CCS (Leave Travel Concession) Rules, 1988

Rule-1. Short Title and commencement:

1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (LTC)

Rules, 1988.

2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in

the Official Gazette.

3) These rules shall apply to:

(a) who are appointed to civil services and posts, including

civilian Govt. servants in the Defence Services.

(b) who are employed under a State Government and who

are on deputation with the Central Government.

(c) who are appointed on a contract basis.

(d) who are re-employed after their retirement.

4) These rules shall not apply to:

(i) Government servants not in whole-time employment.

(ii) Persons in casual and daily-rated employment.

(iii) Persons paid from contingencies.

(iv) Railway servants.

(v) Members of the Armed Forces.

 (vi) Local recruits in Indian Missions abroad.

(vii) Persons eligible for any other form of travel concession

available during leave or otherwise.

**Govt. Decision:**

(1) Employees and spouses of employees of Indian

Railways and National Airlines shall continue to be
debarred for LTC facility as they are entitled for "Free
Pass" facility. 31.12.2023 Date of Appointment
LTC????
From which date?
30.12.2024 - 1 year complete
31.12.2024 _Start

Govt. Decision:

(1) Employees and spouses of employees of Indian Railways

and National Airlines shall continue to be debarred for LTC
facility as they are entitled for "Free Pass" facility.

**(2) LTC to Indian Railway employee (and Government

servants whose spouses are railway servants)**

(a) Indian Railway employee allowed to avail All India LTC once
in a block of four years after surrender of privilege passes.
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(b) No Home LTC will be admissible for Railway employee.

(c) No Home Town converted LTC shall be allowed to them.

(d) If both spouses are railway employees, they can avail All
India LTC after the surrender of privilege passes.

(e) In case of Govt. employee whose spouse is working in

Railway, want to avail, “All India LTC”, either independently with
family member subject to surrender privilege passes for that
year.

**Rule-2. Special provisions regarding certain categories of

employees**

(1) The leave travel concession shall be admissible on

completion of **one year’s continuous service** under the
Central Government.

(2) For the clause (b), (c), and (d) of sub-rule 3 of 1 it is certified
by the appropriate administrative authority that the employee
SG-> CG
concerned is likely to continue to serve under the Central Contract
Reemployed
Government for a period of **at least two years in the case of GS

leave travel concession to home town** and **at least four

years in the case of leave travel concession to any place in
India** to be reckoned from the date of his joining the post
under the Central Government.

**(3)** In the case of officers appointed on a contract basis,

where the initial contract is for one year but is later extended,
the total duration of the contract will be taken into account for
the purpose of LTC.

**(4)** In the case of persons re-employed, immediately after

retirement without any break, the period of re-employed service
will be treated as continuous with the previous service for the
purpose of leave travel concession, and the concession
allowed for the re-employed period, provided that the leave
travel concession would have been admissible to the
re-employed officer had he not retired but had continued as
serving office.

**Illustration** – If an officer has availed of the concession to

visit any place in India in respect of a block of four years before
his retirement and he is re-employed without any break, he
cannot avail this concession till the expiry of the **particular
block of four years**.

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**Rule-3. Scope**
The leave travel concession will cover the Government servant
himself and his family.

**Rule-4. Definition**:
(a) **A place in India** – will cover any place within the territory
of India, whether it is on the mainland, India or overseas.

(b) **Controlling officer** – means an officer declared as such

under SR 191.

(c) **Disciplinary Authority** – shall have the same meaning as

CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965. Rule 12

**(d) Family - means Govt. servant's**

(i) Wife or husband and two unmarried children of stepchildren
wholly dependent on Govt. servant, irrespective of residing with
or not.
- **Son** - Age 25 years for son or marriage or earning,
whichever is earlier.
- **Daughter** - Irrespective of age limit but marriage or
earning, whichever is earlier.

(ii) Married daughter who has been divorced, abandoned, or

separated from their husband and widow daughters and are
residing with the govt. servant and wholly dependent.

(iii) Parents/stepfather and stepmother (stepparent) residing

with and wholly dependent on Govt. servant.
(iv) Unmarried minor brothers as well as unmarried, divorced,
abandoned, separated from their husband or widow sisters
residing with and wholly dependent on the G.S.

**Note:**
(1) Eligible for more than **two children born prior to
20.10.1997** and second multiple births.
(2) Not more than **one wife** in terms of family. But two legally
wedded and second marriage in specific permission is allowed.
(3) Condition of dependency is not applicable on husband and
wife.

