National Council
(Staff Side)
Joint Consultative
Machinery
for Central
Government Employees
13-C Ferozshah Road,
New Delhi-110001.
Shiva
Gopal Mishra
Secretary
No.NC-JCM-2017 February
9,2017
The
Secretary,
Government
of India,
Department
of Personnel & Training,
North
Block,
New
Delhi
Sub:- Grant 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. Subsequently 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 Secretary (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 the DOPT has not
agreed for granting bulk relaxation to thousands of Group B and Group C Defence
Civilian Employees. Further DOPT has advised Ministry of Defence that the
proposal for granting relaxation for booking of tickets through private travel
agents may be scrutinized individually and has given certain guidelines which
is practically difficult to adopt at this stage, since many such employees are
due to retire from service shortly. It will be difficult for the administration
to cross verify all those claims since the number of affected employees are
more than 5000. In this situation we suggest the following for your kind consideration.
“In
the case of those employees who have purchase air tickets from other then
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
concerned employee actually travelled and the claim may be restricted to the
same and the balance amount if any claimed the same may be recovered from the
concerned employee”.
The above proposal if
accepted will reduce lot of administrative work and also will relieve 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. Awaiting
for your favourable response please.
Thanking
you,
Yours faithfully,
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Secretary
