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Govt employees can now take LTC advance 4 months before journey

Relaxing norms, the Centre on Friday allowed lakhs of its employees to take advance money four months ahead of commencing journey under Leave Travel Concession (LTC) rules.
A government employee gets reimbursement of tickets for to and fro journey, in addition to leaves, when he avails LTC.
The existing rules allow an employee to draw advance for LTC journey for himself and his family members 65 days before the proposed date of the outward journey.
Since the ministry of Railways has decided to increase the advance reservation period for booking accommodation in trains from 60 to 120 days, the time-limit for drawable of LTC advance by the government servants may be increased from 65 days to 125 days in case of journey by train, an order issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT) said.
The cases where the LTC journey is proposed to be undertaken by other modes of transport viz air, sea or road, the time-limit for drawing LTC advance shall remain 65 days only, it said.
In all such cases, it will be mandatory for the government servant to produce the outward journey tickets to the competent authority within 10 days of drawing of advance in order to verify that he has actually utilised the amount to purchase the tickets, the order said.
In another order, employees have been asked to compulsorily avail catering facilities provided on Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains.
Hindustan Times New Delhi,14th May 2016

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