Allowances for purposes of Schedule III [Table: Sl. Nos. 12 and 13] to the Act

This is an overview of a long rule; the place descriptions for the area allowances are lengthy and are in the bare Rules.

Table Sl. No. 12 (sub-rule 1). The allowances, by whatever name called: an allowance to meet the cost of travel on tour or on transfer; a sum paid for transfer, packing and transportation of personal effects on transfer; an allowance, on tour or during a transfer journey, for ordinary daily charges of being away from the normal place of duty; an allowance for conveyance in performing duties where no free conveyance is provided; an allowance for a helper engaged for performing duties; an allowance to encourage academic, research and training pursuits in educational and research institutions; and an allowance for the purchase or maintenance of a uniform worn in performing duties.

Table Sl. No. 13 (sub-rule 2).

Allowance	Where	Exempt up to
Special Compensatory (Remote Locality) Allowance, Tough Location Allowance-I	Listed places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Nagaland and Tripura	Rs. 7,000 per month, when the exemptions at Sl. No. 4, 5 or 9 are not claimed
The same, Tough Location Allowance-II	Listed places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura	Rs. 4,500 per month, on the same condition
The same, Tough Location Allowance-III	Remaining Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, listed Sundarban areas of West Bengal, and scheduled tribal and bad climate areas where allowed by State order	Rs. 1,500 per month, on the same condition (not Sl. No. 4, 5 or 9)
Compensatory Field Area Allowance	Listed field areas	Rs. 13,500 per month
Compensatory Modified Field Area Allowance	Listed modified field areas	Rs. 8,000 per month
Allowance to an employee in a transport system for personal expenditure during duty, where no daily allowance is received	Whole of India	70% of the allowance, up to Rs. 25,000 per month
Children Education Allowance	Whole of India	Rs. 3,000 per month per child, up to two children
Allowance for hostel expenditure on a child	Whole of India	Rs. 9,000 per month per child, up to two children
Special allowance in the nature of counter-insurgency allowance to armed forces members operating away from permanent locations	Whole of India	Rs. 22,000 per month
Transport allowance for an employee who is blind, deaf and dumb, or orthopaedically handicapped with lower or upper extremity disability	Whole of India	Metro cities Rs. 15,000 plus dearness allowance; other cities Rs. 8,000 plus dearness allowance, per month
Special allowance for armed forces members in high altitude areas	Listed altitudes and areas	Rs. 4,500, Rs. 7,000 or Rs. 30,000 per month, depending on altitude and location
Underground allowance for an employee in uncongenial underground mines	Whole of India	15% of basic pay
Special compensatory highly active field area allowance to armed forces members	Whole of India	Rs. 22,000 per month
Island (duty) allowance or Island Special Duty Allowance to armed forces members	Listed island areas	10%, 16% or 20% of basic pay, by area
Siachen Allowance to armed forces members	Siachen area of Ladakh	Rs. 42,500 per month

Section 202(4) option (sub-rule 3). An employee who has exercised the option under section 202(4) is entitled to exemption only for the allowances in sub-rule (1)(a) to (d) and in sub-rule (2) [Table: Sl. No. 10], to the extent and on any conditions specified there.