(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 officer.
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.
1.4 Scope:
The Leave Travel Concession will cover the Government servant himself and his family.
Family means:-
i) the Government servant’s wife or husband, as the case may be, and two surviving
unmarried children or stepchildren wholly dependent on the Government servant,
irrespective of whether they are residing with the Government servant or not;
ii) married daughters who have been divorced, abandoned or separated from their
husbands and widowed daughters and are residing with the Government servant
and are wholly dependent on the Government servant;
iii) parents and/or stepmother and stepfather wholly dependent on the Government
servant irrespective of whether they are residing with Government Servant or not;
iv) unmarried minor brothers as well as unmarried, divorced, abandoned, separated
from their husbands or widowed sisters residing with and wholly dependent on
the Government servant, provided their parents are either not alive or are
themselves wholly dependent on the Government servant.
Explanations:
1. The restriction of the concession to only two surviving children or stepchildren shall not be
applicable in respect of (i) those employees who already have more than two children prior to
the coming into force of this restriction, i.e., 20.10.1997; (ii) children born within one year of
the coming into force of this restrict; (iii) where the number of children exceeds two as a
result of second child birth resulting in multiple births.
2. Not more than one wife is included in the term “Family” for the purpose of these Rules.
However, if a Government servant has two legally wedded wives and the second marriage is
with the specific permission of the Government, the second wife shall also be included in the
definition of “Family”.
3. Though it is not necessary for the spouse and children to reside with the Government
servant so as to be eligible for the Leave Travel Concession, the concession in their cases
shall, however, be restricted to the actual distance travelled or the distance between the
headquarters/ place of posting of the Government servant and the home town/ place of visit,
whichever is less.
4. Children of divorced, abandoned, separated from their husbands or widowed sisters are not
included in the term “Family”.
5. A member of the family whose income from all sources, including pension, temporary
increase in pension but excluding dearness relief on pension or stipend, etc. does not exceed
Rs.3,500*/- p.m. is deemed to be wholly dependent on the Government servant.
[*As per 7 CPC it may be Rs. 9,000/-]