IOR/R/15/2/1471

The file contains mainly Government of India circular letters and memoranda issued mainly by the Finance Department, Foreign and Political Department and the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi. The circulars provide instructions and guidance about the grant of travelling allowances to Government of India employees for journeys on transfer and journeys on tour. The main file contents are:

• ‘Travelling etc., Allowances of Civil Officers serving under the Secretary of State, Government of India, or the High Commissioner for India when on duty in Europe, including the Near East, or America’, 1931, reprinted 1934;
• Proposed revision of the Government of India Supplementary Rules relating to travelling allowances, 1933;
• Entitlement to daily allowance, for employees touring on duty, 1933-1934, 1944;
• Revised procedure for road mileage allowance claims, 1934
• Rules regulating the grant of travelling allowance for journeys by air, 1934;
• Rules regulating the grant of travelling allowance for accompanying family members, 1934;
• Rates of daily allowance permissible for Persian Gulf officers travelling on duty in Persia, Egypt and Iraq, 1945.

The file also contains a few notes, statistical returns and correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent, Bahrain, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the Department of External Affairs and the Foreign and Political Department. The correspondence discusses diverse topics, including:

• An individual claim for travelling allowance by the Political Agent, Bahrain 1934;
• Daily allowances for farrashes employed by the Bahrain Agency, who accompany Persian Gulf officers on tours of duty in Iran and the Arab Coast, 1943-1945;
• Road mileage allowances for officers of the Bahrain Agency, 1933;
• Nil quarterly returns submitted by the Bahrain Agency for reimbursement of travelling expenses incurred by touring officers, 1945-1947;
• Transition from Government of India rules to British Foreign Office rules for the grant of travelling allowances, 1947-1948;
• Withdrawal of travelling allowance for the journey from India to places in Persia and the Persian Gulf, by new recruits joining their first place of appointment, 1933;
• Permissible sea and road routes between Kuwait, Basra and Karachi for claiming travelling and road mileage allowances, 1934-1935;
• Reductions in the rate of mileage allowance permissible for officers in Iran and for officers in the Persian Gulf travelling to Iran, 1941-1942.