The Committee on Allowances that recently submitted its report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission has suggested no hike in the transport allowance for the central government employees. The Committee on Allowances accepted the 7th Pay Commission recommendations about the Transport Allowance (TPTA) and said there will be no hike. The panel, however, decided to raise the House Rent Allowance or HRA to 30 per cent. Central government employees will now receive the travel allowance as per the 6th Pay Commission recommendations including Dearness Allowance (DA).
The government has divided transport allowance into two parts, one being CCA and the other one is TA. It is believed that this might be separated from DA and might be set on a fix slab.
The 7th Pay Commission made report, assuming that the rate of Dearness Allowance 125 percent at the time of implementation of the pay commission recommendation, i.e. on January 1 next year. Accordingly, central government employees will not get any hike in Transport Allowance on the time of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendation as the existing Transport Allowance figure automatically reached the Pay Commission revised Transport allowance figure after adding 125 percent DA.
The 7th Pay Commission has revised the Transport allowance (TPTA), which is given below:-
| Pay Level | Higher TPTA cities (Rs pm) | Other places (Rs pm) |
| 9 and above | 7200+ DA | 3600+ DA |
| 3 to 8 | 3600+ DA | 1800+ DA |
| 1 and 2 | 1350+ DA | 900+ DA |
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