40% concession in passenger fare to Transgender Senior Citizens GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD (Commercial Circular No.74 of 2018) No.TC-II/2161/2015/SRC/Policy/3 New Delhi, dated 14.12.2018 Principal Chief Commercial Managers, All Zonal Railways. Sub:  40% concession in passenger fare to Transgender Senior Citizens whose age are 60 and above. Ref: (I) Commercial Circular No.18 of 2011 dated 13.05.2011 (ii) Commercial Circular No. of 52 of 2016 dated 29.06.2016 As per S.No.38 of IRCA Coaching Tariff No. 26 Part-I (Vol.II) concession is admissible to Men Senior Citizens of the age of 60 years and above and 58 years & above in case for Women–Senior citizens of Indian Nationality. The element of concession is 40% for Men Senior Citizens and 50% for Women Senior Citizens. 2. As an interim measure till finalization of uniform policy by Ministry of Law & Justice, it has now been decided to grant of 40% concession in passenger fare to Tr...

GUIDELINES ON AIR TRAVEL ON OFFICIAL TOURS No. 19024/2212017-E.IV Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi Dated the 19th July, 2017 Office Memorandum Subject:   Guidelines on Air Travel on Official Tours – Purchase of air ticket from authorized agent. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Departments’ O.M. No. 19024/1/2005-E.IV dated 24.03.2006, O.M. No. 19024/1/2009-E.IV dated 16.09.2010 and O.M. No. 19024/1/2012-E.IV dated 09.07.2013 regarding guidelines on Air travel. As per these guidelines, in all cases of Air Travel where the Government of India bears the cost of air passage, Air Tickets may be purchased directly from Airlines (at Booking counters/office/website of Airlines) and if needed, by utilizing the services of three Authorized Travel Agents viz. M/s Balmer Lawrie & Company Limited (BLCL), M/s Ashok Travels & Tours (ATT) and Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC). T...

Applicability of Goods and Service tax (GST) on Static Catering Services on IR GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) No. 2012/TG.III/631/2 New Delhi Dated 01.12.2017 The General Managers All Indian Railways The CMD/IRCTC New Delhi CMD/KRCL, Navi Mumbai (Commercial Circular No. 79 of 2017) Sub: Applicability of Goods and Service tax (GST) on Static Catering Services on IR. Ref: (i) Commercial Circular No. 78 of 2012 dated 21.12.2012 (ii) Commercial Circular No. 44 of 2017 dated 29.06.2017 (iii) Commercial Circular No. 48 of 2017 dated 30.06.2017 (iv) Board's letter No. 2016/AC-II/01/Misc./GST (RBS No. 164/20117) dtd 20.11.2017 (v) Board's letter no. 2017/TG-III/631/6 dated 18/09/2017. Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) vide notification No. 11/2017 - Central Tax(Rate) dated 28.06.2017 had issued GST Rate for supply of food and beverage services. Further, vide Notification no. 46/2017-Centrl Tax (Rate) dated 14.11.2017, the aforesaid notification has b...

Guidelines on Air Travel on Government Expenses - Purchase of Tickets from Authorised Agent: MHA OM Air-Travel-Government-Expenses No.19011/01/2015-Fin.II(Pt.) Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs North Block, New Delhi, Dated November 03, 2017 OFFICE-MEMORANDUM Sub: Guidelines on Air Travel on Government Expenses - Purchase of Tickets from Authorised Agent- reg. The undersigned is directed to refer to GoI 14 below SR 48-8 wherein provision has been made that in all cases of air travel, where Govt. of India bears the cost of air passage, the officials have to travel only by Air India. Further, GoI 16 below the rule stipulates for purchase of air ticket directly from Airlines (Booking Counter or website of Airlines) or by utilizing the services of the authorised agents viz. M/s. Balmer Lawrie Co., M/s Ashoka Travels & Tours and IRCTC. Department of Expenditure, M/o. Finance time and again also stressed the need of travel only by Air India and purchase of air tickets from pe...