**(4) LTC to a newly married husband of a female Govt.

servant**
When a female Govt. servant proceeds to her home town,
availing of LTC and gets married in the Home Town, LTC may
be allowed also to the husband of the female G.S. servant, for
the journey performed by him from the **home town** to the
**HQ** of the female G.S.

Home Town - means the town, village, or any other place

declared as such by the Government servant and accepted by
the controlling officer.
Short direct route - shall have the same meaning as given in
SR 30 and orders issued thereunder from time to time.

**Rule-5. Change of Home Town**

The home town once declared and accepted by the controlling
officer shall be **treated as final**. In exceptional
circumstances, the **Head of the Department** or, if the
Government servant himself is the Head of the Department, the
**Administrative Ministry**, may authorize a change in such
declaration provided that, such a change shall not be made
**more than once during the service of a Government
servant**.

**Conditions considered for change of home town**:

(a) Whether the place declared by the Govt. Servant is the one
that requires his physical presence at intervals for discharging
various domestic and social obligations, and if so, whether after
his entry into the service book, the govt. servant visits that
place frequently.
(b) Whether the Govt. servant owns residential property in that
place or whether he is a member of a joint family having such
property there.
(c) Whether his near relations are resident in that place.
(d) Whether, prior to his entry into Govt. service, the Govt.
servant had been living there for some years.

**Rule-6. Declaration of place of visit under LTC to any

place in India**:
(a) When the concession to visit any place in India is proposed
to be availed of by a Government servant, he shall submit a
declaration of the intended place of visit in advance...

(b) The declared place of visit may be **changed before the

commencement of the journey with the approval of his
controlling officer**, but it may not be changed after the
commencement of the journey except in exceptional
circumstances where it is established that the request for
change could not be made before the commencement of the
journey owing to circumstances beyond the control of the
Government servant.

(c) This relaxation may be made by the Administrative

Ministry/Department or by the Head of the Department, as the
case may be.

**Rule-7. Admissibility of Leave Travel Concession**

(a) One year's continuous service on the date of journey
performed by him or his family, as the case may be, to avail of
the concession.

(b) The leave travel concession shall be admissible during any

period of leave, including casual leave and special casual
leave.

(c) LTC is admissible during CCL, Maternity leave, Paternity

Leave, Child adoption leave.

(d) LTC is admissible during study leave from study place but
the fare will be restricted to the distance from HQ to visiting
place or Home Town, actual expenditure or whichever is less.

(e) LTC is not admissible during weekends following holidays

without leave.

**Govt. Decision**

**Entitlement of LTC in special cases**

**(1) Entitled to reimbursement in respect of outward journey
only** -
(a) A dependent son/daughter getting employment or getting
married after going to home town or remaining there for
prosecution of studies.
(b) The family having performed the journey to the home town
have no intention of completing the return journey from the
home town, provided that the G.S. foregoes in writing the
concession in respect of the return journey if performed by the
family members at a **subsequent date**.

**(2) Entitled to reimbursement in respect of the return journey

only** -
(a) A newly married wife coming from home town to HQ station
or a wife who has been living long at home town and did not
avail herself of the LTC in respect of the outward journey.
(b) A dependent son/daughter returning with parents or coming
along from the home town where he/she has been prosecuting
studies or living with grandparents, etc.
(c) A child who was previously below **five/twelve years of
age** but has completed **five/twelve years of age** only at the
time of the return journey. Entitled for full fare in return
journeys.
(d) A child legally adopted by G.S. while staying in the home
town.
**Note** - The above entitlement will be equally applicable in
the case of **“LTC to anywhere in India”** also.

(3) LTC when both husband and wife are Government

servants** -
(a) They can declare separate home towns separately.

(b) They can claim LTC for their respective families, viz., while
the husband can claim for his parents/step-parents/minor
brothers/sisters, the wife can avail for her
parents/step-parents/minor brothers and sisters.

(c) The children can claim the concession as a member of the

family of any one of the parents in a particular block.

(d) The husband or wife who avails LTC as a member of the

family of the spouse cannot claim independently for self.

(4) LTC facility for an escort accompanying a single

handicapped Govt. Servant.

**(5) LTC to officials under suspension** - Self Govt. servant

cannot avail of LTC under suspension but his members of the
family are entitled to LTC.
**(6)** During Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LPR), one can
avail of LTC but the return journey must be completed before
the expiry of leave.

