No. NDNGSA/CE/Cr-6/2016 Date:
30/03/2016
The DGOF & Chairman,
Ordnance Factory Board,
10-A, S. K. Bose Road, Kolkata
Kind Attn: Shri A. S. Bhatnagar, Dir/NG
Sub: Recovery against LTC claim
Ref: (i) Dopt F. No.
31011/412007-Estt.(A) Dtd. 20/04/2010
(ii) Dopt F. No. 31011/3/2015-Estt.(A-IV) Dtd. 01/04/2015
Respected Sir,
I have been
directed by the Central Executive committee of NDNGS Association to bring the
following facts to your kind notice and favourable action please.
1. The
Union Government has extended LTC facilities in relaxation of CCS (LTC) Rules-1988
to travel by air to North East Region (Guwahati, Gangtok), Srinagar and Andaman
& Nicobar Islands to develop tourism. A good mass of employees from OFB organization
had availed this facility from the year 2008 positively. Whereas, at this late
stage, Test Audit group has declared the LTC final claims as inadmissible, as
the LTC air travels were proceeded contrary to the provisions of Min.of Finance
OM.No.19024/1/2009/E.IV Dated-16.09.2010. Accordingly, letter has been issued
to Chargeman and JWMs in some Ordnance factories, to remit the total amount
with penal interest.
2. Detailed
instruction and procedure to be followed have been issued in last year vides
Dopt order cited under reference (ii). Even though in para 3 of this Dopt
order, Govt himself pointed out the system failure by quoting “At the same time it has been noticed
that administrative authorities have also shown laxity and due to diligence on
their part could have prevented such situations from arising.”
3. Further, it is
to be noted that, the LTC applicants were even availed the advance amount only after due verification of the
tickets by the concerned authorities, simultaneously if the Air Tickets were rejected prior to the
release of advances, the individuals would have cancelled their LTC
journey. It is a very transparent fact that, the LTC journeys were preceded
through Air India only, boarding passes submitted may be verified in this regard.
After a lapse of more than 3 years, the test audit group has declared the
claims inadmissible which was settled and passed by PC of A (Fys) after
rigorous scrutiny of claims. This move is created lot of unrest and panic
situation among the Govt. servant.
4. MoD vide ID No. 11/1/2013-D(Civ-II) dtd.
24/07/2015 has taken up the matter with Dopt. for a decision on the LTC claim
submitted by the defence civilian employee where the air ticket have not been
purchased in accordance with the Govt. instruction due to lack of awareness. In
this regard MoD itself asked for the details of such cases from the OFB with
suitable comments to forward dopt for consideration of one time relaxation. In
the same line, OFB vide Instruction No. 612/A/A(Pt. II) dtd.06/08/2015 has asked
to factories and matter is between MoD
and Dopt for
consideration.
5. Honorable
CAT, Jabalpur in his decision against the recovery in LTC had pointed out the
slackness of administration and directed to consider LTC claim of the applicant
by relaxing the condition regarding purchase of ticket from the airline or
authorized agencies mentioned in Min. of Finance OM.No.19024/1/2009/E.IV
Dated-16.09.2010.
6. Apart
from the above, some concerned authority is following the procedure that, not
to sanction the LTC advance amount unless air ticket is produced.
Salaried/Waged employees were not in a position to bear the huge advance amount
need for ticket bookings. It is requested that concerned authority may ask to
give advance amount to make enable to Govt. servant to purchase air ticket.
Considering the merit of this
appeal, your good office is requested not to re-open the settled cases since
the OFB/MoD itself is seeking one time relaxation for their employee and
requested to Dopt for a favorable decision.
Submitted
for kind consideration and favorable action please.
(Kamlesh
Kumar)
General
Secretary/CE
Copy:
The Sr. General Manager/General Manager
- for kind information with
request to stop the recovery if any till Dopt’s final outcome.
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