APPEAR BEFORE A MEDICAL BOARD
S.R. 155-A. Deleted S.R. 155-B Deleted S.R. 156 Deleted S.R. 156-A Deleted
Journey to obtain Medical Certificate
S.R. 157. If a Government servant, being stationed where there is no medical officer of Government, is required to obtain a medical certificate from a Medical Officer of Government, he may draw traveling allowance for the journey undertaken to obtain that certificate.
Note 1 – Traveling allowance is admissible for a journey to obtain a medical certificate in support of an application for an original grant of leave but not for an extension of leave.
Note 2. – A medical officer of Government who considers that a Government servant on whom it is his duty to attend professionally should leave his station to obtain a medical certificate for proceedings on leave, and that it is unsafe for him to travel unattended, may, if he does not himself accompany him, arrange for an attendant to do so and the attendant,
(a) If a Government servant, shall be deemed to have been traveling on duty and may draw traveling allowance for the outward and return journeys as for a journey on tour, and
(b) If not a Government servant, may draw actual expenses. When the medical officer’s opinion as to the necessity for the journey and for an attendant during it cannot be obtained before its commencement, a certificate from him that the journey with an attendant was necessary is sufficient for the purpose.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S ORDERS
(1) No T.A. for obtaining fitness certificate. – Traveling allowance should not be paid to a Government servant for journeys performed by him to appear a medical committee for obtaining a certificate of fitness to return to duty.
[G.I., F.D., No. 7 (35), R.I./34, dated the 21st May, 1935 and G.I., M.F., U.O. No. 4917-E. IV (B)/65, dated the 13th January, 1965, to the A.G., P. & T., Shimla.]
(2) No. T.A. for procuring health certificate. – Traveling allowance is not admissible for a journey undertaken to procure health certificate on first appointment to Government service.
[G.I., F.D., No. 7871-P, dated the 26th December, 1903, page 128 of Posts and
Telegraphs Supplement to C.S.R. and G.I., M.F., U.O. No. 4917-E. IV (B)/65, dated the 13th January, 1965.]
S.R. 157-A. If a Government servant, having obtained a medical certificate in support of an application for an original grant of leave, is required to appear before a medical board, or to appear before a nominated medical officer of Government for further opinion as to the necessity for the leave recommended in that certificate, may draw traveling allowance for the journey undertaken to obtain that opinion.
Note:- Traveling allowance is not admissible for a journey to obtain a second medical opinion in support of an application for an extension of leave.
AUDIT INSTRUCTION
Rules 157 and 157-A of the Supplementary Rules provide that a Government servant may draw traveling allowance for the journey undertaken by him to obtain a medical certificate or a further opinion as to the necessity for the leave recommended in the medical certificate, for an original grant of leave. Such a Government servant, if he undertakes more than one journey for the purpose, may draw traveling allowance for the second and subsequent journey also, if any, provided that he produces a certificate from the medical officer concerned or the medical board, that he was required to undertake such a journey or
journeys at the behest of that authority.
[Para. 21-A, Section II of Manual of Audit Instructions (Reprint).]
Previous permission necessary if obtainable.
S.R. 158. The journeys contemplated by Rule 157 should not be undertaken without the previous permission of the controlling officer, if such permission can be obtained without risk to the Government servant requiring medical advice.
S.R. 158-A. Deleted S.R. 159. Deleted.
Journey to appear before a medical board preliminary to retirement.
S.R. 160. (a) A Government servant who is directed by his official superior, in the interests of the public service, to apply for an invalid pension may, if he be required to make a journey in order to appear before a medical board, draw his actual traveling expenses, subject to a maximum of the amount of traveling allowance calculated for the journey. If it be necessary for him to return to his headquarters after appearing before the medical board, he may draw his actual expenses subject to the same maximum. In both cases, his traveling allowance bill must be supported by a certificate that he was directed to apply for an invalid pension in the interest of the public service and that he did not voluntarily ask to retire.
(b) A Competent Authority may allowance actual expenses, as limited by Clause (a) of this rule, to be drawn by a Government servant who voluntarily applies for an invalid pension, provided that the authority is satisfied that the circumstances of the applicant are such as to justify the concession.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S ORDERS
The Heads of Circles of the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department are authorized to allow the actual cost of journey to appear before a medical board preliminary to voluntary retirement on invalid pension.
[F.A., P. & T.’s Endorsement No. M 202/33, dated the 20th June, 1933.]
Journey to appear before a Medical Board in other circumstances.
S.R. 161. Except as provided in Rules 157-A and 160, no traveling allowance is admissible for a journey undertaken in order to appear before a Medical Board.
Rates of traveling allowance under this section.
S.R. 162. Traveling allowance under Rules 157, 157-A and 160 (a) should be calculated as for a journey on tour, but no allowance may be drawn for halts on the journeys.
allowance under the various Medical Attendance Rules and the CGH Scheme, See Appendix-4.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA’S ORDERS
(1) No traveling allowance for preliminary medical examination journey. – Since the preliminary medical examination of the volunteers would be done by the Recruiting Officers while they go on tour, it has been decided that no traveling allowance would be granted to the volunteers for field service who used to be permitted to draw traveling allowance heretofore for visiting Recruiting Offices and making journeys in connection with preliminary medical examination.
(2) Temporary Commission in the Army Postal Service. – It has been decided to grant traveling allowance under SR 162 to P & T Officers for journeys from their headquarters station to the nearest hospital and back to appear before a Medical Board for the grant of Temporary Commission in the Army Postal Service.
The expenditure will be initially paid by the P & T Department and debit therefore raised against the Controller of Defence Accounts (Officers), Pune, for adjustment under Main Head 4-A of the Defence Service Estimates.
[G.I., M.D., Letter No. 45461/QPostal/262-S/D (Mov.), dated the 20th April, 1961.]
(3) In the case of medical examination ordered under CS (Medical Examination) Rules :- The entire expenditure for medical examination conducted at the instance of the employing department to ascertain whether a Government servant is fit for continuance in service or not shall be borne by the Government. This will include traveling allowance as on tour with halting allowance where the medical examination is carried out a station other than the headquarters of the Government servant concerned and also reimbursement of fee charged, if any, for such examination. The expenditure incurred in assembling the Review Board shall also be borne by the Government, provided that the Government servant shall be required to pay a prescribed fee which shall be refunded if the Government servant is not retired or his services are not terminated as recommended by the examining authority.
[G.I., M.H.A., O.M. No. 38/11/54-Estt. (A), dated the 28th December, 1957 and the 12th September, 1957.]
(4) T.A./D.A. as on tour for journeys and halt in connection with second medical opinion – Under the provisions of SR 157 and SR 162, any employee who has been asked to proceed to some other station for second medical opinion, is allowed T.A. for the journey period only. He is not allowed any daily allowance for the period of his stay at the outstation. 2. The matter regarding payment of daily allowance for halt at the outstation has been considered in the National Council of JCM and Government have agreed to the request of the Staff side for payment of daily allowance for the period of halt at outstation, in modification of SRs 157-A and 162, subject to the following conditions:-
(i) The payment of daily allowance shall be made for a maximum period of two days, calculated as on tour.
(ii) The employees should be sent for second medical opinion only in genuine cases and particularly when the employee is habitually on leave on medical grounds.
3. These orders shall be effective from the date of issue.
[G.I., M.F., O.M. No. 19043/2/89-E. IV, dated the 30th May, 1990.]
SECTION XVIII S.R. 163. Deleted.