LTC Entitlements of new recruit employees in Central Government services

LTC Entitlements of new recruit employees in Central Government services…

We have some important information collected from various sources for the employees who are newly appointed in Central Government services. The clairifications are given as the type of ‘question and answers’ for easy understanding of CCS LTC Rules…

Question 1. What are the LTC entitlements of a Fresh Recruit?
Answer: Fresh recruits to the Central Government are allowed to travel to their home town along with their families on three occasions in a block of four years and to any place in India on the fourth occasion. This facility shall be available to the fresh recruits only for the first two blocks of four years applicable after joining the Government for the first time.

Question 2. How are the two blocks of four years applied to the Fresh Recruit?
Answer: The first two blocks of four years shall apply with reference to the initial date of joining the Government service even though the Govt. servant may change the job within the Government subsequently. However, as per Rule 7 of CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988, the LTC entitlement of a fresh recruit will be calculated calendar year wise with effect from the date of completion of one year of regular service.

Question 3. Are the LTC blocks of four years in respect of Fresh Recruits same as the regular blocks like 2010-13, 2014-17?
Answer: No. The first two blocks of four years of fresh recruits will be personal to them.
On completion of eight years of LTC, they will be treated at par with other regular LTC beneficiaries as per the prescribed blocks like 2014-17, 2018-21 etc.

Question 4. If a fresh recruit does not avail LTC facility in a particular year, can he/ she avail it in the next year?
No. Carryover of LTC to the next year is not allowed in case of a fresh recruit as he is already entitled to every year LTC. Hence, if a fresh recruit does not avail of the LTC facility in any year, his LTC will deem to have lapsed with the end of that year.

Question 5. How will the LTC entitlements of a Fresh Recruit be exercised after the completion of eight years of service?
Answer: (a) After the completion of eight years of service, when the next LTC cycle of fresh recruit coincides with the beginning of the second two year block (eg. 2016-17) of
the running four year block (2014-17), he will be eligible only for ‘Home Town’ LTC if he/she has availed ‘Any Place in India’ LTC in the eighth year. Cases, where the new LTC cycle of fresh recruit coincides with the second year of the running two year block (ex. 2017 of 2016-2017), he will not be eligible for LTC in that year. Refer illustrations 1 & 3 for further explanation. (b) At the end of the eighth year of LTC, when the new LTC cycle of a fresh recruit coincides with the beginning of a regular four year block, his entitlement in the regular block will be exercised as per the usual LTC Rules. Refer illustration 2.

Question 6. How will the LTC entitlement computed in case of a fresh recruit joining the service on 30 December of any year?
Answer: A fresh recruit who joins the Government service on 31 51December of any year, will be eligible for LTC w.e.f. 31 stDecember of next year. Since, 31 51December is the last date of a calendar year, his first occasion of LTC ends with that year.
Hence, he may avail his first Home Town LTC on the last day of that year. From next year onwards he would be eligible for the remaining seven LTCs. Refer illustration 3.

Question 7. How will the entitlements of a fresh recruit be computed who has joined the Govt. service before 01.09.2008?
Answer: A fresh recruit who has joined Government service before 01.09.2008 (i.e before the introduction of this scheme) and has not completed his first eight years of service as on 01.09.2008 will be eligible for this concession for the remaining time-period till the completion of first eight years of his/ her service. Refer illustration 4.

Question 8. Can a fresh recruit whose Home Town and Headquarters are same, avail LTC to Home Town?
Answer: No. A fresh recruit whose Home Town and Headquarters are same, cannot avail LTC to Home Town. He may avail LTC to any place in India on the fourth and eighth occasion only. As per Rule 8 of CCS (LTC) Rules, 1988, LTC to Home Town shall be admissible irrespective of the distance between the Headquarters of the Govt. servant and his Home Town which implies that Headquarters and Home Town should be at different places.

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(B. Bandyopadhyay)
Under Secretary to the Govt. of India

Illustrations

Illustration 1:
An employee joins the Government service on I s’ September, 2008. As per the CCS (LTC) Rules, he will become eligible for LTC with effect from 1 st September, 2009 (i.e. after the completion of one year of regular service). His entitlement for Home Town / All India would be as under:

Year of LTC Type of LTC LTC Occasion
01.09.2008 – 31.08.2009 Nil
01.09.2009 – 31.12.2009 Home Town 1st (First Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2010 – 31.12.2010 Home Town 2nd (First Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011 Home Town 3rd (First Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2012 – 31.12.2012 Any Place in India 4th (First Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2013 Home Town 5th (Second Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2014 – 31.12.2014 (Running Block) Home Town 6th (Second Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2015 – 31.12.2015 (Running Block) Home Town 7th (Second Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2016 – 31.12.2016 (Running Block) Any Place in India 8th (Second Block of 4 Years)
01.01.2017 – 31.12.2017 (Running Block) Nil
01.01.2018 – 31.12.2021 New LTC Block  

Explanations:
(i) After the completion of the first eight years, when the fresh recruit gets into the middle of the running regular block of four calendar years (ex. 2014-2017) where the new LTC cycle of fresh recruit coincides with the second year of the running two year block (ex. 2017 of 2016-2017), he will not be eligible for LTC in that year (i.e. 2017).

(ii) It can be seen from above that LTC entitlement for a fresh recruit is calculated calendar year wise with effect from the date of completion of one year of regular service.

