PROJECT ALLOWANCE (effective from 01.08.1997)

1.  With a view to compensate the employees for lack of facilities like housing, schooling, marketing and other social amenities at the project site, Project Allowance is payable to employees borne on the regular establishment of SJVN and trainees drawing pay in the regular pay scales other than muster roll, daily rated, work charged and casual employees as under:

Project Allowance shall not be admissible to employees who are eligible for Generation Incentive.

1.1 For the purpose of computing the Project Allowance, pay shall mean the basic pay and such other allowances as may be declared as pay for this purpose.

2.  The terms and conditions for admissibility of the Project Allowance are as under:

1.  Project Allowance is admissible to only such employees as are residing in the project area/the municipal or local limits of their place of posting or nearby locality, provided, however, the allowance may also be granted to the employees residing outside the project area/the municipal or local limits of their place of posting subject to the following conditions:

• They should be residing outside the Project area/ municipal or local limits of their place of posting due to non-availability of residential accommodation in the area and not because such an arrangement is more convenient to them.

• No facility of free or subsidized transport is available to such employees for journeys to and from their place of work.

2.  In case of those employees who are in receipt of House Rent Allowance, the amount of Project Allowance will be treated as reduced to 50% of the rates specified above. However, the aforesaid deduction shall not apply in case of employees drawing HRA/leased accommodation for retention of family at a place other than the place of posting permitted by the Management under separate Rules on the subject.

3.  The payment of Project Allowance in different situations like leave, training, suspension etc. is to be regulated in the following manner:

1. The allowance will not be admissible during the period of transfer out of the project area exceeding two months or during leave for a period exceeding two months provided that the allowance may be paid for another period not exceeding two months if the extended period of leave is on medical certificate.

2. During the period of training of the employees away from the headquarters, they would be allowed to draw the allowance at the admissible rate for a period upto two months unless the headquarters have been changed during such period. For the period beyond two months during training, the payment of the allowance would be continued by the employee furnishing certificate to the effect that their family continued to reside at the headquarters for the period for which the allowance is claimed.

3. During the period of suspension, the allowance would be admissible only so long as the headquarters of the employee under suspension continues to be located in a place which qualifies for payment of this allowance subject to the employee furnishing certificate to the effect that he or his family members continued to reside at the headquarters for the period for which the allowance is claimed.

4. Family for the above purpose would mean the employee's wife/husband, children and other persons residing with and wholly dependant upon him/her. The husband/wife/children/person having an independent source of income would not be treated as a member belonging to the family of the employee except when such income including pension (exclusive of temporary increase in pension) and pension equivalent of death cum retirement benefits does not exceed Rs.2500/-

3.  Since the project allowance is intended to primarily compensate the employees for lack of infrastructural facilities, the allowance will be withdrawn by the management at its absolute discretion in a phased manner depending upon amenities being introduced at the project site.

4.  The competent authority for interpreting these Rules is Director (personnel) whose decision is final.

5.  The management reserves the right to modify, cancel, add or amend any of these rules at any time without giving any notice or assigning any reason there for.