A proposal to provide Leave Travel Concession
(LTC) to Government employees to visit some SAARC countries is in its initial
stage of consideration. The details are yet to be finalized.
The purpose behind the proposal is to enhance
people-to-people contact and bilateral ties in the SAARC region through
increase in tourism in the region.
As per the Government’s order dated
26.09.2014, the Government has extended the facility of conversion of home town
LTC to visit the states in the North East Region, Jammu & Kashmir and the
UT of Andaman & Nicobar Islands for a period of two years up to 25.09.2016.
This facility was first introduced in the year 2008.
Presently, no other proposal is under
consideration for including more places under the conversion of Home Town LTC
to anywhere in the country.
This was stated by the Minister of State for
Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in Prime
Minister’s office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri
M. Raja Mohan Reddy in the Lok Sabha today
