(1) Daily allowance for the entire absence from headquarters will be regulated as follows. Full daily allowance may be granted for each completed calendar day of absence reckoned from midnight to midnight. For absence from headquarters for less than 24 hours, the daily allowance will be admissible at the following rates :-
(a) if the absence does not exceed 6 hours Nil
(b) if absence exceeds 6 hours but does not exceed 12 hrs. 70%
(c) if absence exceeds 12 hrs. Full
(2) In case the period of absence from headquarters falls on two calendar days, it is reckoned as two days and daily allowance is calculated for each as above. Similarly, daily allowance for day of departure from and arrival at head-quarters will also be regulated accordingly.
(3) No daily allowance will be admissible for the period of leave including casual/earned leave availed of while on tour.
(4) The rates of daily allowance admissible will be as under :- Category/pay range In metropolitan/A-class cities At other places Lodging Boarding Lodging Boarding Chairman and Members of the Board and other employees drawing Rs.5100 and above.
Any Hotel (Actuals) 120 Actuals 105 Rs.2800 and above but less than Rs.5100 3 star Hotel (Actuals) 85 100 70 Rs.1900 and above but less than Rs. 2800 100 65 75 50 Rs.1400 and above but less than Rs.1900 80 50 60 40 Rs.1100 and above but less than Rs.1400 70 45 50 35 Below Rs.1100 60 40 40 30” [GSR 1038(E) dt. 28/10/1988]
Provided that in the case of any journey performed by an official of the Central Government, or an employee of a Corporation owned or controlled by the Central Government, in connection with the attending the meetings of the Board or of any Committee or to attend to any other business of the Board, the traveling and daily allowances admissible to him shall be payable by the Board at the rates admissible to him under the rules of the Government or the Corporation under which he is for the time being employed.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rules (1) to (4), the Chairman or any other member of the Board who is also a member of Parliament or of the Legislature of a State, shall not be entitled to any remuneration other than compensatory allowance as defined in clause (a) of section 2 of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959, or as the case may be other than the allowances, if any, which a member of the Legislature of the state may under any law for the time being in force in the state relating to the prevention of disqualification for membership of the State Legislature, receive without incurring such disqualification.
(6) If a member of the Board or an employee of the Board is treated as guest of the Board or Government or any other organization, the daily allowance shall be regulated in the manner indicated below :- Where lodging is provided fee 3/4th of daily allowance
(b) Where boarding is provided free 1/2 of daily allowance
(c) When both lodging and boarding are provided free.
1/4th of daily allowance
(7) Where the hotel bills specify only consolidated amount towards lodging and breakfast charges 10% of such consolidated amount would be deducted towards breakfast charges.