HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE

          HRA AS PER 7TH PAY

HRA AS PER 6TH PAY

   House rent allowance for employees of Odisha Government are calculated at the rate prescribed in the 6^th pay commission.

           The rate of HRA applicable to its employees basing on different cities is as follows.

Sl No	Name of the cities / towns	Rate of HRA admissible
1	BBSR & Cuttack (Urban Area)	20% of basic pay and grade pay
2	Rourkela, Berhampur, Sambalpur, puri, Baragarh, Brajarajnagar, Bhadrak, Balasore, Bolangir, Bhawanipatna, Barbil, Baripada, Dhenkanal, Jeypore, Jharsuguda, Jatni, Keonjhar, Paradeep, Rayagada, Sunabeda (Urban Areas)	10% of basic pay and grade pay
3	In other areas	5% of basic pay and grade pay

 

       Example: For an employee holding post of  GP 4200/- in the pre-revised scale of pay of 9300-34800 residing at Puri, if the basic pay of the employee is Rs 9,300/- then HRA shall be calculated as follows.

       10% of (basic +GP)= 0.1 X (9300+4200)= Rs 1,350/-

Some important rules relating to H.R.A.

1.     A Government employee staying in a hired accommodation / living in his own house within 8 Kms of his headquarters shall be eligible to H.R.A. as admissible. A Government employee staying in a rented accommodation (living in his own house at a place beyond 8 Kms of his Headquarters shall not be eligible for H.R.A.

[Note: For Urban Headsquarters, the Government employee staying in a hired accommodation/own house either within a radius of 8 KM from Headquarter or the limits of the Urban Local Body (Municipal Corporation, Municipality and Notified Area Council) will be eligible to draw House Rent Allowance on submission of a declaration to that effect in the annexure (available below).]

2.  A Government employee who is living in a house which belongs to him / her father or mother or owned by his wife or children or who is staying in a hired accommodation will be eligible to get house rent allowance as admissible to him/her. However, a Government servant sharing Government accommodation allotted by Government to another Government servant shall not be eligible for H.R.A.

3. If both the husband and wife are Government servants and are posted at the same Headquarters, H.R.A. will be payable to one of them. Similarly, H.R.A. will not be admissible to a State Government employee whose husband/wife is in receipt of H.R.A. or provided with accommodation by the Central Government or Reserve Bank of India, Nationalized Banks or Regional Rural Banks, Co-operative Organizations of State Government, autonomous body, local body, undertakings, companies etc. owned, controlled or aided by Central/State Government and such Government employees shall furnish a certificate in the prescribed form.

4. House Rent Allowance shall be admissible to a Government employee who refuses Government accommodation when offered or surrenders the same after occupying to move to his own house or hired accommodation. This will not be applicable to earmarked Government quarters. However, Government employees debarred from allotment of Government accommodation due to unauthorized subletting or for breach of allotment rules will not be eligible for H.R.A.

5. Grant of House Rent Allowance during leave and transfer will be regulated by the relevant provision of Rule 101 of Orissa Service Code. The allowance will be admissible during absence from headquarters on tour.

Rule 101 of OSC  is as follows           A house-rent allowance may be drawn up to a maximum period of four months by a Government servant who takes leave on average or half average pay or is transferred on temporary duty from the post to which the allowance is attached. (a)  If in the case of non-gazetted officers; the head of the office certifies that no extra cost has been caused to the Government on account of grant of the allowance to the Government servant and the Head of the Department gives a similar certificate in the case of gazetted Government servants and (b)  The authority sanctioning the leave or transfer, as the case may be, certifies that the Government servant. (i)  is likely to return on the expiry of his leave or temporary duty to the post to which the allowance is attached or to another post carrying a similar allowance and (ii) continues to incur the whole or a considerable part of the expense on rent to meet which the allowance was granted.

 

6. A Government employee shall continue to draw house rent allowance during joining time at the same rates at which he was drawing the allowance at the station from where he was transferred. Where, however, joining time is affixed to leave, payment of house rent allowance shall be regulated by the provision of Rule 101 of Orissa Service Code.

7. A Government employee who on transfer, has been permitted to retain Government accommodation at the old station on payment of normal rent or penal rent, will be eligible for House Rent Allowance at the new station, provided he is other-wise eligible for House Rent Allowance at the new station.

8. House Rent Allowance shall be admissible to a Government employees deputed on training provided the period of training is treated as duty and he has retained his family at the old station where Government accommodation has not been provided.

9. House Rent Allowance will also be admissible to the employee during the period of suspension if at the place of his Headquarters as fixed by the competent authority, Government accommodation has not been provided.

10.The grant of House Rent Allowance to the employees shall be made by the Head of Office on receipt of the certificate from him in the prescribed form along-with his first claim for House Rent Allowance and also in July of each year.

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