Headquarters/Home Town Leave Travel Concession : Central Government Employees’ Confusions Continue
Headquarters / Place of Posting and Home Town LTC: Central Government Employees’ Confusions Continue on this matter
“The number of Central Government employees utilizing the LTC facilities
has increased substantially thanks to the initiative of the tourism
department to encourage the development of economically-backward states”
Not many would have know this message that there are a number of retired
Central Government employees who had completed 40 years of their
service without utilizing even a single LTC facility.
“Once upon a time, LTC was considered as a wasteful expense…things have changed, and now people treat it as an indulgence…!”
In the past, not many were interested in LTC because the families were
big and only the lowest class journey fare was reimbursed by the Central
Government. But, now, LTC includes travel in air-conditioned class and
air-fare. Not surprisingly, employees are now very much interested and
are utilizing the facility without fail.
Practical difficulties began when a number of employees began to travel.
One of them was the situation where the office location and the
employee’s hometown are the same. Usually, Central Government employees
are posted in towns and cities that are away from their hometown, or
their native place. At the time of joining, the employees are required
to denote a village or town as their home Town. This cannot be changed.
Once in every four years, the Government would give the option to
reimburse the to and fro travel tickets for the employee and his/her
family to go to their hometown to meet their relatives and to look after
the family’s immovable properties located there. This facility is
called the Home Town LTC.
In the past, since only a few utilized this facility, there wasn’t any
confusion in implementing them. When the Government announced that Home
Town LTC could be converted as All India LTC, troubles began and
clarifications were required.
LTC rules state that the headquarter/place of posting and the employee’s
Home Town are the same, then he/she is not entitled to the conversion
of Home Town LTC.
There are many questions in the minds of the employees about this clause.
