ROAD MILEAGE ALLOWANCE AND CONVEYANCE ALLOWANCES TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Application given for information sought under RTI act 2005 .

Kindly give the answers to the points raised hereunder and the rules thereof .

1. What are the norms and basis at which (a)conveyance allowance and (b) Road Mileage allowance is given or granted to an officials in certain capacities. Please mention PRIP , System Administrators, Marketing Executives , Inspector Posts, Asst Superintendent of PO,s etc.

2. Is there any classification based on the grade of pay or scale of pay for which certain officials come under the purview of conveyance allowance and not Road mileage allowance. Whether the rules are followed uniformly in all Circles of Postal Department.

3. Why a PRIP is given conveyance allowance whether IP/ASP/SP is/are given Road mileage allowance for the entire journeys (below and above:- 8 KM to 16 KM).

4. Can System Administrators be granted Road Mileage Allowance entirely and what are the circumstances if the same cannot be granted irrelevant of measurement of Kilometers of journey.

5. Name of Circles which were giving normal Travelling Allowances of Road Mileage to System Administrators till May 2011. Name of Circles which stopped giving after June 2011. Name of the Circle which still maintains status quo in respect of the payment of T.A bills.

6. What are the 6 CPC recommendations for conveyance allowance and Road mileage allowances.

7. Whether the Travelling Rules of 5 CPC has been superseded on the implementation of 6 CPC then which rules in FR and SR still in force which is of 5 CPC Travelling rules.

8. How does the practicality of traveling via Bus/ Boat be judged and if an office of duty from H.Q involves more than two bus to hire and lot of walking from the stop to the office of duty and reaching that office in time (say System Administrators) is the need of the hour and in public interest (urgent/very important) then will the Road Mileage allowance and travel permission for such a journey in the interest of service be given by Scooter / Motor Cycle or its still limited to conveyance allowance only.

CIC

Make penalties on officials public: CIC

The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Government to make public those cases where penalties were levied on officials, as promised by it in 2010, for not providing ration cards within the stipulated 45 days. The case relates to an RTI application seeking to know details of service level agreement announced by the Delhi Government in 2010 where it was promised that officials will be penalised at Rs 10 per day in cases where ration cards were not prepared within 45 days.
During the hearing before the transparency panel, the Delhi Government officials conceded that no penalties have been levied even though there were cases where cards were not made within 45 days.
"The main component in this promise made by the Delhi Government was that citizens would get a ration card in 45 days failing which the responsible officer would be penalised Rs 10 per day. The appellant was seeking to know if the government had implemented this promise or had made a false promise," information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi said.
Directing to publish on their websites in tabular format the cases where cards were not prepared within the time-frame and penalties levied on the officials concerned, Gandhi said if the government makes false promises this is a serious default and the citizens can not have any faith in it.
"This list must be displayed for the period starting June 2011 onwards and must be updated each month before 15th of the following month. PIOs of all zones will send the compliance report to the Commission before 15 July 2011," he directed.

RTI ACT 2005

N0.F. 1/5/2011 -IR
Government of lndia
Ministry of Personnel, PG & Pension
Department of Personnel & Training
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North Block, New Delhi
Dated April 26,2011

1. The Chief Secretaries of all States/UTs (except J&K)
2. The Registrars of all High Courts
3. The Registrar of the Supreme Court

Subject:- Harmonization of fee payable under the Right to lnformation Act. 2005.

Sir,

Sections 27 and 28 of the Right to lnformation Act, 2005 empower the appropriate Governments and the Competent Authorities to make rules to prescribe,inter-alia, the fees payable under the Act. In exercise of the powers. the Central Government, State Governments, High Courts etc. have notified rules. It has been observed that the fee prescribed by different appropriate Governments/Competent Authorities is at great variance.

2. The 2nd Administrative Reforms Commission has, in this regard recommended that the States should frame Rules regarding application fee in harmony with the Central Rules and ensure that the fee should not become a disincentive for using the right to information.

3. All the States/Competent Authorities are, therefore, requested to kindly review their Fee Rules and to prescribe fee in consonance with the fee prescribed by the Government of lndia. A copy of the Right to lnformation (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005 notified by the Government of lndia is enclosed for ready reference.

4. Kindly inform us of the action taken in this regard.

rs fait
(K.G. Verma)
Director
Tel. 23092158