Rail travel facilities available to Members of Parliament, their spouse and companions

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Rail travel facilities available to Members of Parliament, their spouse and companions revised entitlements of rail travel admissible as on date to Members of Parliament are

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Bharat Sarkar)
MINISTRY OF RAIL WAYS (Rail Mantralya)
(RAILWAY BOARD)
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No.201O/TG-I/20/P/MPs
New Delhi, dated \~ .11.2010
Chief Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways.
MD/CRIS, Chankayapuri, New Delhi.
(COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR No. 54 OF 2010)
Sub:
Rail travel facilities available to Members of Parliament, their
spouse and companions.
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs have notified revised entitlement of
Hon'ble Members of Parliament vide Gazette Notification No. 37 of 2010
dated 22.09.2010. The revised entitlement of Members of Parliarilent to
travel
by
rail has
been
notified
by
Establishment
Directorate
vide
No. E (W) 201O/PS5-7/2 dated 11.11.2010, a copy of which is enclosed.
2.
CRIS will make necessary modifications required, if any, in the
software and notify the date of effect to all zonal Railways as well as this
office.
.
3.
Necessary action may be taken to send intimation to all concerned.
DA: As above.
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( SanjayM~ocha)
Dy. Director Traffic Commercial (G)-II
Railway Board
Copy to:
i. General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
ii.
CCMlPMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways.
iii. MD/IRCTC, Bank of Baroda Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi.
iv.
EDV (T), EDFC, DF(C), OSD/TC, F(C) & V (SS) branches of Railway Board.
v.
Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial
Railway Staff
College, Vadodara.
vi.
The
Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central Railway/Bhusaval,
Eastern
Railway Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE Railway, Muzaffarpur, NF
Railway, Alipurduar, Southern Railway, Trichy, SE Railway, Sini, Western
Railway, Udaipur.
vii.
General
Secretary, National
Federation of
Indian
Railwaymen
(NFIR),
3,
Chelmsford Road, New Delhi.
viii.
General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi.
ix.
Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room
No.365-A, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.
x.
Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room
No.268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.
xi.
Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No.549, Rail Bhawan, New
Delhi.
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No.E(W)20 1O/PS 5-7/2
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.11.2010
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All'Indian
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Sub: Rail travel facilities available to Members of Parliament,
their
spouse and companions.
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.
The Members of Parliament are provided rail travel facilities as per provisions
of "The Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1'54"
as
amended from time to time.
Based on the provisions of aforesaid Act, rail travel
entitlements of Members of Parliament were last circulated in terms of Railway
Board's letter No.E(W)95/PS 5-7/12,dated 14.07.2000. Recently, Government has
notified
"The
Salary, Allowances: and
Pension
of
Members, of
Parliament.
(Amendment) Act, 2010 (No.37 of 2010) in terms of Gazette Notification dated
22.09.2010 so as to revise the entitlements of Members of Parliament. Accordingly,
revised entitlements of rail travel admissible as on date to Members of Parliament are
as indicated below:
i)
Free travel in First Class Air-Conditioned or Executive Class in any train
with the spouse, if any, from any place in'India to .anyother place in India.
ii) Free
Air-Conditioned
two-tier
accommodation
for
one
person
to
accomp~y the Member.
iii) A Member having no spouse has been allowed to take one person with
him in place of spouse in AC-Ist Class/Executive Class in rail journey
along with the-companion already allow~din AC-2 tier.
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iv) The spouse of a Member of Parliament shall be entitled to travel by
railway in First Class Air-Conditioned or Executive Class in any train
from the' usual place to residence of the Member to Delhi and back any
number of times.
When Parliament is in session such journey by th

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