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Govt Beneficiaries Can Now Fly In Pvt Airlines Also:LTC Rule Relaxed

[New Delhi]Central Govt Beneficiaries Can Now Fly In Pvt Airlines Also:LTC Rule Relaxed
Government servants were allowed to travel by air to visit Jammu & Kashmir (JK)+North East Region (NER)+ Andaman & Nicobar Islands (A&N) on LTC for a period of two years against conversion of one block of Home Town LTC.
The relaxation was given subject to air travel by Air India only.
On 28.11.2014,Government decided to allow travel by private airlines to visit Jammu & Kashmir under this special dispensation scheme subject to certain conditions.
As per Director Mukesh Chaturvedi (Establishment),The scheme was valid for a period of one year Only which expired on 27.11.2015.
3. It has now been decided to extend the scheme From 1st June upto 25 Sept of this year

Modi Govt May Allow Luxury Cruise Tours Under LTC Scheme

[Mumbai] Modi Govt May Allow Cruise Tours Under LTC Scheme
Aiming to increase cruise tourism, the Central Govt is mulling to include vacations on luxury ships under the Leave Travel Concession (LTC) scheme where government employees get their travel costs reimbursed.
Joint Secretary of Ministry of Tourism, Suman Billa said in a session on tourism at the Maritime India Summit .”We are looking at including cruise tours under the LTC scheme. Employees can go on cruise ships at government expense,”
He said such a move will shore up the sagging numbers of tourists opting for cruise tours and will be a huge boost for the sector.
Billa said for the five years between FY10 and FY14, there has been a 14 per cent decline in the number of tourists opting for cruise tours in the country, a trend the government wants to reverse.
In FY10, there were 55,000 domestic and 1.35 lakh foreign tourists who boarded cruise ships, which dropped to 45,000 and 70,000, respectively, in FY14,
Billa said India is best placed to take advantage of cruise tourism as it stands close to a busy route for cruise ships between the Middle East and South East Asian countries.