Ease of Working in Government -Simplified LTC for Babus
DoPT is in receipt of a number of references regarding the procedural difficulties faced by the Government employees in application and settlement of the LTC claims. Sometimes, the Government servants claim that failure to follow the correct procedure was on account of a lack of knowledge of the rules/instructions. It is alleged that in some cases, processing of LTC claims takes unduly long time, particularly when the employee and the sanctioning authorities are located at different stations.
To remove these bottlenecks, it has been decided to simplify the procedure of application and make the procedure of processing of LTC claims time bound. The following time-limits shall be followed while processing the LTC applications/claims of the Government servants.
S.No. | Course of action | Time limit |
1. | Leave Sanction | 5 working day + 3 working days* |
2. | Sanction of LTC advance/Leave encashment | 5 working day + 3 working days* |
3. | Time taken by Administration for verification of LTC claim after the LTC bill is submitted by the Government employee for settlement. | 10 working days + 3 working days* |
4. | Time taken by DDO | 5 working days + 3 working days* |
5. | Time taken by PAO | 5 working days + 3 working days* |
*(a) Additional 3 days transit-time may be allowed in cases where the place of posting of the Government employees is away from their Headquarters, The Government employee may proceed on LTC after action on S.No. 1.
The current two year block is 2016-17 and the current four year block is 2014-17 for LTC.
Travel by private modes of transport is not allowed on LTC, however, wherever a public transport is not available, assistance shall be allowed for the private transport subject to the certification from an Appropriate Authority that no other public/Government mode of transport is available for that particular stretch of journey and these modes operate on a regular basis from point to point with the specific approval of the State Governments/Transport authorities concerned and are authorised to ply as public carriers.
If a Government servant travels on LTC upto the nearest airport/ railway station by authorized mode of transport and chooses to complete rest of the journey to the declared place of visit by 'own arrangement' (such as personal vehicle or private taxi etc.), while the public transport system is already available in that part, then he may be allowed the fare reimbursement till the last point where he has travelled by the authorised mode of transport. This will be subject to the undertaking from the Government employee that he has actually travelled to the declared place of visit and is not claiming the fare reimbursement for the part of journey performed by the private owned/operated vehicle.
Please also see Also see - Pleasant Language in Government - LTC Guidelines