Grant of Tough Location Allowance to Central Govt. Employees of Darjeeling Grant of Tough Location Allowance to Central Govt. Employees of Darjeeling "Consider grant of any kind of Special Duty Allowance/Tough Location Allowance/High Altitude Allowance as a special case" Ref: Confdn/Genl/2016-19 Dated : 14.03.2018 To The Secretary Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi - 110001 Sir, Sub:  Grant of Tough Location Allowance to Central Govt. Employees of Darjeeling. This is to bring to your kind notice that Hill Compensatory Allowance (HCA) was being paid till June 2017 to the employees of Darjeeling. Unfortunately HCA has been withdrawan from the month of July 2017 onwards after implementation of 7th CPC Allowance Committee report. However, the neighbouring state, Sikkim is still getting the Special Compensatory Allowance (SCA). It is worth mentioning that Darjeeling and Sikkim share same type of terrain, alongwith climatic conditions. It is furthe...

Grant of Tough Location Allowance to Central Govt. Employees of Darjeeling “Consider grant of any kind of Special Duty Allowance/Tough Location Allowance/High Altitude Allowance as a special case” Ref: Confdn/Genl/2016-19 Dated : 14.03.2018 To The Secretary Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi – 110001 Sir, Sub:  Grant of Tough Location Allowance to Central Govt. Employees of Darjeeling. This is to bring to your kind notice that Hill Compensatory Allowance (HCA) was being paid till June 2017 to the employees of Darjeeling. Unfortunately HCA has been withdrawan from the month of July 2017 onwards after implementation of 7th CPC Allowance Committee report. However, the neighbouring state, Sikkim is still getting the Special Compensatory Allowance (SCA). It is worth mentioning that Darjeeling and Sikkim share same type of terrain, alongwith climatic conditions. It is further to mention here that the employees of some hill areas viz; Shimla in Himachal P...