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7th CPC Recommended Transport Allowance (TPTA)

November 21, 2015 By govtstaffnews.in 1 Comment

7th CPC Recommends  Transport Allowance for three Category of Employees for Two Types of Places

Transport Allowance (TPTA) is granted to cover the expenditure involved in commuting between place of residence and place of duty.

7th CPC Recommends Transport Allowance for three Category of Employees for Two Types of Places

7th Pay commission Transport Allowance for Higher TPTA Cities (19 Cities Covered)

Incidentally, only 13 cities fall under this categorization: six in A1, viz., Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Greater Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and seven in A, viz., Ahmedabad, Surat, Nagpur, Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow and Kanpur. Recently, six more cities, viz., Patna, Kochi, Kozhikode, Indore, Coimbatore and Ghaziabad have been added to A1/A categories, making it nineteen in all.

Grade Pay 1800 to 1900 – Rs 1350+DA
Grade Pay 2000 to 4800 – Rs 3600+DA
Grade Pay 5400 and above – Rs. 7200+DA

7th Pay commission Transport Allowance for other Cities

Grade Pay 1800 to 1900 – Rs 900+DA
Grade Pay 2000 to 4800 – Rs 1800+DA
Grade Pay 5400 and above – Rs. 3600+DA

The existing rates are as under

7th-CPC-Transport-Allowance

The Commission notes that TPTA is fully DA-indexed.

The first issue to be considered is whether the rate of Transport Allowance should be the same for all places. There are arguments both for and against this view.

Proponents of the idea argue that petrol prices are almost same everywhere. Moreover, public transport system is better developed in many of the A1/A Class cities, thereby reducing the cost of commuting significantly. The argument, therefore, is that A1/A category places do not need to have a higher rate.

Opponents point out that the categorization of A1/A has been abolished for other purposes (like HRA, CCA) but retained for Transport Allowance. Incidentally, only 13 cities fall under this categorization: six in A1, viz., Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Greater Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and seven in A, viz., Ahmedabad, Surat, Nagpur, Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow and Kanpur. Recently, six more cities, viz., Patna, Kochi, Kozhikode, Indore, Coimbatore and Ghaziabad have been added to A1/A categories, making it nineteen in all. (Incidentally, vide a recent notification No. 21(2)/2015-E.II(B) dated 06.08.2015, the use of term “A1/A” has been dropped for these nineteen cities. Hence, the Commission will refer to these nineteen cities as “Higher TPTA cities.”). In all these places the commuting distances are far more than in other cities. Moreover, the public transport system is not as developed as it should be in all these places. Therefore, it is argued, the distinction should remain.

After considering both the viewpoints, the Commission is of the view that by and large the commuting distances and associated difficulties involved in Higher TPTA cities are much more compared to other places. Hence, the argument that the distinction should stay is a valid one.

The second issue is whether Transport Allowance should be the same for all personnel posted at the same place. Here the Commission feels that a question of status of employee is involved and hence, complete parity is not possible.

Regarding the optimal rate of Transport Allowance, the Commission notes that the allowance is already fully DA indexed. Therefore, since DA has already reached 119 percent and is likely to rise further before the implementation of our report, the following rates of Transport Allowance are recommended:

7th-CPC-Transport-Allowance-recommended

Officers in Pay Level 14 and higher, who are entitled to the use of official car, will ave the option to avail themselves of the existing facility or to draw the TPTA at the rate of ₹15,750+DA pm. Differently abled employees will continue to be paid at double rate, subject to a minimum of ₹2,250 plus DA

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  1. Falguni chaudhuri says

    October 28, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    It is observed that low paid employees are always deprived when ever
    new pay commission has been formed. As is these employees under PB 1and PB 2 are the real burden of the government. Employees above grade pay 1900/- will receive 3 ( three) times more TPTA than the employees under PB & PB. In 6th CPC some benefit was awarded to PB 1 & PB 2 as there was a provision when their Basic Becomes 7440/- they would get 1600/- + ( 1600x DA ) . This gave them some kind of financial help. But now the said benefit has been ceased without considering their low pay packet. I failed to understand how such decision was taken.

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