Illustration 2:
An employee joins the Government service on 1″ January, 2009. As per the CCS (LTC) Rules, he will become eligible for LTC with effect from 1″ January, 2010 (i.e. after the completion of one year of regular service). His entitlement for Home Town / All India LTC would be as under:

Year of LTC Type of LTC LTC Occasion
01.01.2009 – 31.12.2009 Nil
01.01.2010 – 31.12.2010 Home Town 1st
01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011 Home Town 2nd
01.01.2012 – 31.12.2012 Home Town 3rd
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2013 Any Place in India 4th
01.01.2014 – 31.12.2014 Home Town 5th
01.01.2015 – 31.12.2015 Home Town 6th
01.01.2016 – 31.12.2016 Home Town 7th
01.01.2017 – 31.12.2017 Any Place in India 8th
01.01.2018 – 31.12.2021 New LTC Block  

Explanations:
(i) At the end of the eighth year of LTC, when the new LTC cycle of a fresh recruit coincides with the beginning of a regular four year block, his entitlement in the regular block will be exercised as per the usual LTC Rules.

Illustration 3:
An employee joins the Government service on 31 51 December, 2011. As per the CCS (LTC) Rules, he will become eligible for LTC with effect from 31 stDecember, 2012 (i.e. after completion of one year of regular service). His entitlement for Home Town / All India LTC would be as under:

Year of LTC Type of LTC LTC Occasion
31.01.2011 – 30.12.2012 Nil
31.12.2012 Home Town 1st
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2013 Home Town 2nd
01.01.2014 – 31.12.2014 Home Town 3rd
01.01.2015 – 31.12.2015 Any Place in India 4th
01.01.2016 – 31.12.2016 Home Town 5th
01.01.2017 – 31.12.2017 Home Town 6th
01.01.2018 – 31.12.2018 Home Town 7th (Running Block – 2018-21)
01.01.2019 – 31.12.2019 Any Place in India 8th (Running Block – 2018-21)
01.01.2020 – 31.12.2021 Home Town (Running Block – 2018-21)
01.01.2022 – 31.12.2025 New LTC Block  

Explanations: A fresh recruit who joins on 31 st December of any year, will be eligible for LTC w.e.f. 31st December of next year. Since, 31 5t December is the last date of that calendar year, his first occasion of LTC ends with that year. Hence, he may avail his first home town LTC on that day only (eg. 31 51 December, 2012). Froth next year onwards he will be eligible for the remaining seven LTCs.

After the completion of eight years of service, when the next LTC cycle of fresh recruit coincides with the beginning of the second two year block (eg. 2020-21) of the running four year block (2018-21), he will be eligible only for the ‘Home Town’ LTC in that block if he has av«.Ied of ‘Any Place in India’ LTC in the eighth year. In case, the fresh recruit forgoes his eighth year LTC, then he has a choice to avail either ‘Any Place in India’ or ‘Home Town’ LTC in the following two year block (i.e. in 2020-21).

Illustration 4:
An employee joins the Government service on 10 thMay, 2006. As per the CCS (LTC) Rules, he will become eligible for LTC with effect from 10 thMay, 2007 (i.e. after the completion of one year of regular service). His entitlement for Home Town / All India LTC would be as under:

Year of LTC Type of LTC LTC Occasion
10.05.2006 – 09.05.2007 Nil
10.05.2007 – 31.12.2007 Home Town/ Any Place in India 1st
01.01.2008 – 31.12.2008 Home Town 2nd
01.01.2009 – 31.12.2009 Home Town 3rd
01.01.2010 – 31.12.2010 Any Place in India 4th
01.01.2011 – 31.12.2011 Home Town 5th
01.01.2012 – 31.12.2012 Home Town 6th
01.01.2013 – 31.12.2013 Home Town 7th
01.01.2014 – 31.12.2014 Any Place in India 8th
01.01.2015 – 31.12.2015 Nil

Explanation
A fresh recruit who has joined the Government service before 01.09.2008 (i.e before the introduction of this scheme) and has not completed his first eight years of service as on 01.09.2008 will be eligible for this concession for the remaining time-period till the completion of first eight years of his/ her service.

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  1. Can you clarify that an central govt. employee has joined its service in July 2007 and has availed its LTC in grace period of block year i.e. 2006-2009 in 2010. Can the employee will be permitted to avail his/her LTC as per old LTC rule or all new recruits will be only eligible as per new recruit LTC rule?

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  2. i work in mumbai custom and i live in delhi. my joining date is 27th dec 2016. i took EOL from 2nd jan 2017 to 2nd may 2017 and joined my service from 3rd may 2017. when can i avail ltc

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  3. In Illustration 4: how the next block year will be treated after 2014 when he has completed 8 years
    Because 2014 is the first year of new block year

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  4. My date of joining is 29.08.2008 and I am working in an autonomous corporation under central govt.As I was unaware of the new LTC rules, I availed all India LTC on September 2014. Now I was asked to refund the money sanctioned towards LTC. I hadn’t availed any LTC before or after 2014. Whether I can opt LTC under the normal rules as entitled to other regular Govt. employees, as per the guidelines (sl. No. 5) enclosed with office memorandum No. 31011/3/2015-Estt (A.IV) dated 11/01/2016 ( Ministry of personnel, public Grievances and Pensions), in order to avoid my refund. Kindly send me an earliest reply

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  5. Sir, An employee joined the service on 20/11/2009. Is he entitled for one year ltc -2017with family from duty place to home town.

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  6. Can I change the ltc sequence hometown, hometown, hometown, all India to hometown, all India, hometown, hometown.
    I am a newly recruited cg employee.

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