TA Travelling Allowance Rules in AP & TS: IN PRC-2010:
i) The employees drawing pay in the scale of pay of Rs.13660‐38570 and above are eligible to travel by train in 1st class as per rule 27 (1) (a) of T.A. rules.
ii) All other employees are eligible to travel by second class.
iii) A concession was allowed to the officers who are eligible to travel in 1st class by train, to travel by A.C. II-tier/ A.C. III-tier/ A.C. chair car while on official tour as per note (2) of the 27 (1) (a) of T.A. rule.
iv)The employees who are eligible to travel by second class are also permitted to travel by sleeper class while on tour as per sub-rule (2) of the 27 (1) (a) of T.A. rule.
v) Wherever I‐class is available in the train the employees who are eligible to travel by I‐class may travel either in I‐ class or in A.C. II tier/ A.C. III tier/ A.C. Chair Car. If there is no I‐class in the train they may travel in A.C. II tier/ A.C. III tier/ A.C. Chair Car. The employees who are eligible to travel by II Class may also travel by sleeper class.
vi) These eligibilities are applicable in the case of journeys to be performed either on tour or on transfer or in the case of journeys connected with L.T.C.
IN PRC-2015:
i) The Commission recommends, the eligibility to travel by 1st class to the Officers in the revised scale of pay of Rs.2894078910, corresponding to the existing scale of Rs.14860 – 39540
ii) Wherever I‐class is available in the train the employees who are eligible to travel by I‐class may travel either in I‐ class or in A.C. II-tier/ A.C. III-tier/ A.C. Chair Car. If there is no I‐class on the train they may travel in A.C. II-tier/ A.C. III-tier/ A.C. Chair Car.
iii) Wherever I‐class is available in the train the employees who are eligible to travel by I‐class may travel either in I‐ class or in A.C. II-tier/ A.C. III-tier/ A.C. Chair Car. If there is no I‐class on the train they may travel in A.C. II-tier/ A.C. III-tier/ A.C. Chair Car. The employees who are eligible to travel by II Class may also travel by sleeper class.
iv) These eligibilities are applicable in the case of journeys to be performed either on tour or on transfer or in the case of journeys connected with L.T.C.
v)The Commission endorses reimbursement of the service charges wherever they actually incurred and on production of proof of incurring of the expenses.
NOTE:
a) INDIAN RAILWAYS have introduced several types of express trains viz. Super Fast, Sampark Kranti, Rajadhani, Jana Sathabdi etc.
b) Travel by these trains is costlier than the travel by ordinary express trains. It is therefore necessary to permit the employees to travel by those expresses also.
c) The Commission endorses to permit the employees to travel by all types of express trains in connection with their journeys on official tour/ transfer/ L.T.C.
IV) TRAVEL BY A.C BUSES OF R.T.C (A.P and T.S)
(i) When a Govt. employee performs a journey by a regular public motor service between places not connected by railway but connected by regular public motor service, he is entitled to either the actual bus fare paid or the railway fare of the entitled class whichever is less.
(ii) The employees are at liberty to perform journeys by air conditioned buses also since the claim has to be restricted to the actual railway fare of the entitled class. TA Travelling Allowance Rules in AP & TS
(iii) But in cases of journeys between places not connected by railway but connected only by road the employees have to necessarily perform journey by bus only. Then the restriction of travelling by air conditioned bus arises as per the restriction contained in note to rule 23 (2) of T.A. rules referred to above.
(iv) The employees’ associations have made a fervent appeal to permit all the Govt. employees, who are eligible to travel by air/ A.C. I Class/ A.C. II Tier/ A.C. III Tier/ A.C. chair car, to travel by A.C. buses of R.T.C. also for their journeys between the places not connected by rail but connected by road. As of now, they cannot travel by A.C. Buses, thought for train travel they are eligible for A.C. Class.
(v) The Pay Revision Commission-2015 accordingly recommends that the employees belonging to GradeI and GradeII of AnnexureI of T.A. rules may be permitted to travel by A.C. buses of A.P.S.R.T.C. while on tour, irrespective of whether the place is connected by rail or not.
(vi) The employees belonging to Grade III may be permitted to travel by A.P.S.R.T.C. buses of any type, except by A.C. Buses, between the places connected by train also and claim the actual Bus charges paid for.