1. The Members of Parliament are provided rail travel facilities as per provisions of “The Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954” as amended from time to time. Based on the provisions of aforesaid Act, rail travel entitlements of Members of Parliament were last circulated in terms of Railway Board’s letter No. E[W]95/PS 5-7/12 dated 14.07.2000. Recently, Government has notified “The Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament [Amendment] Act, 2010 [No. 37 of 2010] in terms of Gazette Notification dated 22.09.2010 so as to revise the entitlements of Members of Parliament. Accordingly, revised entitlements of rail travel admissible as on date to Member of Parliament are as indicated below:
i] Free travel in First Class Air-Conditioned or Executive Class in any train with the spouse, if any, from any place in India to any other place in India.
ii] Free Air-Conditioned two-tier accommodation for one person to accompany the Member.
iii] A Member having no spouse has been allowed to take one person with him in place of spouse in AC-Ist Class/Executive Class in rail journey along with the companion already allowed in AC-2 tier.
iv] The spouse of a Member of Parliament shall be entitled to travel by railway in First Class Air-Conditioned or Executive Class in any train from the usual place to residence of the Member to Delhi and back any number of times. When Parliament is in session such journey by the spouse from usual place of residence of Member to Delhi and back may be partly by air and partly by rail subject to the condition that number of journeys by air shall not exceed eight in a year.
v] A Member who is blind or who is, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Council of States or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of the People, so incapacitated physically as to require the facility of an attendant shall be allowed to take an attendant with him in same class of rail journey in which he himself travels in lieu of the companion earlier allowed in AC-2 tier. This will be in addition to the spouse already allowed to accompany such Member in the AC-Ist Class/Executive Class of rail journey.
2. The above entitlements may be brought to the notice of all concerned.