Conveyance Allowance Rules

Conveyance Allowance Rules

Conveyance Allowance Admissible

Conveyance Allowance Not Admissible 

Conveyance Allowance is allowed to the employees to compensate their expenses for the distance of travelling between the residence of Government servant and his / her place of duty (i.e; Local Travelling Expenses).

Conveyance Allowance will be admissible only for the period during which the civil servant held the post to which the conveyance allowance is attached and will not be admissible during leave or joining time.

Conveyance Allowance is not admissible during leave and joining period in the light of Rule 1.15(2) of The Punjab Travelling Allowance Rules.

Rule 1.15(2) of The Punjab Travelling Allowance Rules

Conveyance Allowance falling under Rule 1.14(ii) will be admissible only for the period during which the civil servant held the post to which the conveyance allowance is attached and will not be admissible during leave or joining time.

Rule 1.14 of The Punjab Travelling Allowance Rules

Conveyance Allowance is of two kinds: 

(i)     that sanctioned on the condition that a particular type of conveyance will be maintained by the civil servants; 

(ii)     that sanctioned without any such condition being imposed.

Officers who are availing Government vehicles including Bikes (Sanctioned / Pool) are not entitled to the facility of Conveyance Allowance. The instructions whereby Conveyance Allowance was allowed on a certificate of not using vehicle from house to office and vice versa was withdrawn.

Employees who are residing in the residential colonies situated within work premises are not entitled to the facility of Conveyance Allowance vide letter No. F.D.SR-I-9-4/86(PR)(P) dated: 15-10-2011 & 21-04-2014.

Conveyance Allowance is not admissible to the Teachers during winter or summer vacations as they belong to Vacation Department (Finance Department’s Policy letter dated: 18-08-1977).

Officers of the Vacations Department who are required to attend their official duties during vacation (or part thereof) would be entitled to draw Conveyance Allowance vide Finance Department’s Policy letter dated: 18-08-1977.

A Vacation Department is a department, or part of a department, to which regular vacations are allowed during which Government servants serving in the department are permitted to be absent from duty as per Rule 8.60 of Civil Service Rules, Vol-I (Punjab).

Rule 8.60 of Civil Service Rules, Vol-I (Punjab)

According to this rule, a competent authority may specify the departments or parts of departments which should be treated as vacation departments and the conditions in which a Government servant should be considered to have availed himself of a vacation.