro journeys to the destination), subject to the other provisions in the rules.
Reimbursement-
 Government will reimburse 100% of the to and fro fare by aircraft/road/steamer, as per the entitlements of the Government servant on tour as contemplated in Part ll KSRs. The assistance admissible with be the actual fare admissible subject to entitlement, for the actual distance travelled
from the home town of the Government Servant to the declared destination. But incidental expenses and DA for halt as admissible on Tour T.A, will not be granted.
Grant of Advance
 (a) Advance upto 90% of the estimated fare which Government would have to reimburse in respect of the cost of the journey both ways shall be admissible
(b)The Sanctioning Authority can sanction advance to an officer at the rate prescribed at (a) above.
(c)The final bill should be preferred within one month of the completion of return journey. lf that is not done, the entire advance should be recovered from the next salary bill of the incumbent after competition of 30 days' grace period. The Drawing and Disbursing officer (DDO) will be responsible and liable to pay the entire amount with penal interest, if he does not make the recovery in time. lf the advance amount is not utilized for the purpose, or if the journey is not commenced within 30 days from
the drawls of advance from Treasury, the entire amount should be recovered with 18% interest and disciplinary action should be taken.
(d) when no advance is drawn by the Government servant, the right of a Government Servant for reimbursement of LTC claims stands forfeited or deemed to have been relinquished, if the claim for it is not preferred within three months of the date of completion of return journey.
(e) ln the case of an officer on deputation who awails  of LTC immediately on reversion but before joining his parent office, the borrowing department may grant the advance in consultation with the parent department and enclose a copy of the order to the parent department to enable them to watch the adjustment of the
Advance
 (f) lf an Officer takes an advance under this scheme, he should ensure that the outward journey is commenced within 30 days from the date of grant of the advance.
(g) A proper record of advance sanctioned under the scheme should be maintained by the controlling officer and the sanctioning authority.
(h) Appropriate entries should be made in the service book of the employees.
(i) The Head of Department /Controlling Officer should keep a watch over the position of outstanding advances paid up to the end of the previous month and issue necessary orders regarding recovery of advance due for adjustment.
(j) Normally, the advance should be refunded in full if the outward journey is not commenced within 30 days of the grant of advance.
(k) The claims for adjustment of the advance should be preferred within one month of the competition of the return journey. lf no advance has been drawn, the claims should be preferred within 3 months.
(l) The Controlling Officers should maintain a register of LTC claims and advance registers. The register should be closed monthly on the tast day and put up to the Head of office for obtaining orders in regard to recovery of outstanding advances due for adjustment.
(m) After disbursing the advance, if the government employee dies before actually performing the journey, the entire advance shall be recovered from the entitlements due to the legal heirs.
(n) lf the government employee dies after performing the journey but before preferring the claims, the family members may claims the entitlements to be disbursed by the DDO concerned.
Mode of convevance for availinq LTC-
LTC will be admissible for the journey performed by rail / by road / by steamer / by air. However, the claim will be restricted to the actual expenses limited to the railway/road/steam/airfare by the authorized class of accommodation according to the eligibility of the officer on tour as contemplated in KSRs Part-ll.
Sanctionins Authoritv-
The Controlling Officers are authorized to sanction LTC to their subordinate Officers. ln the case of Head of Department, the sanctioning authority will be the Government in the Administrative Department concerned.

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