Conveyance allowance of physically challenged teachers and non-teaching employees

 Conveyance allowance of physically challenged teachers and non-teaching employees of aided/sponsored schools

Content of Notification:

Government of West Bengal Directorate of School Education

(Grant-in-Aid Section) Bikash Bhawan, 7th floor, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700091

Memo No. 560-6A / 570-GA OM/47/GA/2020(PT)

Date: 25/7/22.

From: The Commissioner of School Education,West Bengal

To: The District Inspector of Schools (SE),All districts

Sub : Conveyance allowance of physically challenged teachers and non-teaching employees of aided/sponsored schools

It has been brought to the notice of the Government that some of the teachers and employees of aided/sponsored schools who are physically challenged are not getting conveyance allowance for some reason or the other. The physically challenged employees include orthopedically handicapped individuals with minimum of 40% permanent partial disabilities of either upper or lower limbs or together and blind Secondary teachers and non-teaching staff.

A letter was sent earlier vide No. 91-GA dated 08.02.2022 on the same subject to all District Inspector of Schools(SE).

In terms of G.O. no. 39-SE(Law) dated 14.01.2021 the amount of such conveyance allowance is 5% of basic pay subject to a maximum of Rs. 800/- per month w.e.f. 01.01.2020.

He is requested to release such allowance on a regular basis in favour of all such teachers and non-teaching employees who are in possession of valid certification of their disability indicating at least 40% permanent partial disabilities of either upper or lower limbs or together and blindness in case of Secondary teachers and non-teaching staff.

In all other cases where such teachers and employees are not getting conveyance allowance due to lack of certification District Inspector of Schools(SE) may be requested to take proactive steps in consultation with the designated medical authority, so that their conveyance allowance can be introduced or resumed, as the case may be, at the earliest.

He is also requested to send numbers of the eligible beneficiaries and those who are not getting conveyance allowance at present.