**(7)** No Govt. employees whose HQ/place of posting and

home town are the same are eligible for home town LTC.

**Rule-8. Types of Leave Travel Concession**

(a) The leave travel concession to the home town shall be

admissible irrespective of the distance between the
headquarters of the Government servant and his home town,
once in a block of two calendar years, i.e., 2018-19, 2020-21,
and so on.

(b) The leave travel concession to any place in India shall be

admissible irrespective of the distance between the place of
visit from the headquarters of the Government servant.

(c) **The concession to home town LTC** is allowed once in a

block of two calendar years. However, a Govt. servant (married
or unmarried) who has his family living away from his HQ at
home town can avail his concession for himself alone every
year if he forgoes the eligibility of his family and himself for the
All India LTC.

(d) **Entitlement of fresh recruits**

1st one year- NO LTC---- 2/3/4- HT LTC 5th Year 1 AI LTC

(a) For **“Fresh Recruits”** to the Central Govt. employee may

be allowed to travel their home town along with his family on
**three occasions in a block of four years** and to any place in
India on the **fourth occasion**. This facility shall be available
to fresh recruits only for the **first two blocks of the four years**
applicable after joining the Govt. for the first time. This
entitlement is eligible after **completion of one year service**.

(b) At the end of the **eighth year of LTC**, he will be entitled in

the regular block as per usual LTC Rules.

(c) A fresh recruit whose HQ and home town is the same,

cannot avail LTC to home town. He may avail LTC to any place
in India on the fourth and eighth occasion only.

Example: Date of Joining 1st January: 2009:

02.04.2009 01.04.2010
02.04.10- 31.12.10

Rule-9. Counting of leave travel concession against

particular blocks:

(a) A Government servant and members of his family availing

of leave travel concession may travel in different groups at
different times during a block of two or four years, as the case
may be.

(b) The concession so availed of will be counted against the

block of two years or four years within which the outward
journey commenced, even if the return journey was performed
after the expiry of the block of two years or four years. This will
apply to availing of leave travel concession carried forward in
terms of Rule 10.
(c) Some members of the family can avail concession to the
home town while some others for visiting “anywhere in India” in
the same two years block.

**Rule-10. Carry over of leave travel concession**

(a) A Government servant who is unable to avail of the leave

travel concession within a particular block of two years or four
years may avail of the same within the first year of the next
block of two years or four years.

(b) If a government servant is entitled to leave travel

concession to home town, he can carry forward the leave travel
concession to any place in India for a block of four years only if
he has carried forward the leave travel concession to home
town in respect of the second block of two years within the
block of four years.

**Example - LTC Block year 2018-2021 Carry over the LTC

(LTC Block Year Grace Period)**

(a) **1st Block Year 2018-2019**: An employee can avail of the

concession to Home Town before **31st December 2020**.

(b) **2nd Block Year 2020-2021**: He can avail of the

concession Anywhere in India before **31st December 2022**.
**Rule-11. Place to be visited by Government servant and
members of his family under leave travel concession to
any place in India**

A Government servant and each member of his family may visit

different places of their choice during a block of four years. It
shall not be necessary for members of a family of a
Government servant to visit the same place as that visited by
the Government servant himself at any time earlier during the
same block.

Rule-12. Entitlement

(1) For travel under the Scheme of leave travel concession, the
entitlement shall be as under from 01.07.2017:

A.
(i) Travel Entitlements within the Country
(ii) It has also been decided to allow the Government officials to
travel by Premium Trains/premium Tatkal Trains/Suvidha
Trains, the reimbursement to Premium Tatkal Charges for
booking of tickets and the reimbursement of Dynamic/Flexi fare
in Shatabdi/Rajdhani/Duranto Trains while on official
tour/training. Reimbursement of Tatkal Seva Charges which
has flexi-fare will remain continued to be allowed. Travel
entitlement for the journey in Premium/Premium
tatkal/Suvidha/Shatabdi/Rajdhani/Duranto Trains will be as
under:

Note: Level 6 to 8 are allowed air travel in respect of TA

only not for LTC.

(iii) The revised Travel entitlements are subject to the

following:

(a) In case of places not connected by rail, travel by AC bus for

all those entitled to travel by AC II Tier and above by train and
by Deluxe/ordinary bus for others is allowed.
(b) In case of road travel between places connected by rail,
travel by any means of public transport is allowed provided the
total fare does not exceed the train fare by the entitled class.

