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Central government employees who couldn t avail of LTC due to COVID lockdown, check these new rules
Accepting requests of employees, the Union govt has announced some relief measures for the benefit of those who couldn t avail of LTC due to COVID. File photo
Updated: Jan 10, 2021, 03:57 PM IST
In some relief for Centre government employees who couldn’t avail of the full benefit due to the COVID-induced lockdown in 2020, the Union government announced three new decisions in an Office Memorandum (OM) dated January 7, 2021, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Pertaining to several airlines cancelling confirm tickets owing to the lockdown, the DoPT noted that employees didn’t receive not refund amount and the airlines instead kept the booking amount in the form of ‘credit shell’, allowing passengers to travel again within a year. “This is causing undue hardships to the Government employees as the LTC advance along with penal intere