Grant of
Transport Allowance to Orthopaedically handicapped Railway Employees
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(Railway Board)
S.No.PC-VI/337
RBE No. 40/2014
No. PC-V/2014/A/TA/1
New Delhi, dated 29.04.2014
The General Manager/CAOs(R)
All Zonal Railways & PUs
(As per mailing list)
Sub:-Grant of
Transport Allowance to Orthopaedically handicapped Railway Employees.
Reference is invited to Railway Board’s
letter No. F(E) I-78/AL-7/5, dt.15.01.1980 as amended from
time to time andto say that the criteria for orthopaedically
handicapped employees to draw Transport Allowance at double the
normal rates has been reviewed by Ministry of Finance in consultation with the
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. It has been decided that in
partial modification of para-1 of Railway Board’s letter dt. 15.01.1980
referred above, Double Transport Allowance shall be
allowed to an orthopaedically Handicapped Railway employee if he
or she has a minimum of 40% permanent partial disability of either
one or both upper limbs or one or both lower limbs OR 50%permanent partial
disability of one or both upper limbs and one or both lower limbs
combined. The other conditions of Board’s letter dated 15.01.1980 for granting
Double Transport Allowance to orthopaedically handicapped Railway
employees shall remain unchanged.
2. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.
3. Hindi version is enclosed.
{Authority: MoF’s OM No.21-1/2011-E.II(B), dt. 5th August, 2013}
sd/-
(N.P.Singh)
Dy.Director, Pay Commission – V
Railway Board.
No. PC-V/2014/A/TA/1
New Delhi, dated 29.04.2014
Source: NFIR/AIRF
