(i) The hometown once declared and accepted by the controlling officer shall be treated as
final. In exceptional circumstances, the Head of the Department (HoD) or if the
Government servant itself is the HoD, the Administrative Ministry, may authorise a
change in such declaration provided that such a change shall not be made more than
once during the service of a Government servant.
[O.M. No. 43/5/57-Est.(A), dated 11.02.1958]
(ii) The current test to determine whether a place declared by a Government servant may be
accepted as his home town or not is to check whether it is the place where the Government
servant would normally reside but for his absence from such a station for service under
Government.
[O.M. No. 43/15/57-Ests.(A) dated 24.06.1958]
Declaration of place of visit under Leave Travel Concession to any place in India (Rule 6):-
When the concession to visit any place in India is proposed to be availed of by a Government servant
or any member of the family of such Government servant, the intended place of visit shall be declared by the
Government servant in advance to his controlling officer. The declared place of visit may be changed before
the commencement of the journey 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 Govt. servant. This relaxation may be made by the Administrative Ministry/Department or by
the Head of the Department, as the case may be.
Admissibility of Leave Travel Concession (Rule 7):-
(1) The Leave Travel Concession shall be admissible to persons of the categories specified in clauses (i) and
(iii) of sub-rule (3) of Rule 1 only, if they have completed one year’s continuous service under the Central
Government on the date of journey performed by him or his family, as the case may be, to avail of the
concession.
(2) The leave travel concession shall be admissible during any period of leave, including casual leave and
special casual leave.
Note:-
1(i). In the case of a Government servant serving in a vacation department, vacation will be treated as
regular leave for the purpose of this concession.
(ii). The class of railway accommodation to which a Government servant and his family will be entitled is the
class to which he is entitled under the normal rules at the time the journeys are undertaken.
(iii). The Government servants should inform the Controlling Officer before journeys for which assistance
under this scheme will be claimed are undertaken. They should also produce evidence of their having
actually performed the journey.
(iv). The authority responsible for the maintenance of the service record shall ensure that on every occasion
a Government servant proceeds on leave which is entered in that record, the fact whether or not he availed
of the travel assistance under these orders is indicated.
[O.M. No. 43/1/55-Estt.(A) –Part-II dated 11.10.1956]
2. Not admissible for journeys during the weekend holidays without any leave.
3. LTC also admissible during CCL and study leave.
[O.M. No. 13018/6/2013-Estt(L) dated 03.04.2018 and O.M. No.31011/1/88-Estt.(A) dated
30.03.1988]
