CHAPTER IV
GRANT OF TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE TO THOSE
WHO ARE NOT IN REGULAR GOVERNMENT SERVICE
WHO ARE NOT IN REGULAR GOVERNMENT SERVICE
111. The grant of Travelling Allowance and Daily Allowance to non-official members of Committees, Boards, Councils, etc. will be regulated as follows:¬
(i) Committees, Boards, Councils, etc. constituted by Government will be classified into two-First Class and Second Class—according to their importance, jurisdiction and the over all status of the members. Whether a committee (or other body) is of the First Class or the Second Class will be specified in the orders constituting the committee.
(ii) Non-officials (including retired officials) serving in First Class Committees, Boards, etc., will be allowed Travelling Allowance and daily allowance at the rates admissible to First Grade Officers .
(iii) Non-officials (including retired officials) serving in Second Class Committees, Boards, etc., will be allowed Travelling Allowance and daily allowance at the rates admissible to Second Grade Officers drawing a pay of more than † 1500 per mensem.
(iv) The Travelling Allowance admissible to Members of the Legislative Assembly serving in any committee (or other body) will, however, be regulated by the provisions of the Payment of Salaries and Allowances Act.
(v) Members of Parliament serving in such committee (or other body) will be allowed Travelling Allowance and daily allowance at the rates admissible to M.L.As. subject to the condition that in respect of railway journeys they will be allowed only the incidental expenses, since they are in possession of free railway pass.
(vi) The Travelling Allowance Rules in the Kerala Service Rules applicable to First and Second Grade Officers of Government will apply to the non-official members of First and Second Class committees respectively. *Member of a First class Committee will however be allowed mileage for road journeys between places connected by railway, if any public interest is served by such road journeys.
Note.-
Non-official members, other than Members of the Legislative Assembly, serving on First and Second Class Committees, may be paid per day of attendance at the meetings of the committees at places within a radius of eight kilometres from their residence, sitting fees to cover out of pocket expenses at the rate equal to the amount of Daily Allowance admissible for halts at the station.
112. The following principles should be observed in granting Travelling Allowances to witnesses, who are not officers but are summoned to give evidence in a case in which the conduct of an officer is the subject of a departmental enquiry held by officers serving directly under the Government:¬
(1) Travelling Allowance will be paid only in respect of witnesses whose evidence is considered to be of material value by the officer conducting the enquiry.(2) Such allowances may be paid to witnesses summoned on behalf of the officer whose conduct is the subject of a departmental enquiry in the event of the officer concerned clearing himself.
(3) In exceptional cases the officer conducting the enquiry may, for reasons to be recorded, recommend to the Government that the principles laid down above be departed from owing to special reasons and it is for the Government to accept or reject the recommendation.
112 A. *The rates of Travelling Allowance and batta in the case of those coming under Rule 112 will be the rates allowable from time to time to non-official witnesses summoned by criminal courts, the discretion in the matter of classification of such witnesses for the purpose being vested with the concerned authority conducting the enquiry.
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