(c) In case of non-availability of seats in entitled class, Govt.

servants may travel in the class below their entitled class.

B. International Travel entitlement

C. Entitlement for journeys by sea or by River Steamer

(i) For places other than A&N Group of islands and

Lakshadweep Group of islands:

(ii) For travel between the mainland and the A&N Group of
islands and Lakshadweep Group of islands by ships
operated by the Shipping Corporation of India Limited:
D. Mileage Allowance for Journeys by Road

(i) At places where specific rates have been prescribed:

(ii) At places where no specific rates have been prescribed

either by directorate or transport of the concerned state or
of the neighboring state:

Govt. Decision

(1) Authorized agent for air ticket booking:

(a) M/s Balmer and Lawrie and Company Limited
(b) M/s Ashok Travels and Tours
(c) IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation)

(2) **Procedure of booking ticket** - Govt. servant is required to

book tickets directly from the airlines (booking counters,
website of airlines) and utilizing the service of authorized
agents.

(3) **Special Relaxation to Visit to N-E Region, UT of J&K, UT

of Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Island by air in all India
LTC.**

(4) **Relaxation to travel by air to visit North-East Region, UT of

J&K, UT of Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands -
Extension beyond 25.09.2020 to 25.09.2022 as under**:

(a) LTC for visiting NER, J&K, Ladakh, and A&N in lieu of a
Home Town LTC.

(b) Facility of journey to non-entitled Govt. for visiting NER,

J&K, and A&N by private airlines.

(c) All eligible govt. servants may avail LTC to visit any place in
NER/J&K/Ladakh and A&N against the conversion of their one
Home Town LTC in a four-year block.
(d) Govt. servants, whose home town and HQ/Place of posting
is the same, are not allowed to the conversion.

(e) Fresh recruits are allowed conversion of one of the three

home town LTCs in a block of four years, applicable to them to
visit NER/A&N/J&K/Ladakh. They are also allowed one
additional conversion of one home town LTC to visit J&K/UT of
Ladakh in a block of four years.

(f) Govt. servants not entitled to travel by air are allowed to

travel by air in Economy class by any airlines subject to the
maximum fare of LTC-80 in the following sectors:
(i) Between Kolkata / Guwahati and any place in NER.

(ii) Between Kolkata / Chennai / Vishakhapatnam and

Port Blair.

(iii) Between Delhi/Amritsar and any place in

J&K/Ladakh.

**Rule-13. Reimbursement**
Reimbursement under the leave travel concession scheme
shall not cover incidental expenses and expenditure incurred
on local journeys. Reimbursement for expenses of journey shall
be allowed only on the basis of a point-to-point journey on a
through ticket over the shortest direct route.

**Govt Decision**

**(1) LTC when journey performed by longer route** -

When a government servant or any member of his family
performs the journey by a longer route (which is not the
cheapest) in two different classes of railway accommodation,
then the entitled class rate will be admissible for the
corresponding proportion of the shortest or the cheapest route
and the lower-class rate for the remaining mileage by such
route.

**Example** - If the total distance by the longer route is 1,100

KM and that by the shortest route is 1,000 KM and if the
Government servant concerned has travelled the initial 800 KM
by II Class and the remaining 300 KM by I Class, Government's
share of reimbursement of the expenditure incurred in this case
should be as follows:

(i) Mileage for which II Class fare will be admissible:

Distance actually travelled by II Class X Total distance by the

shortest route
Total distance by the longer route =

(ii) Mileage for which I Class fare will be admissible:

Distance actually travelled by I Class X Total distance by the

shortest route
Total distance by the longer route =

(2) Reimbursement of charges for train tickets booked through

"Internet" for Railways journeys and Reimbursement of
service tax and Education cess on air travel on tour/transfer or
LTC.

(3) Admissible catering charges in respect of rail journeys

performed on LTC where catering facility is compulsory.

(4) Child fare in Train

(5) Child fare in Air

(a) Age of child is up to 2 years (24 Months) is usually

charged 10% of an adult fare plus taxes if he or she will be
sitting on an adult's lap.

(b) Age of child above 2 years full fare equal to adult fare.

(6) Time limits for processing of application of LTC

*Additional 3 days transit time may be allowed in cases where

the place of posting of the G.S. is away from their HQ.

