Govt mulls over extending LTC to government employees for visiting “some SAARC countries”

Paro International Airport, Bhutan

CAN you imagine an Indian bureaucrat disembarking at Paro airport and driving down to Thimpu, and then spending a week in Bhutan before coming back to New Delhi and getting the entire expenses reimbursed under Leave Travel Concession (LTC)? Maybe, this could be a reality sometime in future. In fact, a proposal to provide LTC to government employees to visit some SAARC countries has been at an initial stage of consideration, according to…