Revision of Tatkal Charges for Train Journeys to be Effective From 1st April 2013 Onwards.

Revision of Tatkal Charges for Train Journeys to be Effective From 1st April 2013 Onwards

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Railways

26-March-2013

Revision of Tatkal Charges for Train Journeys to be Effective From 1st April 2013 Onwards

            As per announcement made in the Railway Budget 2013-14, it has been decided by the Ministry of Railways to revise Tatkal charges.  These charges will be applicable for journey starting from 01.04.2013 onwards. Now, the Tatkal charges will be realized @ 10% of basic fare for reserved Second (2S) class and 30% of basic fare for all other classes subject to minimum and maximum as given below:-

Class to Travel	Minimum Tatkal Charges (in Rs.)	Maximum Tatkal Charges (in Rs.)
Reserved Second Sitting (2S)	10	15
Sleeper	90	175
AC Chair Car	100	200
AC-3 tier	250	350
AC-2 tier	300	400
Executive	300	400

Source : PIB

Continuance of family pension to mentally/physically disabled children after their marriage and withholding of 10% gratuity – Implementation of Govt. decision regarding Dual family pension

OFFICE OF THE PR. CONTROLLER OF DEFENCE ACCOUNTS (PENSIONS)

DRAUPADI GHAT, ALLAHABAD- 211014

Circular No. 106

No: GI/C/0198/Vol-V/Tech

O/o the Pr. CDA (P) Allahabad

Dated: 18/03/2013

T o,

( All Head of Department under Min of Defence )

Sub: Implementation of Govt. decision regarding Dual family pension continuance of family pension to mentally/physically disabled children after their marriage and withholding of 10% gratuity. 

Ref : This office important circular No. 58 dated 23-09-2008.

       The Govt. of India, Min of PPG & P, Deptt of P&PW vide – their OM No. 1/33/2012 – P&PW (E) dated 16-01-2013 have decided to allow continuance of family pension to mentally/physically disabled children after their marriage. Further the Govt. has also decided to allow two family pensions for military and or civil employment. DP & PW vide OM No. 20/16/1998 – P&PW (F) dated 19-02-2013 has issued clarifications regarding withholding of 10% gratuity.

2.     In order to implement the above orders/instructions, all the 4 L.P.C. cum Data Sheets for pensionary awards in r/o Defence Civilians have been redesigned to accommodate additional information of Dual family pension continuance of family pension to mentally/physically disabled children after their marriage and withholding of 10% gratuity. For this purpose following new fields have been introduced in the new data sheets.
A. For Civil Pension (Appendix É’), Civil Pension Corr (Appendix ‘F’), Civil family pension (Appendix ‘G’) and Civil family pension Corr ( Appendix ‘H’).

SL No.	FIELD NAME	NATURE OF  FIELD	FIELD  LENGTH
1	DUAL F. P. ( D/ S )	ALPHABETIC	1
2	GTY WITHHELD (Y/N)	ALPHABETIC	1

B. FIELD OF DISABLED CHILD IN F. P. (APPEX. G) & FP CORR (APPX. H) data sheets.

3.

WHETHER DISABLED CHILD MARRIED (Y/N)

ALPHABETIC

1

3. Fieldwise instructions for filling up new fields of data sheets are as under:-

(i). GTY WITHHELD (Y/N)-If any ‘Government dues’ on a/c of Government accommodation are outstanding then in this column Ý’should be filled otherwise it should be filled with ‘N’.

If ‘N’ is required to be filled in the revised data sheet i.e. in case Retirement/death gratuity is not to be withheld for the purpose of recovery of outstanding Government dues pertaining to Government accommodation, No demand certificate in this regard may be furnished along with data sheet. A specimen of certificate is enclosed.

(ii). DUAL F. P. (D/S)- In the dual family pension case, the code ’D’ should be filled in this field otherwise the code ’S’ should be filled in this field. ‘D’denotes for Double and ‘S’ for single.

Where government employee died after retirement but before 24/09/2012, the Dual family pension will not be notified/processed through Civil pension Data Sheets. Such cases will be processed through Civil F. P. Data sheets. Where employee retired before 24/09/2012, before processing of Dual F. P. case through civil pension Data sheets it may be ensured that the individual was alive on 23/09/2012.

(iii). WHETHER DISABLED CHILD MARRIED (Y/N) - If the disabled child married the code Ý’ should be filled in this field otherwise it should be filled with ‘N’. 

Further, new code for the column of Medical Category of data sheets for civil F. P. ( Appendix ‘G’& ‘H’) has been allotted. Modified codes of Medical Category are as under:

FOR CODES

UNMARRIED DISABLED CHILD (FOR LIFE) —- H

MARRIED DISABLED CHILD (FOR LIFE) —- M

UNMARRIED/WIDOWED/DIVORCED DAUGHTER —– F

(FOR LIFE)

4. In this connection 5 sets of each of data sheet along with instructions are forwarded here with for onward transmission of the same to the lower formation/unit/HOO under your control. The unit/formation declared as HOO may be instructed to initiate the data sheets along with supporting documents as per the revised procedure. No case on the old Data-Sheets will be accepted after 30-04-2013.

The receipt of this communication may please be acknowledged.

Sd/-

( S. B. Mathdevaru )

Dy. CDA (P)