Rule-14. Forfeiture of claim

A claim for reimbursement of expenditure incurred on a journey
under leave travel concession shall be submitted within three
months after the completion of the return journey if no advance
had been drawn. Failure to do so will entail forfeiture of the
claim and no relaxation shall be permissible in this regard.

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**Govt. Decision**

(1) **Time limit for submission of LTC claims**:

(a) If Advance is drawn, within one month of the completion of
the return journey.
(b) If Advance is not drawn, within three months of the
completion of the return journey.

(2) **Relaxation in time limit with concurrence with the financial

Adviser**:
(a) Up to 3 months if advance is drawn, and refund the entire
amount of advance or unutilized portion of advance within 45
days of completion of the return journey.
(b) Up to 6 months if no advance is drawn.

**Rule-15. Grant of advance and adjustment thereof**

(i) Advance may be granted to Government servants up to 90%

of the estimated amount in respect of the cost of the journey
both ways.
(ii) If the family travels separately from the Government servant,
the advance may also be drawn separately to the extent
admissible.

(iii) The advance should be refunded in full if the outward

journey is not commenced within **65 days** of the grant of
advance (in case of Sea/air/road).

(iv) Time limit of LTC Advance in a journey by train before 125

days (i.e., 4 months and 5 days) from the date of the journey.
The government servant should produce the tickets within 10
days of the drawal of advance, irrespective of the date of
commencement of the journey.

(v) Where an advance has been drawn by the Government

servant, the claim for reimbursement of the expenditure
incurred on the journey shall be submitted within one month of
the completion of the return journey. On a Government
servant's failure to do so, he shall be required to refund the
entire amount of advance along with interest thereon. No
request for the drawal of advance for LTC shall be entertained
in such cases.

**Govt. Decision**
(a) **Rate of penal interest on unutilized advance** - 2% above
GPF.

**Rule-16. Fraudulent claim of leave travel concession**

(1) If a decision is taken by the disciplinary Authority to initiate

disciplinary proceedings against a Government servant on the
charge of preferring a fraudulent claim of leave travel
concession, such Government servant shall not be allowed the
leave travel concession till the finalization of such disciplinary
proceedings.

(2) If the disciplinary proceedings result in the imposition of any

of the penalties specified in Rule 11 of the Central Civil
Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965, the
Government servant shall not be allowed the next two sets of
the leave travel concession in addition to the sets already
withheld during the pendency of the disciplinary proceedings.
For reasons to be recorded in writing, the Controlling Authority
can also disallow more than two sets of leave travel
concession.

(3) If the Government servant is fully exonerated of the charge

of fraudulent claim of leave travel concession, he shall be
allowed to avail of the concession withheld earlier as additional
set(s) in future block years but before the normal date of his
superannuation.

**Govt. Decision**

(1) Both PNR No. and Ticket No. should be furnished.

**Special Cash Package in lieu of LTC Block year

2018-2021**

1. A number of Govt. servants are not in a position to avail of

LTC travel to any place in India and their home towns in the
current block year 2018-21.
2. In the special Cash Package, it has been decided that cash
equivalent of LTC, comprising leave encashment and LTC fare
for entitled LTC, may be paid by way of reimbursement, if any
employee opts for this in lieu of one LTC in the block year
2018-2021 subject to the following conditions:

(a) The employee spends the money of a larger sum than the
entitlement on account of LTC on actual expenditure.
(b) Cash equivalent of full leave encashment will be allowed,
this will be counted towards the number of leave encashments
on LTC available to an employee.
(c) The deemed LTC fare for this purpose is given below:
(d) The cash equivalent may be allowed if the employee
spends a sum 3 times the value of fare given above.
(e) The amount both on account of leave encashment and fare
shall be admissible if the employee spends –
(i) An amount equal to the value of leave encashment.
(ii) An amount 3 times the cash equivalent of deemed fare.

(f) The purchase items have 12% and above GST Rate with
GST registered supplier/ service provider payment with digital
mode and voucher/ receipt showing GST amount and GST
number of the seller.

(3) An amount up to 100% of leave encashment and 50% of

deemed fare may be paid as advance. The advance drawn
shall be settled based on production of voucher of purchase.
Unutilized advance recovery with penal interest.

Example - Pay of an employee Rs. 138,500 and has a family of

4 eligible for economy class air travel:
Three times deemed fare 80,000 \times 3 = 240,000