The Department of Personnel and Training is in receipt of various references with respect to the procedural challenges looked by the Government workers in application and settlement of the LTC claims. In some cases, the Government workers guarantee that inability to take after the right methodology was by virtue of an absence of information of the standards/directions. It is asserted that now and again, handling of LTC claims takes unduly prolonged stretch of time, especially when the worker and the authorizing specialists are situated at various stations.

To expel these bottlenecks, it has been chosen to streamline the methodology of utilization and make the technique of handling of LTC claims time bound. The accompanying time-limits might be taken after while handling the LTC applications/cases of the Government hirelings.

S.No.
Course of action
Time limit

1.
Leave Sanction
5 working day + 3 working days

2.
Sanction of LTC advance/ Leave encashment
5 working day + 3 working days

3.
Time taken by Administration for verification of LTC claim after the LTC bill is submitted by the Government employee for settlement.
10 working days + 3 working days

4.
Time taken by DDO
5 working days + 3 Iworking days

5.
Time taken by PAO
15 working days + 3 working days

(a) Additional 3 days transit•time might be permitted in situations where the place of posting of the Government workers is far from their Headquarters, The Government representative may continue on LTC after activity on S.No.l.

(b) Efforts ought to be made to decrease the length of preparing of LTC applications/claims at the soonest. The most extreme time breaking point ought to be entirely clung to and non - compliance of time farthest point ought to be adequately explained.

Under CC• (LTC) Rules, the Government workers are required to advise their Controlling Office before the journey(s) on LTC to be embraced. It has now been chosen that the Leave Sanctioning Authority might get a self-confirmation from the worker regarding I the proposed LTC travel. The proforma for self-affirmation has been attached with O.M.

In addition to the above, it has been chosen that at whatever point a Government worker applies for LTC, he/she ought to be furnished with a duplicate of the rules (encased) which needs to be taken after while profiting LTC.

Employees may be urged to share intriguing bits of knowledge and pictures, assuming any, of the goal he/she went by while benefiting LTC in a proper discussion.

Proforma for self-certification and Guidelines

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