No accommodation Certificate for HRA and conditions of applying for Government Accommodation
Dispensation of conditions of applying for Government Accommodation and furnishing of “No Accommodation Certificate” for admissibility of House Rent Allowance
File no.12034/1/2019- Pol. III
Government of India
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Directorate of Estates
“C” -wing, Nirman Bhawan
New Delhi, Dated : 08.04.2019
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject Dispensation of conditions of applying for Government Accommodation and furnishing of “No Accommodation Certificate” for admissibility of House Rent Allowance.
In pursuance of Ministry of Finance (Deptt. Of Expenditure) OM no. 2/5/2017- E.IIB, dated 05.03.2019 (copy enclosed) and in supersession of this Directorate’s OM number 12034 / 1/ 2007-Pol.III dated 14.11.2007, it has been decided that the conditions of applying for Government accommodation and furnishing of ‘No Accommodation Certificate (NAC)’ by Central Government employees, to become eligible for House Rent Allowance, are dispensed with for all places in the country, in respect of General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) under the control by Directorate of Estates, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs. Central Government employees will thus be eligible to draw HRA, lf they have not availed the facility of Government accommodation and for this they will not have to produce NAC.
2. These order shall be effective from 05.03.2019.
Encl. : As above
(Amita Gupta)
Deputy Director of Estates